If you come down to our street inquire at number nine And you may ask one and you may ask two but the red-haired one is mine With the roo-rye-ah, fa-the-diddle-dah, roo-rye-ah she's a gay old hag I sat her down in a bed of down, I sat her down quite hazy Three kisses then I stole from her, the last one drove her crazy With the roo-rye-ah,...Learn More

I was born on the land like my father before me And I worked on it year after year Through all kinds of weather in summer and winter Right or wrong we persevered And I'll always remember the feel of the soil In the spring when we broke the first ground And the smell of the hay in the barn in the fall Brings my childhood years all back...Learn More

Well you’ve heard of Aristotle and his great philosophy And you may not guess, but I must confess that it’s all just Greek to me As I lie in bed in the morning, there’s one thing I always say If you’re known as an early riser, you can stop in the bed all day [Chorus] For the man who rises early is the man who’s life is lost For he’ll never know...Learn More

I’m always drunk and I’m seldom sober I’m constant rovin’ from town to town Ah, but I’m old now, my sporting’s over So, Molly, a store, won’t you lay me down REFRAIN: Just lay my head on a keg of brandy It is my fancy, I do declare For while I’m drinkin’, I’m always thinkin’ On lovely Molly from the County Clare For the ripest apple is the...Learn More

My song for you this evening, it's not to make you sad Nor for adding to the sorrows of our troubled northern land But lately I've been thinking and it just won't leave my mind I'll tell you of two friends one time who were both good friends of mine Isaac Scott from Banagh, he lived just across the fields A great man for the music, the dancing and...Learn More

My name is William Hollander As you may understand I was born in the County of Waterford In Erin's lovely land When I was young and in me prime And health did on me smile My parents raised me tenderly I being their only child My father bound me to a trade In Waterford's fair town He bound me to a cooper By the name of William Brown I served my...Learn More

By the river in the even time the piper used to play And down along the railway tracks he'd play songs sad and gay His pipes were always well in tune and the people used to say His songs would echo in evening tide and carry miles away [Chorus] So here's to the ferrybank piper May his sad tunes never die May his gay tunes raise your weary...Learn More

In the Casa Grande garden, we sat at evening time Politely making small talk while the waiters poured more wine And it seemed like some old movie that I saw so long ago Until I looked out through the chain link fence at the city down below [Chorus] There’s a full moon over Managua, and the wind is in the trees The stars are shining clear tonight,...Learn More

I had started painting pictures just to pass away the time But the colors all were changed for me when your eyes looked into mine And the pictures have all faded now and I’m singing lonesome songs ‘Cause you touched me much too deeply and I know I can’t stay long But if wishes were horses and beggars could ride I would always be with you, always...Learn More

Ye heilands and ye lowlands O whaur have ye been? They have slain the Earl o' Murray And laid him on the green; He was a braw gallant And he play'd at the glove O the bonnie Earl o' Murray He was the Queen's own love Lang will his lady Look o'er the castle Doune Ere she sees the Earl o' Murray Come soundin' thro' the toon Ye heilands and ye...Learn More

My name’s James Michael Ryan and in Southie I was born Named after that great man who once made Boston town his own My father came from Kerry and my mother from Mayo And I longed to see the land they left so many years ago My father always told me that he’d take me there some day But I was only seventeen on the night he passed away He took one...Learn More

As Bobby was out for a stroll one day Twas down by the river he happened to stray And some of his friends were having a swim So he took of his clothes and he jumped right in He swam and he dived like a water hen All around by the islands and back again He lay down on the sand to dry his skin And he never noticed the tide coming in And bobby's...Learn More