The Rocky Road To Dublin (Traditional)

<br>In the merry month of June from my home I started<br>left the girls of Taum nearly brokenhearted saluted me father dear,<br>kissed me darling mother drank a pint of beer,<br>my grief and tears to smother then off to reap the corn,<br>leave where I was born cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblin,<br>brand-new pair of brogues,<br>rattling o`er the bogs frightening all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin.<br><br>In Mullingar last night, I rested limbs so weary started by daylight next morning bright<br>and early took a drop of the pure to keep me heart from sinking<br>that`s the daddy`s cure when he`s on the drinking see the lassies smile,<br>laughing all the while at me darling style, would set your heart a-bubblin` asked me was I hired,<br>wages I required `til I was almost tired of the rocky road to Dublin.<br><br>[Chorus:]<br>Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road and all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-la-de-da!<br><br>In Dublin next arrived, I thought it such a pity to be so soon deprived a view of that fine city<br>decided to take a stroll all among the quality bundle,<br>it was stole in that neat locality something crossed my mind when I looked behind<br>no bundle could I find upon me stick a-wobblin` crying for a rogue said me<br>connaught brogue wasn`t much in-vogue on the rocky road to Dublin.<br><br>From there I got away, me spirits never failing landed on the quay<br>just as the ship was sailing captain at me roared,<br>said that no room had he then I jumped aboard a cabin found for Daddy down among the pigs,<br>played some funny rigs, danced some hearty jigs,<br>the water `round me bubblin` off to hollyhead wished myself was dead<br>or better far instead on the rocky road to Dublin.<br><br>The boys in Liverpool, when we safely landed called myself a fool,<br>I could no longer stand it blood began to boil,<br>temper I was losing poor old Erin`s Isle they began abusing hooray me soul,<br>says I, let the shellaillagh fly some galway boys were nigh,<br>saw I was a-hobblin` with a loud array,<br>they joined me in the fray and soon we cleared the way on the rocky road to Dublin.