Irish traditional song lyrics — collected by Beer Belly Band.
Come for a trip on Uncle Nobby’s steamboat
Where you can hide your worries on a high float
And we’ll take a trip to Leprechauns and shamrocks
And hide your minds and troubles for a while
Chorus:
And we are goin’ where the grass is growing green
To a mystic land that no one else has seen
Where oblivion takes the mind’s reality
And reality fades into a memory
Captain Bluebeard gives a smile at the gangway side to meet you
The First mate by his side with a work card if he needs you
They takes you to your berth your cabin’s cool and cosy
Full steams ahead we’re ready for to go
Chorus
Brig on the dancing girls the show is now in motion
The choo-choo train is gone it’s halfway through the mountains
The Fairies and the witch the banshees drinking brandy
Uncle Nobby at last is in command
Chorus
We’re off to Tir na n’Og the goddess of love is Grainne
Cuchulainn can’t get it in his coat he has no Fainne
The Leprechauns go by in a twinkling mystic vision
The shamrock lies a-mourning in the grave
Chorus