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Thread #14865   Message #130094
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
31-Oct-99 - 02:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Irish Rover (various versions)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Irish Rover (different Version)
There's a very different version of the fourth verse in James N. Healy's Second Book of Irish Ballads, (published by Mercier Press in 1962), celebrating the Irish Diaspora.

Donaghue and MacHugh came from Red Waterloo
And O'Neill and Mac Flail from the Rhine
There was Ludd and Mc Gludd from the land of the flood
Pat Malone, Mike McGowan and O'Brien
Bould MacGee, MacEntee and big Neill from Tigree
And Michael O'Dwyer from Dover
And a man from Turkestan sure his name was Kid MacCann
Was the skipper of the Irish Rover



And he gives a chorus as well -

Fare thee well, my own true one, I'm going far from you
And I will swear by the stars above, forever I'll be true
But as I part it willbreak my heart, and when the trip,is over
I'll roam again in true Irish style aboard the Irish Rover.