Rocky Road To Dublin - The Dubliners.mp3

[00:07.74]While in the merry month of May, from me home I started
[00:11.22]Left the girls of Tuam so sad and broken hearted
[00:13.71]Saluted father dear, kissed me darling mother
[00:16.47]Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother
[00:18.99]Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born
[00:21.66]Cut a stout black thorn to banish ghosts and goblins
[00:24.63]Bought a pair of brogues rattling o'er the bogs
[00:26.85]And fright'ning all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin
[00:29.91]One, two, three, four, five,
[00:31.14]Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
[00:33.87]All the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah
[00:36.57]In Mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary
[00:39.39]Started by daylight next morning blithe and early
[00:42.00]Took a drop of pure to keep me heart from sinking
[00:44.64]That's a Paddy's cure whenever he's on drinking
[00:47.04]See the lassies smile, laughing all the while
[00:49.71]At me curious style, 'twould set your heart a bubblin'
[00:52.38]Asked me was I hired, wages I required
[00:55.14]I was almost tired of the rocky road to Dublin
[00:57.84]One, two, three, four, five
[00:59.10]Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
[01:01.77]All the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah
[01:04.38]In Dublin next arrived, I thought it such a pity
[01:06.99]To be soon deprived a view of that fine city
[01:09.69]So then I took a stroll, all among the quality
[01:12.18]Me bundle it was stole, all in a neat locality
[01:14.73]Something crossed me mind, when I looked behind
[01:17.10]No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin'
[01:19.65]Inquiring for the rogue, they said me Connaught brogue
[01:22.26]Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin
[01:25.08]One, two, three, four, five
[01:26.28]Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
[01:28.92]All the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah
[01:31.23]From there I got away, me spirits never falling
[01:34.26]Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailing
[01:36.72]The Captain at me roared, said that no room had he
[01:39.24]When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy
[01:41.64]Down among the pigs, played some hearty rigs
[01:44.13]Danced some hearty jigs, the water round me bubbling
[01:46.74]When off Holyhead, I wished meself was dead
[01:49.08]Or better for instead on the rocky road to Dublin
[01:52.08]One, two, three, four, five
[01:53.25]Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
[01:55.92]All the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah
[01:58.26]Well, the boys of Liverpool, when we safely landed
[02:01.26]Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it
[02:03.81]Blood began to boil, temper I was losing
[02:06.30]Poor old Erin's Isle they began abusing
[02:08.67]"Hurrah me soul" says I, me Shillelagh I let fly
[02:11.16]Some Galway boys were nigh and saw I was a hobble in
[02:13.80]With a load "Hurray" joined in the affray
[02:16.20]We quietly cleared the way for the rocky road to Dublin
[02:19.17]One, two, three, four, five
[02:20.34]Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
[02:22.83]And all the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah