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The Ballad of Ó Bruadair / Out on the Ocean
Dan Milner, Gabriel Donohue, Joanie Madden, John Doyle, Mick Moloney, Robbie O’Connell, Susan McKeown, Tim Collins
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When O'Bruadair, the captain
Shook a sword across the sea,
Rollin' glory on the ocean
I had a mind o'bruadair
Would make an earl of me.
Rollin' glory on the ocean
So I shut my eyes on women,
Forgot their sturdy hips,
And yet I stuffed my pockets
By playing on their lips,
But before i'd give them bundles,
I quickly took to ships.
Rollin' glory on the ocean
Out there we fought with cutlass. With blunderbus and gun;
Rollin' glory on the ocean With boarding and with broadside,
We made the dutchmen run.
Rollin' glory on the ocean Then down among the captains In their
green skin shoes, I sought for Hugh O'Bruadair And got but little
news, Till i shook him by the hand In the
bay of Santa Cruz. Rollin' glory on the ocean
O'Bruadair said kindly' "You're a fresh blade from mayo.
" Rollin' glory on the ocean "So come among my captains,
To achill back we go.
" Rollin' glory on the ocean "Although those spanish beauties Are
dark and not so dear, I'd rather taste in Mayo,
With april on the air, One bracing tender female;
So swing your canvas here:
rollin' glory on the ocean "There's no man," said a stranger,
"whose hand i'd sooner grip: Rollin' glory on the ocean "Well.
I'm your man," said bruadair, "and you're aboard my ship.
" Rollin' glory on the ocean They drank to deeper friendship In ocean
roguery, They rolled ashore together, But between yourself and me,
We found O'Bruadair danglin' Within an
airy tree. Ghosting glory from the ocean