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(Recruiting Sergeant) |
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As I was walking down the road |
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A feeling fine and larky oh |
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A recruiting sergeant came up to me |
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Says he, you'd look fine in khaki oh |
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For the King he is in need of men |
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Come read this proclamation oh |
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A life in Flanders for you then |
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Would be a fine vacation oh |
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That may be so says I to him |
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But tell me sergeant dearie-oh |
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If I had a pack stuck upon my back |
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Would I look fine and cheerie oh |
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For they'd have you train and drill until |
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They had you one of the Frenchies oh |
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It may be warm in Flanders |
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But it's draughty in the trenches oh |
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The sergeant smiled and winked his eye |
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His smile was most provoking oh |
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He twiddled and twirled his wee mustache |
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Says he, I know you're only joking oh |
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For the sandbags are so warm and high |
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The wind you won't feel blowing oh |
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Well I winked at a cailin passing by |
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Says I, what if it's snowing oh |
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Come rain or hail or wind or snow |
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I'm not going out to Flanders oh |
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There's fighting in Dublin to be done |
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Let your sergeants and your commanders go |
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Let Englishmen fight English wars |
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It's nearly time they started oh |
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I saluted the sergeant a very good night |
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And there and then we parted oh |
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(The Rocky Road to Dublin) |
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(Galway Races) |
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As I went down to Galway Town |
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To seek for recreation |
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On the seventeenth of August |
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Me mind being elevated |
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There were passengers assembled |
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With their tickets at the station |
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And me eyes began to dazzle |
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And they off to see the races |
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With me wack fol the do fol |
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The diddle idle day |
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There were passengers from Limerick |
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And passengers from Nenagh |
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The boys of Connemara |
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And the Clare unmarried maiden |
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There were people from Cork City |
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Who were loyal, true and faithful |
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Who brought home the Fenian prisoners |
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From dying in foreign nations |
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With me wack fol the do fol |
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The diddle idle day |
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And it's there you'll see the pipers |
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And the fiddlers competing |
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And the sporting wheel of fortune |
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And the four and twenty quarters |
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And there's others without scruple |
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Pelting wattles at poor Maggie |
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And her father well contented |
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And he gazing at his daughter |
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With me wack fol the do fol |
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The diddle idle day |
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With me wack fol the do fol |
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The diddle idle day |
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And it's there you'll see the jockeys |
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And they mounted on so stably |
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The pink, the blue, the orange, and green |
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The colors of our nation |
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The time it came for starting |
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All the horses seemed impatient |
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Their feet they hardly touched the ground |
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The speed was so amazing! |
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With me wack fol the do fol |
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The diddle idle day |
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There was half a million people there |
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Of all denominations |
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The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew, the Presbyterian |
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Yet there was no animosity |
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No matter what persuasion |
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But failte hospitality |
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Inducing fresh acquaintance |
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With me wack fol the do fol |
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The diddle idle day |
