Rocky Road to Dublin

Accordi Rocky Road to Dublin

Intro:
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Well in the merry month of May 

from me home I started
                       
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Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted
               
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Saluted father dear kissed me darlin' mother
  
Drank a pint of beer, 
             
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me grief and tears to smother
                     
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Then off to reap the corn 

and leave where I was born
                            
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I cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghost and goblin
                       
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In a brand new pair of brogues 

I rattled o'er the bogs
                       
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And frightened all the dogs 
       
on the rocky road to Dublin
                       
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One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    
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And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

   
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In Mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary
                          
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Started by daylight, next mornin' light and airy
                   
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Took a drop of the pure 

to keep my heart from sinkin'
                              
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That's the Paddy's cure whene'er 

he's on for drinking
                  
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To see the lasses smile laughing all the while

At my curious style, 
        
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'twould set your heart a-bubblin'
                   
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They ax'd if I was hired, 

the wages I required
                  
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Till I was almost tired 

of the rocky road to Dublin
                       
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One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    
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And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

   
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In Dublin next arrived I thought it such a pity
                         
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To be so soon deprived a view of that fine city
              
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Then I took a stroll all among the quality
                                 
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My bundle it was stole, all in a neat locality
                     
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Something crossed my mind, then I looked behind
                                
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No bundle could I find, upon my stick a wobblin'
                  
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Enquirin' for the rogue, 

they said my Connaught brogue
               
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Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin
                       
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One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    
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And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

     
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From there I got away my spirits never failin'
                   
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Landed on the quay as the ship was sailin'
              
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Captain at me roared, said that no room had he
                              
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When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy
      
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Down among the pigs, I played some funny rigs

Danced some hearty jigs, 
    
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the water round me bubblin'
             
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When off Holyhead, I wished myself was dead
                         
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Or better far instead on the rocky road to Dublin
                       
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One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    
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And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

    
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The boys of Liverpool when we safely landed
                
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Called myself a fool, I could no longer stand it
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Blood began to boil, temper I was losin'
                              
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Poor ould Erin's isle, they began abusin'
           
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"Hurrah my soul, " sez I, my shillelagh I let fly
                          
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Some Galway boys were by, saw I was a hobble in
            
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Then with a loud hurray, they joined in the affray

We quickly cleared the way 
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for the rocky road to Dublin
                       
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One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    
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And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

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