You sons of Dan O'Connell's Isle Pray pay attention to my ditty For it's all about a fair young man His birthplace it was Dublin city
My song is for to demonstrate A story with a pius moral Beginning by the Carlisle bridge And ending on the Isles of Coral
A scooner stood by George's Quay With sails all furled one saltry season A maiden paced upon that quay She wept like one bereft of reason
Oh Johnny Doyle's me love it's true It's true but full of deep contrition For what will all the neighbours say About yourself and my condition
Well the sails unfurled while the capstan turned The schooner scudded down the Liffey The maid she gave one piercing wail She was a mother in a jiffy
They sailed across the harbour bar And headed east for foreign waters To China where they think they're wise And drown at birth their surplus daughters
Now years and yeas had come and gone 'Till Mary's child grew self supporting But how her poor old heart would break When that young buck went out a-courting
He leaved me all alone she said He leaved me alone in melancoly I'll dress meself in man's attire And sail the seven seas for Johnny
She signed on board of a pirate barque That raided 'round the hot equator And with them hairy buccaneers There sailed a sweet and virtuos creature
Well the captain thought her name was Bill His caracter it was nefarious And with them hairy buccaneers Her situation was precarious
Now in the Saragosa sea Two rakish barques were idly lollin' And Mary on the quarterdeck The middle watch was she patrolling
She gazed upon the neighbouring barque And suddenly became exclaiment For there upon that gilded poop Stood Johhny Doyle in gorgeous raiment
They're happy now in sweet Ringsend The jewl that sparkles on the dodder They lead a peaceful merchants life A do a trade in oats and fodder
By marriage lines she's Mrs Doyle She keeps a store of periwinkles When she says she's in thay way again His one good eye with joy it twinkles
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