{"id":1762,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/nell-flahertys-drake"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"nell-flahertys-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/nell-flahertys-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"NELL FLAHERTY’S DRAKE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

My name it is Nell, and the truth for to tell
\nI come from Cootehill, which I’ll never deny
\nI had a large drake, and the truth for to speak
\nMy grandmother left me, and she going to die
\nHe was wholesome and sound; he weighed twenty pound
\nAnd the universe ’round I would rove for his sake
\nBad luck to the robber, be he drunk or sober
\nThat murdered Nell Flaherty’s beautiful drake<\/p>\n

His neck it was green, he was rare to be seen
\nHe was fit for a Queen of the highest degree
\nHis body so white, it would give you delight
\nHe was fat, plump and heavy, and brisk as a bee
\nMy dear little fellow, his legs, they were yellow
\nHe would fly like a swallow, and swim like a hake
\nUntil some wicked savage, to grease his white cabbage
\nHe murdered Nell Flaherty’s beautiful drake<\/p>\n

May his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt
\nMay a ghost always haunt him in the dead of the night
\nMay his hen never lay, may his ass never bray
\nMay his coat fly away like an old paper kite
\nMay the lice and the fleas the wretch ever tease
\nMay the pinching north breeze make him tremble and shake
\nMay a four-year-old bug build a nest in the lug
\nOf the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty’s Drake<\/p>\n

May his cock never crow, may his bellows ne’er blow
\nAnd a-pot or po, may he never have one
\nMay his cradle not rock, may his box have no lock
\nMay his wife have no smock to shield her back bone
\nMay his duck never quack, and his goose turn quite black
\nAnd pull down the turf with his long yellow beak
\nMay scurvy and itch, not depart from the breech
\nOf the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty’s Drake<\/p>\n

May his pipe never smoke, may his teapot be broke
\nAnd to add to the joke may his kettle not boil
\nMay he lay in the bed ’till the moment he’s dead
\nMay he always be fed on lob-scouse and fish oil
\nMay he swell with the gout, may his grinders fall out
\nMay he roar, bawl and shout, with the horrid toothache
\nMay his temples wear horns, and all his toes corns
\nThe monster that murdered Nell Flaherty’s drake<\/p>\n

May his spade never dig, may his sow never pig
\nEvery nit on his head be as large as a snail
\nMay his house have no thatch and his door have no latch
\nMay his turkey not hatch, may the rats eat his meal
\nMay every old fairy from Cork to Dunleary
\nDip him in snug and easy in some pond or lake
\nWhere the eel and the trout may slime in the snout
\nOf the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty’s Drake<\/p>\n

May his dog yelp and growl with hunger and cold
\nMay his wife always scold ’till his brain goes astray
\nMay the curse of each hag, that e’er carried a bag
\nAlight on his nag till his beard it turns grey
\nMay monkeys still bite him, and man-apes affright him
\nAnd everyone slight him asleep or awake
\nMay weasels still gnaw him, and jackdaws still claw him
\nThe monster that murdered Nell Flaherty’s Drake<\/p>\n

Then all the good news l have to diffuse
\n‘Tis for Peter Hughes, and blind Peter McFree
\nThere’s big nosed Bob Manson, and buck-toothed Ned Hanson
\nEach man has a grandson of my darling Drake
\nMy bird he had dozens of nephews and cousins
\nAnd one I must get or my heart it will break
\nTo keep my mind easy or else l’ll run crazy
\nSo this ends the song of Nell Flaherty’s Drake<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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