The Rocky Road To Dublin (通往都柏林的碎石路) - Paddy Reilly

In the merry month of June

Spent from my home I started

Left the girls of Tuam

So sad and broken hearted

Saluted father dear

Kissed me darling mother

Drank a pint of beer

Grief and tears to smother

Then off to reap the corn

Leave where I was born

Cut a stout blackthorn

To banish ghost and goblin

Bought a pair of brogues

I rattled o'er the bogs

And frightened all the dogs

On the rocky road to Dublin

One two three four five

Hunt the hare and turn her

Down the rocky road

And all the ways to Dublin

Whackfolloldera

Cover her sing

When in mullingar that night

I rested limbs so weary

Started by daylight

Spairy light and dairy

Took a drop of the pure

To keep my heart from sinking

That's a parish's cure

Whene'er he's on for drinking

To see the lasses smile

Laughing all the while

At my curious style

Twould set your heart a bubbling

Asked if I was hired

The wages I required

I was almost tired

Of the rocky road to Dublin

One two three four five

Hunt the hare and turn her

Down the rocky road

And all the ways to Dublin

Whackfolloldera

Where in Dublin next arrived

I thought it be a pity

To be so soon deprived

A view of that fine city

So then I took a stroll

Tip among the quality

Bundle it was stole

In a neat locality

Something crossed my mind

Then I looked behind

No bundle could I find

Upon my stick a wobbling

Enquiring for the rogue

Said my connacht brogue

Wasn't much in vogue

On the rocky road to Dublin

One two three four five

Hunt the hare and turn her

Down the rocky road

And all the ways to Dublin

Whackfolloldera

Well from there I got away

My spirits never failing

Landed on the quay

Just how the ship was sailing

Captain at me roared

Said that no room had he

When I jumped aboard

A cabin found for paddy

Down among the pigs

I played some funny rigs

Danced some hearty jigs

The water round me bubbling

When off holyhead

I wished myself was dead

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