Takes me back to the place where they gave ECT And the drugged up psychos With death in their eyes And all of this really Means nothing to me
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Hello boys I've been away On a bit of a holiday To the land where the rivers freely flow And the cattle roam on the wild callagh Walking home three parts
down on me And it's lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink And mother wake me early in the morning At the time I was working for a landlord And
eighteen hundred and forty-six On March the eighteenth day We hoisted our colors to the top of the mast And for Greenland sailed away, brave boys And for
for to cry So good night and God guard you forever And write to me won't you, good bye So good night and God guard you forever And write to me won't you
me shovel across me knee And went to work for the company On the Leeds to Selby railway In eighteen hundred and forty-four I landed on the Liverpool shore Me
the sea again Though that belongs to the world of never will be There was never a wilder bastard than me on the sea I could fuck all the whores in damnation me
be blowing I am going, I am going Where streams of whiskey are flowing I have cursed, bled and sworn Jumped bail and landed up in jail Life has often tried to stretch me
A hungry feeling, came o'er me stealing And the mice they were squealing in my prison cell And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle All along the banks
the girls at home, I'm bound away across the foam Off to seek me fortune In far Amerikay There's silver there a-plenty, For the poor and for the gentry
the rat's piss, kick the shite And I'm not going home tonight, Yip-ay-aye This town has done us dirty This town has bled us dry We've been here for a
the Bleachner and spunkier than tea oh whisky you're my darling drunk or sober Says the old wan do not wrong me don't take me daughter from me for if
aul' wan to my aul' wan, "Sure I haven't got a farthing. I went down to Monto town To see uncle McArdle But he wouldn?t give me a half a crown For to