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While in the merry month of may from me home I started |
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Left the girls of tuam so sad and broken hearted |
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Saluted father dear kissed me darling mother |
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Drank a pint of beer me grief and tears to smother |
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Then off to reap the corn 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 frightning all the dogs on the rocky road to dublin |
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One two three four five |
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Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road |
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all the way to dublin Whack follol de rah |
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In mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary |
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Started by daylight next morning blithe and early |
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Took a drop of pure to keep me heartfrom sinking |
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Thats a paddy's cure whenever 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 road to dublin |
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One two three four five |
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Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road |
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all the way to dublin whack follol de rah |
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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 |
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Me bundle it was stole 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 |
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Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road |
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all the way to dublin whack follol de rah |
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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 |
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When I jumped aboard a cabin found for paddy |
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Down among the pigs played some hearty rigs |
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Danced some hearty jigs the water 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 |
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Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road |
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all the way to dublin whack follol de rah |
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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 |
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Poor old erin's isle they 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 |
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One two three four five |
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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 |
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