The Irish Rover

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The Irish Rover és una cançó tradicional irlandesa, popularitzada per The Dubliners i The Pogues en enregistrar i distribuir un single del tema arranjat conjuntament. La cançó narra el naufragi d'un vaixell anomenat The Irish Rover.

[edita] Lletra

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