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In the merry month of June,from me home I started,Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken-hearted,Saluted father dear, kissed me darlin' mother,Drank a pint of beerMy grief and tears to smother.Then off to reap the cornand leave where I was born,Cut a stout black-thorn to banish ghosts and goblins,A brand new pair of broguesI rattled o'er the bogs,Frightened all the dogson the rocky road to Dublin.CHORUS:One two three four five,hunt the hare and turn her,Down the rocky road and all the way to Dublin,Whack fol lal de da!In Mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary,Started by daylight next morning light and airy,Took a drop of the pureTo keep me heart from sinking,That's the Paddy's cure,When'er he's on for drinking,To see the lasses smile, laughing all the while,At me curious stylewould set your heart a bubbling,They asked if I was hired, the wages I required,Till I was nearly tiredof the rocky road to Dublin.Chorus.In Dublin next arrived, I thought it such a pity,To be so soon deprived a view of that fine city,Then I took a stroll - all among the quality,Me bundle it was stole in a neat locality:Something crossed me mind,then I looked behind,No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin',Inquiring for the rogue,they said me Connaught brogue,Wasn't much in vogueon the rocky road to DublinChorus.From there I got away me spirits never failing,Landed on the quay as 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 bubblin',When off to Holyhead I wished meself was dead,Or better far instead,the rocky road to DublinThe boys of Liverpool, when we safely landed,Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it,Blood began to boil, temper I was losin',Poor old Eierann's isle they began abusin','Hurrah me soul' says I, shillelagh I let fly,Galway boys were by, saw I was a hobble in,then with a loud hurrah, They joined in the affray,We quickly cleared the wayfor the rocky road to DublinChorus.
Cruachan The Rocky Road To Dublin