Lyrics

I am a little beggarman, a begging I have been For three score years in this little isle of green Up to the Liffey down to Tessague I ‘m known by the name

Oh my lovely Rose of Clare, You’re the sweetest girl I know. You’re the Queen of all the roses, Like the pretty flowers that grow. You are the sunshine of

I danced in the morning when the world was begun I danced in the moon, the stars and the sun I danced down from Heaven and I danced on Earth At Bethlehem I

My love she’s but a lassie yet Oh My love she’s but a lassie yet We’ll let her stand a year or twa She’ll no be half sae saucy yet I rue the day I sought h

Many young men of twenty said goodbye All that long day From break of dawn until the sun was high Many young men of twenty said goodbye My boy Jimmy went t

I am an old Navvy and I work on the line And the last place I worked was New Castle-on-Thyme I’ll tell me misfortune it happened in fun It happened one nig

I’m a decent boy just landed From the town of Ballyfad I want a situation, yes And want it very bad I have seen employment advertised “It’s just the thing”

When I was young, a pub was a pub With mahogany tables and a sawdust floor Nothing fancy but plain enough But they don’t build pubs like that no more They’

Well, there was an old woman from Wexford And in Wexford she did well She lovered old man dearly But another one twice as well Chorus: With me tiggery tigg

Come all ye young rebels, and list while I sing, For the love of one’s country is a terrible thing. It banishes fear with the speed of a flame, And it make