The Rocky Road to Dublin
Pogues

'Twas in the merry month of June from me home I started

Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted

Saluted father dear, kissed me darling mother

Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother

Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born

Cut the stout black thorn to be on the shores to Dublin

Brand new pair of brogues rattlin' o'er the bogs

Fightin' 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 way to Dublin, whack follol de rah

In Mullingar that night I rested tired and weary

Left the room next morning feeling bright and airy

Had a drop of the pure to keep me heart from sinking

That's a Paddy's cure whene'er he's on the drinking

See the lassies smile, laughing all the while

At me curious style, 'twould set your heart a bubblin'

Asked me was I hired, wages I required

Till I was sick and 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 way to Dublin, whack follol de rah

In Dublin next arrived I thought it such a pity

To be so soon deprived a view of that fine city

When I took a stroll all among the quality

Me bundle it was stole in the neat locality

Something crossed me mind when I looked behind

No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin'

Asking for the rogue, they called me Connaught 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 way to Dublin, whack follol de rah

From there I got away, me spirits never failing

Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailing.

The Captain at me roared that no more room had he

When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy

Down among the pigs, played some hearty rigs

Danced some hearty jigs, the water round me bubblin'

When off Holyhead wished that I was dead

Or better for instead on the rocky road to Dublin

One, two, three four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road

And all the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah

The boys of Liverpool, when we safely landed

Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it

Blood began to boil, temper I was losing

Poor old Erin's Isle they began abusing

Hurrah me soul says I, me Shillelagh I let fly

Galway boys were nigh and saw I was a hobblin'

With a loud hurray! joined in the affray

Quietly cleared the way for the rocky road to Dublin

One, two, three four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down

The rocky road and all the way to Dublin

Whack follol de rah


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