4/4 (A or G) Irish Rover

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In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and six we set sail from the coal quay at Cork

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We were Sailing away with a cargo of bricks from the grand City Hall in New York

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We'd an Elegant craft, she was rigged fore and aft and how the trade winds drove her

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She had Twenty three masts and she stood several blasts and they called her the Irish Ro-ver

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There was Barney McGee from the banks of the lee there was Hogan from County Tyrone

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There was Johnny McGurk who was scared stiff of work

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and a chap from Westmeath named Mallone

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There was slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule and fighting Bill Tracy from Do-ver

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And your man, Mick McMann from the banks of the Bann was the skipper on the Irish Ro-ver

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We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags We had two million barrels of bone.

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We had three million bales of old nanny goat tails We had four million barrels of stone.

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We had five million hogs and six million dogs and seven million barrels of por-ter

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We had eight million sides of old blind horses hides in the hold of the Irish Ro-ver

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We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out and our ship lost her way in the fog

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And the whole of the crew was reduced down to two Just me self and the Captain's old dog

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Then the ship struck a rock (thump) Oh, lord what a shock and nearly tumbled o - ver

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Turned nine times around … and the poor old dog was drowned … I'm the

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last of the Irish Ro - ver

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