Skip to content
Lyric
Dive
Public playlists
My playlists
Search
Sign in
Rocky Road to Dublin
Seth Staton Watkins
Popularity ยท Low
+
๐ฌ๐ง English ยท Original
0
0
Listen
YouTube
1
2
3
0:00 / 0:00
Loading YouTube player...
Lyrics offset
Synced
Lyrics
Original
Translation
Bilingual
In the merry month o' June, from me home I started
Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted
Saluted Father dear, kissed me darlin' mother
Drink a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother
Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born
Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins
A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs
Frightenin' 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 fol lol le rah
In Mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary
Started by daylight, my spirits bright and airy
And took a drop of the pure, keep me heart from sinkin'
That's the Paddy's cure whenever he's on drinkin'
To see the lassie's smile, laughin' all the while
At me curious style, would set your heat a bubblin'
He asked if I was hired, wages I required
'Till I was nearly 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 fol lol le rah
In Dublin next arrrived, I thought it such a pity
To be so soon deprived a view of that fine city
Well then I took a stroll, all among the quality
Bundle it was stole, all in a neat locality
Somethin' crossed me mind, when I looked behind
No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin'
Inquirin' for the rogue, said 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 fol lol le rah
From there I got away, me spirits never fell
I landed on the quay just as the ship was sailing
The captain at me roared, said that no room had he
When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy
Down among the pigs, played some funny rigs
Danced some hardy jigs, the water 'round me bubblin'
Off to Holyhead, wish meself was dead
Better far 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 fol lol le 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 losin'
Poor old Erin's isle they began abusin'
"Hurrah me soul" says I, me shillelagh I let fly
Some Gallway boy were nigh and saw I was a hobblin'
With a loud hooray, joined in the affray (hooray)
We quickly clear 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 fol lol le rah
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, whack fol lol le rah
Whack fol lol le rah
Whack fol lol le rah
ย