Rocky Road To Dublin chords by Luke Kelly
Verse 1
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While in the merry month
of May from me home I started
Left the girls of Tuam so sad
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and broken hearted
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Saluted father dear,
kissed me darling mother
Drank a pint of beer, me grief and
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tears to smother
Then off to reap the corn,
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leave where I was born
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Cut a stout black thorn to banish
ghosts and goblins
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Bought a pair of brogues
rattling o'er the bogs
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And fright'ning all the dogs on
the rocky road to Dublin
Verse 2
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One, two, three four, five
Hunt the Hare and turn
her down the rocky road
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all the way to Dublin,
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Whack follol de rah
Verse 3
In Mullingar that night I rested
limbs so weary
Started by daylight next
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morning blithe and early
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Took a drop of pure to keep
me heartfrom sinking
Thats a Paddy's cure whenev
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er he's on drinking
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See the lassies smile,
laughing all the while
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At me curious style, 'twould set
your heart a bubblin'
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Asked me was I hired, wages I required
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I was almost tired of the rocky
Verse 4
road to Dublin
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One, two, three four, five
Hunt the Hare and turn
her down the rocky road
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all the way to Dublin,
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Whack follol de rah
Verse 5
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In Dublin next arrived, I thought it such a pity
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To be soon deprived a view
of that fine city
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So then I took a stroll,
all among the quality
Me bundle it was stole,
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all in a neat locality
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Something crossed me mind,
when I looked behind
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No bundle could I find upon me
stick a wobblin'
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Enquiring for the rogue,
they said me Connaught brogue
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Wasn't much in vogue on
the rocky road to Dublin
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One, two, three four, five Hunt the Hare
Verse 6
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and turn
her down the rocky road
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all the way to Dublin, Whack follol de rah
Verse 7
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From there I got away, me
spirits never falling
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Landed on the quay, just as the
ship was sailing
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The Captain at me roared,
said that no room had he
When I jumped aboard,
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a cabin found for Paddy
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Down among the pigs,
played some hearty rigs
Danced some hearty jigs,
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the wa ter round me bubbling
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When off Holyhead I wished
meself was dead
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Or better for instead on the
rocky road to Dublin
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One, two, three four, five Hunt
Verse 8
the Hare and turn
her down the rocky road
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all the way to Dublin, Whack follol de rah
Verse 9
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Well the boys of Liverpool,
when we safely landed
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Called meself a fool,
I could no longer stand it
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Blood began to boil, temper I was losing
Poor old Erin's Isle they
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began abusing
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"Hurrah me soul" says
I, me Shillelagh I let fly
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Some Galway boys were nigh and
saw I was a hobble in
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With a load "hurray !" joined in the affray
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We quitely cleared the way for
the rocky road to Dublin
Verse 10
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One, two, three four, five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down
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the rocky road and all
the way to Dublin
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Whack follol de rah
Rocky Road To Dublin
Luke Kelly
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