The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Irish rover

In the ^Gyear of our Lord eighteen ^Chundred and six We set ^Gsail from the Cobh quay of ^DCork We were ^Gsailing away with a cargo of ^Cbricks For the ^Ggrand city ^Dhall in New ^GYork Twas an ^Gelegant craft, she was ^Drigged fore and aft And ^Ghow the trade winds ^Ddrove her She had ^Gtwenty-three masts and she ^Emstood several ^Cblasts And they ^Gcalled her the Irish ^D7Ro-^Gver

There was ^GBarney McGee from the ^Cbanks of the Lee There was ^GHogan from County ^DTyrone There was ^GJohnny McGuirk who was ^Cscared stiff of work And a ^Gchap from West^Dmeath named ^GMalone There was ^GSlugger O'Toole who was ^Ddrunk as a rule And ^Gfighting Bill Tracy from ^DDover And your ^Gman Mick McCann from the ^Embanks of the ^CBann Was the ^Gskipper of the Irish ^D7Ro-^Gver

We had ^Gone million bags of the ^Cbest Sligo rags We had ^Gtwo million barrels of ^Dstones We had ^Gthree million sides of old ^Cblind horses hides We had ^Gfour million ^Dbarrels of ^Gbone We had ^Gfive million hogs, ^Dsix million dogs ^GSeven million barrels of ^Dporter We had ^Geight million bales of old ^Emnanny goats ^Ctails In the ^Ghold of the Irish ^D7Ro-^Gver

We had ^Gsailed seven years when the ^Cmeasles broke out And our ^Gship lost it's way in the ^Dfog Then the ^Gwhole of the crew was ^Creduced down to two Just ^Gmyself and the ^Dcaptain’s old ^Gdog The ^Gship struck a rock, oh ^DLord what a shock And ^Gnearly tumbled ^Dover It turned ^Gnine times around and the ^Empoor dog was ^Cdrowned I'm the ^Glast of the Irish ^D7Ro-^Gver