The Dubliners & The Pogues - Irish Rover Live in 1987 (lyrics)

The Dubliners & The Pogues - Irish Rover Live in 1987 (lyrics) 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 ’Twas a wonderful craft She was rigged fore and aft And oh, how the wild wind drove her She stood several blasts She had twenty seven masts And they called her The Irish Rover We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags We had two million barrels of stones We had three million sides of old blind horses hides’ We had four million barrels of bones We had five million hogs six million dogs Seven million barrels of porter We had eight million sides of old nanny goate tails In the hold of the Irish Rover There was awl Mickey Coote Who played hard on his flute And the ladies lined up for a set He would tootle with skill For each sparkling quadrille Though the dancers were fluther’d and bet With his sm