Paddy Goes To Holyhead - Seldom Sober
Oh sing a song for Ireland my young love said to me
the hills of Connemara Banks of my lovely Lee
so I tuned up my fiddle in the town of Ballybay
oh sing for me and think of me she mournfully did say
sure I'm an Ulster Orangeman from Erin's Isle I came
pure old Dicay Riley I'm still haunted by your name
I am a little beggarman and beggin' I have been
in Dr. Johnson's motorcar I'll take you home Kathleen.
I've been a wild rover and I've been seldom sober
drank many of pints topped up with foam
I tramped the world over from Brisbane to Dover
but I long to be back home.
Limerick you're a lady in the marry month of may
as I rode out to Galway-Town me heart is growing grey
If I were King of Ireland and all things at my will
I followed Captain Farrell and young Eamonn of the hill
a long way to Tipperary a long way from Clare to here
now I curse the time it takes to reach my Cavan girl so fair
tis of a brave young highwayman this story I will tell
you may talk and write and boast about and bid your last farewell
I've been a wild rover and I've been seldom sober
drank many of pints topped up with foam
I tramped the world over from Brisbane to Dover
but I long to be back home.
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