On moonless nights she walks the strand to curse the ships she spies

GENTLEMAN SOLDIER

It’s of a gentleman soldier, as a sentry he did stand,

He saluted a fair maid with a waving of his hand -

So boldly then he kissed her and he passed it off as a joke -

Then he drilled her into the sentry box, wrapped up in a soldier's cloak!

Chorus:

And the drums they go with a rap-tap-tap-tap

And the fifes they loudly play

Saying fare thee well Molly me dear, I must be going away

All night they tossed and tumbled ‘til daylight did appear.

The soldier rose, put on his clothes, saying, "Fare thee well my dear!

For the drums they are a-beating and the fifes they loudly play -

If it weren't for that, Molly, me dear, then alone with you I'd stay!"

Chorus

"Oh, come you gentleman soldier, won't you marry me?"

"Oh no, me dearest Molly, such thing can never be -

For I've a wife already and children I have three!

Two wives are allowed in the army but one's too much for me!"

Chorus

WINDSOR CIDER

Come listen my friends I've a true tale to tell

Of a night at the Windsor's when it all went to hell.

The ships had come in and the tavern ran out

Of Lambeck's and lagers and bitters and stouts.

The patron it dried oh now what shall we drink?

So we offered them whiskey with a flirtatious wink

We offered them gin, or at least what they'd say,

But they'd have none of that for it was cider they craved.

(Chorus) Oh we'll never, no never, no never again

If we live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten,

Never pour Windsor's Cider on a bet or a dare

For no matter your station your better beware.

We lasses were singing a good, bawdy tune

Suggestive enough to make younger men swoon.

And soon each one had her bonnet unlaced

To keep up with working at a furious pace.

The bonnet was filled with strong men of the sea

Who required more sustenance than treacle and tea.

With a months worth of wages and one night on shore

They roared for more cider till like whores they were sore.

(Chorus)

The juice of the apple was never so hard

We poured it by flagon, we poured it by yard

We filled every tankard, then filled them again

This unceasing workload near drove us insane.

Now happy Jack Ale has a drink of a name

And Johnny Jumpup sent good men to the place.

For the cider we served on that ill fatten night

Knocked the town to the ground and then set it up right.

(Chorus)

WHISKEY IN THE JAR

As I was goin' over the Cork and Kerry Mountains

I noticed Captain Farrell and his money, he was countin'

I first produced my pistol and then produced my rapier

I said, "Stand and deliver or the devil he may take ya"

Musha rain dum-a-doo, dum-a-da,

Whack for my daddy, oh,

Whack for my daddy, oh,

There's whiskey in the jar!

I took all of his money and it was a pretty penny

I took all of his money, yeah, and brought it home to Molly

She swore that she loved me, no, never would she leave me

But devil take that woman, for you know she tricked me easy

REFRAIN.

Now some men like a fishin' but some men like the fowlin'

And some men like to hear, how the cannonball is roarin'

But me, I like just sleepin', in my dear Molly's chamber

But here I am in prison, here I am with ball and chain, yeah

REFRAIN.

MAD JENNY

It's no other but Mad Jenny, with her fist raised to the sky

On moonless nights she walks the strand to curse the ships she spies

Date: 2016-04-22; view: 706