Bungle Rye Traditional (Album Version) - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

Now Jack was a sailor who roamed on the town

And she was a damsel who skipped up and down

Said the damsel to Jack as she passed him by

Would you care for to purchase

Some quare bungle rye roddy rye

Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

Thought Jack to himself

Now what can this be

But the finest of whiskey from far Germany

Smuggled up in a basket and sold on the sly

And the name that it goes by

Is quare bungle rye roddy rye

Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

Jack gave her a pound and he thought nothing strange

She said hold the basket till I round for your change

Jack looked in the basket and a child did spy

Oh begorrah said Jack

This is quare bungle rye roddy rye

Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

Now to get the child christened was

Jack's next intent

For to get the child christened

To the parson he went

Says the parson to Jack

What will he go by

Begorrah says Jack

Call him quare bungle rye roddy rye

Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

Said the parson to Jack

That's really a queer name

Pubby down is that Jack queer way

He came

Smuggled up in a basket and sold on the sly

And the name that it goes by

Is quare bungle rye roddy rye

Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

Now all you born sailors who roam on the town

Beware of those damsels who skip up and down

Take a bee in their basket as they pass you by

Or else they may pull you

Some quare bungle rye roddy rye

Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye