Steve Gardham sent me scans of (I believe) the original published sheet music for "The Rocky Road to Dublin"--it was published by Hopwood and Crew, Clifton's primary publisher. As such, it can be considered as close to the source as is generally available.

Although famous as a slip jig (9/8 time), this music is arranged as a simple jig (6/8). I will not transcribe the lyrics because they are essentially as in the broadside Jim Dixon transcribed, with only these minor differences (ignoring presentation, punctuation and capitalization and "n'" vs "ng/nd"):

V1 L5: lave -> leave

Chorus: (Supplied in full)
Whack fal lal le ral
Whack fal lal le ral
Whack fal lal le
Whack fal lal le ri-do

V2 L4: when he's on -> whenever he's on
V3 L6: on my stick -> upon my stick
V4 L2: as the ship
V5 L1: in Liverpool -> of Liverpool
V5 L3: boil -> broil
V5 L7: hurrah -> Hurragh

Shortly, you should see my MIDI of the full arrangement appearing either here or at the top of this thread (thanks to Joe Offer). The basic tune is so well-known, it didn't seem necessary to provide an ABC as well.

I can provide a score, prepared with Finale PrintMusic, in either Finale, PDF or MusicXML--PM me if you need one. So far, it has only the stuff that affects MIDI generation (i.e. not all the slurs, markings or lyrics), and that may be where I leave it.

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