What i can remember is, it was sung in first person, the singer talking about how he had had all these things happen in his life (which could also be read to mean he had sung all of these songs the lines were borrowed from)
Like had gold in great store and been exiled to americay and shiprecked and jilted in love i think.
I cant exactly remember any of the words

Im pritty sure it included snippets from
Wild rover
Mountains pf morne
Whiskey in the jar
Irish rover
And about 2 dozen others