[Verse 1] On the fourth of July, 1806 We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks For the Grand City Hall in New York [Verse 2] We'd an elegant craft She was rigged fore and aft And oh, how the trade winds drove her She had twenty-seven masts She stood several blasts And they called her The Irish...Learn More

[Verse 1] When I was nine, in harvest time, I crossed the orchard wall The moon was bright, and the apples ripe, upon the ground did fall We filled our sacks, and we made our way back More adventures still to find In an orchard 'neath the Comeraghs in the sweet Dungarvan times [Verse 2] I crossed the orchard wall again when I was just thirteen It...Learn More

[Verse 1] On a cold winters night With a storm at its height The lifeboat answered the call They pitched and they tossed Till we thought they were lost As we watched from the harbour wall [Verse 2] Though the night was pitch black There was no turning back For someone was waiting out there But each volunteer Had to live with his fear As they...Learn More

That Sunday, on my oath, the rain was a heavy overcoat on a poor poet And when the rain began in fleeces of water to buck-leap like a goat I was only a walking penence reaching Kiltartan And there so suddenly that my cold spine broke out On the arch of my back in a rainbow This woman surged out of the day with so much sunlight That I was nailed...Learn More

[Verse 1] It was early, early all in the spring The birds did whistle and sweetly sing Changing their notes from tree to tree And the song they sang was Old Ireland free [Verse 2] It was early early all in the night The yeoman cavalry gave me a fright The yeoman cavalry were my downfall I was taken prisoner by Lord Cornwall [Verse 3] As I was...Learn More

[Verse 1] Spanish is the loving tongue Soft as music, light as spray Was a girl I learned it from Living down Sonora way [Verse 2] I don't seem much like a lover Still I hear her soft voice over Even when I'm all alone Mi amor, mi corazon [Verse 3] On the nights when I would ride She would listen for my spurs Throw the big door open wide Flash...Learn More

Aréir is mé téarnamh um’ neoin Ar an dtaobh thall den teóra ‘na mbím Do théarnaig an spéir-bhean im’ chómhair D’fhág taomanach breóite lag sinn Do ghéilleas dá méin is dá cló Dá béal tanaí beó mhilis binn Do léimeas fé dhéin dul ‘na cómhair Is ar éirinn ní n-eósainn cé h-í Dá ngéilleadh an spéir-bhean dom’ ghlór Siad ráidhte mo bheól a bheadh...Learn More

[Verse 1] With our nets and gear we're faring On the wild and wasteful ocean It's out there on the deep, that we harvest and reap our bread As we hunt the bonnie shoals of herring [Verse 2] It was a fair and a pleasant day Out of Yarmouth harbor I was faring As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger For to hunt the bonnie shoals of herring [Verse 3] O...Learn More

[Verse 1] When I've done my work of day, and I row my boat away Doon the waters o' Loch Tay, as the evening light is fading And I look upon Ben Lawers, where the after glory glows And I think on two bright eyes, and the melting mouth below [Verse 2] She's my beauteous nighean ruadh, She's my joy and sorrow too And although she is untrue, well I...Learn More

[Verse 1] There was an apprentice lived in Strawberry Lane She was loved by her master and her mistress the same Until a young sailor came sailing o'er the sea And that was the start of her misery [Verse 2] This young maid being innocent she thought it no harm For to go into bed, for to keep his back warm He hugged her and he kissed her and he...Learn More

[Verse 1] Sonny lives on a farm on a wide open space Where you can take off your sneakers and give up the race You could lay down your head by a sweet river bed But Sonny always remembers what it was his Mama said [Chorus] Oh, Sonny don't go away, I am here all alone And your daddy’s a sailor who never comes home All the nights get so long and the...Learn More

[Verse 1] While cruisin' 'round Yarmouth one day for a spree I met a fair damsel, the wind blowing free "I'm a fast-going clipper, my kind sir", says she "I'm ready for cargo, my hold is quite free" [Chorus] Singing, fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral lay Fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral day [Verse 2] What country she came from, I could not...Learn More