Subject: Lyr Add: FIDDLER'S GREEN (from Spailpin)^^^
From:
AndreasW
Date: 27 Nov 98 - 04:12 AM
I don't know whether this is the original version,
it is the ONLY version I have.
cu,
Andreas
FIDDLER'S GREEN
as performed by Spailpin on the CD Whiskey in The Jar from Ireland
As I walked by the dockside one evening so fair
To view the salt water and take the salt air,
I spied an old fisherman singing a song,
Oh take me away, boys, my time is not long.
Chorus [after each verse, twice after second verse]
Wrap me up in my oilskins and blankets.
No more on the docks I'll be seen.
Just tell my old shipmates
I'm taking a trip mates,
I'll see you someday in Fiddler's Green.
Now Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell
Where fishermen go if they don't go to Hell
The weather is fair and the dolphins do play
And the cold coast of Finland is far far away.
And when you're in dock and the long trip is through
There's pubs and there's clubs and there's lassies there too
The girls are all pretty and the beer it is free
And there's bottles of rum growing on every tree.
Now I don't want a harp nor a halo, not me
Just give me a breeze and a good rolling sea
I'll play my old squeeze box as we sail along
With the wind in the rigging a-singing a song.
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sj
