Collection of Irish Song Lyrics
Goodbye Mick
The ships it sails in half an hour
to cross the broad Atlantic
Me friends are standing on the quay
With Grief and sorrow frantic
Im just about to sail away in
The good ship Dan OLeary
The anchors are weighed and the gangway's up
Im leaving Tipperary
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And it's goodbye Mick and goodbye Pat
And goodbye Kate and Mary
The anchors are weighed and the gangway's up
Im leaving Tipperary
And now the steam is blowing off
I have no more to say
I'm bound for New York City, boys
Three thousand miles away
In my portmanteau here I have
some cabbage Beans and bacon
And if ye's think I can't eat that
Well there's where you're mistaken
For the ship will play with pitch and toss
For half a dozen farthings
I'll roll my bundle on me back
And walk to Castle Gardens
Now won't I come that Yankee chat
I guess I'm calculatin'
Come liquor up, ol' soggy boy
When an old friend I am treatin'
I'm deep in love with Molly Burke
Like an ass is fond of clover
I'll send for her when I get there
That's if she will come over
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Then fare ye well, old Erin dear
To part me heart does ache, yea
From Carrickfergus to Cape Clear
I'll never see your equal
Although to foreign parts we're bound
Where cannibals may eat us
We'll ne'er forget the holy ground
The poteen and potatoes
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When good Saint Paddy banished snakes
He shook them from his garment
He never thought we'd go abroad
To live upon such varmint
Nor quit this land where whiskey grew
To wear the Yankee button
Take vinegar for mountain dew and
Toads for mountain mutton
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