Lyrics

Last Sunday night, we had no dough So I took the moth up to see the zoo We saw the lions and the kangaroos Inside the zoological gardens Thunder and Lighte

Well it’s all for me grog, me jolly jolly grog It’s all for me beer and tobacco For I spent all me tin with the lassies drinking gin Far across the western

When I was just a lad I used to go to school I’d sit down there in the seat, feeling like a fool The teacher taught us everything, everything we know She h

Come all ye maidens young and fair All you that are blooming in your prime Always beware and keep your garden fair Let no man steal away your thyme Chorus:

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

Sadly but slowly one night in November I laid down my weary head for to repose On my pillow of straw which I long shall remember I been weary for sleep, I

Chorus: All the radio said was another shot dead And he died with a gun in his hand But they never said why Billy Reid had to die Cause he died to free Ire

As I walked through the Glenshane Pass I heard a young girl mourn ‘The boy form Tamlaghtduff ‘she cried ‘is two years dead and gone’ How my heart is torn a

Come and sit my little son upon you daddy’s knee You’re almost ten and you’re growing up in a land so wide and free You asked me just this afternoon about

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