[ti:The Rocky Road To Dublin]
[ar:The Dubliners]
[al:At Their Best]
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[00:00.00]The Rocky Road To Dublin - The Dubliners
[00:07.98]While in the merry month of may from me home I started
[00:11.22]Left the girls of tuam so sad and broken hearted
[00:13.73]Saluted father dear kissed me darling mother
[00:16.43]Drank a pint of beer me grief and tears to smother
[00:19.19]Then off to reap the corn leave where I was born
[00:21.65]Cut a stout black thorn to banish ghosts and goblins
[00:24.30]Bought a pair of brogues rattling o'er the bogs
[00:26.92]And frighten all the dogs on the rocky road to dublin
[00:29.83]One two three four five
[00:31.10]Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
[00:33.66]All the way to dublin whack follol de rah
[00:36.75]In mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary
[00:39.32]Started by daylight next morning light and airy
[00:42.11]Took a drop of pure to keep me heart from sinking
[00:44.52]That's a paddy's cure whenever he's on drinking
[00:47.40]See the lassies smile laughing all the while
[00:49.70]At me curious style 'twould set your heart a bubblin'
[00:52.96]Asked me was I hired wages I required
[00:54.89]Till I was almost tired of the rocky road to dublin
[00:57.55]One two three four five
[00:59.16]Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
[01:01.59]All the way to dublin whack follol de rah
[01:04.73]In dublin next arrived I thought it such a pity
[01:07.11]To be soon deprived a view of that fine city
[01:09.57]So then I took a stroll all among the quality
[01:12.24]Me bundle it was stole all in a neat locality
[01:14.67]Something crossed me mind when I looked behind
[01:17.06]No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin'
[01:19.62]Crying after the rogue they said me connaught brogue
[01:22.35]Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to dublin
[01:25.00]One two three four five
[01:26.23]Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
[01:28.65]All the way to dublin whack follol de rah
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[01:31.55]From there I got away me spirits never falling
[01:33.96]Landed on the quay just as the ship was sailing
[01:36.67]The captain at me roared said that no room had he
[01:39.17]When I jumped aboard a cabin found for paddy
[01:41.53]Down among the pigs played some hearty rigs
[01:43.90]Danced some hearty jigs the water round me bubbling
[01:46.86]When off holyhead I wished meself was dead
[01:49.26]Or better for instead on the rocky road to dublin
[01:52.02]One two three four five
[01:53.23]Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
[01:55.63]All the way to dublin whack follol de rah
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[01:58.60]The boys of liverpool when we safely landed
[02:01.14]Called meself a fool I could no longer stand it
[02:04.10]Blood began to boil temper I was losing
[02:06.24]Poor old erin's isle they began abusing
[02:08.35]Hurrah me soul says I me shillelagh I let fly
[02:11.23]Galway boys were by and saw I was a hobble in
[02:14.13]With a load hurray joined in the affray
[02:16.15]Quickly cleared the way for the rocky road to dublin
[02:19.12]One two three four five
[02:20.25]Hunt the hare and turn her down
[02:21.86]The rocky road and all the way to dublin
[02:23.82]Whack follol de rah