English subtitles for clip: File:Irish Rover - Celtic Aire - United States Air Force Band.mp3

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In the year of our Lord 1806,
we set sail from the cold quay of Cork.

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We were sailed in away
with a cargo of bricks

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for the Grand City Hall in New York.

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We'd an elegant craft,
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 withstood several blasts

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And we called her the Irish Rover.

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There was Barney McGee
from the banks of the Lee,

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there was Hogan from County Tyrone

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There was Jonny McGurk
who was scared stiff of work

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and the chap from Westmeath
named Malone.

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There was Slugger O'Toole
who was drunk as a rule

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and Fighting Bill Treacy from Dover.

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And your man, Mick McCann
from the banks of the Bann

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was the skipper of the Irish Rover.

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We had one million bags
of the best Sligo rags

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we had two million barrels of bone.

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We had three million bales
of old nanny goats' tails,

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we had four million barrels of stone

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We had five million dogs,
and six million hogs,

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and seven million barrels of porter.

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We had eight million sides
of old blind horses hides

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in the hold of the Irish Rover.

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We had sailed seven years
when the measles broke out,

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and our ship lost her way in the fog.

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And the whole of the crew
was reduced down to two,

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'Twas meself and the Captain's old dog

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(Bark-bark)

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Then the ship struck a rock,
Oh Lord! what a shock

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And nearly tumbled over

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Nine times turned around,

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then the poor old dog was drowned

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(Dog howling)

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I'm the last of the Irish Rover.