Dan Milner was kind enough to give me missing lyrics a couple of years ago. Here they are as passed on to Lynn N. last evening:

Billy O'Shea_____________

from the singing of Dan Milner


Oh, we all got drunk in Dublin City,
All down me Billies,
We all got drunk in Dublin City,
All down Billy O'Shea.

(Chorus)

All down, all down,
All down me Billies,
All down, all down by Dublin City,
All down Billy O'Shea.


St. Patrick was a roamin' sailor,
All down me Billies,
He had a Pater and a Mater,
All down Billy O'Shea.
He sailed around by the Gloucester Diamond,
All down me Billies,
And he drove the snakes all out of Ireland.
All down Billy O'Shea                         ……………………Chorus

I'll sing you a song of the Blackball Line, boys,
That's the line where I wasted me prime, boys,
There was tinkers and tailors and fakers all, boys,
They shipped us A.B.s aboard the Blackball.        …………………Chorus

Just take a trip to Liverpool, boys,
Liverpool that packet school, boys,
Yankee sailors you'll see there, boys,
With their red-topped boots and short-cut hair, boys. …Chorus

Santander Jim was the mate from Hell, boys,
with his fists or iron and feet as well, boys,
Its "Foretop halyards!" he does roar, boys,
And, "Ye lay aloft Mick, ye a son of a whore!", boys. …Chorus x2