This just in from England...

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Dear Dan,

I was listening to your CD with Johnny Collins and I read the sleeve notes on Billy O'Shea and your search for the lyrics.

I thought you might be interested in the attached version which I have been singing for some time. I sing to more or less the same tune but probably quite a bit quicker.

Grae

Billy O' Shea

Well we all got drunk in Dublin City,
Fall down me Billy
Well we all got drunk an' its mores the pity
An' it's fall down Billy O' Shea.

Fall down, fall down, me Billy
We're bound away for Americay
An' it's fall down Billy O' Shea.

Well we all got drunk on the Rudyardstone Quay
When we awoke we were all at sea

We are not sailors Captain dear
We come from land and we won't work here

We hoisted him up to the Tops'l yard
When he hit the deck well he hit it hard

When I gets back to the Rudyardstone Quay
I'll take my Girl out on a spree

I'll say to her will you marry me
Then no more will I go to sea

But now I hear the Captain say
We're bound away for Americay

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George...

I have invited the originator to check in on the thread. I believe we have a genuine folk song here.

All the best,
Dan