Author name: beerbellycollection

You landsmen all on you I call You heroes stout and brave That are inclined to cross the seas Your homelands now to leave Come join with Captain Coulston T

The October winds lament around the castle of Dromore Yet peace is in her lofty halls, my loving treasure store Though autumn leaves may droop and die, a b

Oh, come by the hills to the land where fancy is free. Stand where the peaks meet the sky and the loughs meet the sea, Where rivers run clear, bracken is g

I’m a young married man that is tired in life, Ten years I’ve been wed to a sickly wife; She does nothing all day but sit down and cry, A-wishing to God th

It was far across the sea, when the devil got a hold of me He wouldn’t set me free, so he kept me soul for ransom na na na na na… I’m a sailor man from G

I was born in a Dublin Street where the Loyal drums did beat And those loving English feet they walked all over us And every single night when Da would com

Oh come all ye tramps and hawkers lads ye gatherers oblaw That tramps the country round and round come listen one and all I’ll tell to you a rovin’ tale of

The Garden of Eden has vanished, they say But I know the lie of it still; Just turn to the left at the bridge of Finea And stop when halfway to Cootehill.

Will you come to the bower o’er the free boundless ocean Where the stupendous waves roll in thundering motion, Where the mermaids are seen and the fierce t

When, on Ramillies’ bloody field, The baffled French were forced to yield, The victor Saxon backward reeled Before the charge of Clare’s dragoons. The flag