Irish Rover chords by The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Verse 1
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In the year of our Lord,
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eighteen hundred and six,
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We set sail from the Coal Quay of Cork
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We were sailing away
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with a cargo of bricks
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For the grand City Hall in New York
We'd an elegant craft,
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it was rigged 'fore and aft
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And how the trade winds drove her
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She had twenty- three masts and
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she stood several blasts
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And they called her the Irish Rover
Verse 2
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There was Barney Magee from
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the banks of the Lee
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There was Hogan from County Tyrone
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There was Johnny McGurk who
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was scared stiff of work
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And a chap from Westmeath
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named Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole
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who was drunk as a rule
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And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover
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And your man Mick McCann, from
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the banks of the Bann
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Was the skipper on the Irish Rover
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Verse 3
We had one million bags
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of the best Sligo rags
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We had two million barrells of bone
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We had three million bales of
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old nanny goats' tails
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We had four million barrells of stone
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We had five million hogs and six million dogs
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And seven million barrells of porter
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We had eight million sides of
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old blind horses' hides
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In the hold of the Irish Rover
Verse 4
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We had sailed seven years
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when the measles broke out
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And our ship lost her way in a fog
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And the whole of the crew was
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reduced down to two
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'Twas myself and the
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captain's old dog
Then the ship struck a rock,
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oh, Lord what a shock
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And nearly tumbled over
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Turned nine times around then the
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poor old dog was drowned
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I'm the last of the Irish Rover
Irish Rover
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
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