Author name: beerbellycollection

Leitrim is a very funny place sir a strange and troubled land All the boys are in the IRA sir all the women in Cumann na Ban Every tractor has a Nicky Kell

I’ll sing you a song of a terrible wrong, When the flags they flew at half-mast And a man he lay dead, he’d been riddled with lead He died on the streets o

There was a wild colonial boy Jack Doolin was his name Of poor but honest parents he was born near Castlemane He was his father’s only son his mother’s pri

In Dublin City in 1913 the boss was rich and the poor were slaves The women working, the children starving, then on came Larkin like a mighty wave The work

Jack Lynch came out from Dublin and he had 10,000 men He marched them up to the border and he marched back again But such an armored column lads the like w

You can sing of all your sport’n hero’s like Mr. McGrath and the rest But there’s a horse in the county of Wicklow that’s beaten all of the best The slowes

He was stranded in some tiny town of fair Prince Edward Island Waiting for a ship to come and find him A one-horse place, a friendly face, some coffee and

Come all you lads and lassies and listen to my sad tale And I’ll tell to you what happened to me one night down in Kinsale It being the summer season I fou

Oh you Western Ocean labourers, I would have you all beware, That when you’re aboard of a packet-ship, no dungaree jumpers wear, But have a big monkey jack

Chorus: On the Banks of the Roses me love and I sat down And I took out me fiddle for to play me love a tune In the middle of the tune, oh she sighed and s