Irish Rover

Since it was St. Paddy’s day just a couple days ago, we figured we’d do an Irish song this Sunday. We’re in a hotel on our way to a gig in Chicago (see you Chicagoans at Uncommon Ground tonight, 3/19!) so we’re a little crammed in there, but we made it work! Thanks to our Cidizens on Patreon who made this video possible! If you’re enjoying our Sunday Morning videos, consider becoming a Cidizen on our Patreon page in exchange for extra goodies and our eternal gratitude: Take guitar lessons from Toni Lindgren! Get our album on iTunes: Players: Guitar: Toni Lindgren Dobro: Shane Akers Bass: Ryan Hays Drums: Zach Schmidt MAILING LIST: WEBSITE: FACEBOOK: TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: Irish Rover lyrics In the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and six We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork We were sailin’ away with a cargo of bricks For the grand city hall of New York Twas an elegant craft, she was rigged fore-and-aft And oh, how the wild winds drove her She had twenty-seven masts and withstood several blasts And we called her the Irish Rover There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee There was Hogan from County Tyrone There was Charlie McGurk who was scared stiff of work And a chap from Westmeath called Malone There was Slugger O’Toole who was drunk as a rule And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover And your man, Mick McCann from the banks of the Bann Was skipper of the Irish Rover We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags We had two million barrels of bones We had three million sides of old blind horses hides We had four million barrels of stones We had five million hogs, we had six million dogs And seven million barrels of porter We had eight million bales of old nanny goats’ tails In the hold of the Irish Rover We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out And the ship lost her way in a fog And that whale of the crew was reduced down to two Just me-self and the captain’s old dog Then the ship struck a rock, lord what a shock The boat it turned right over She turned nine times around, and the poor old dog was drowned I’m the last of the Irish Rover