![Girls of Derry - The Irish Rovers](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/32847530557773925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 28.02.2014
Record label: Rover
Song language: English
Girls of Derry |
There’s some who say a Sailor’s life is full of sport and leisure |
Just a grand old time upon the raging main. |
But boys the work is tough and there’s little time for pleasure |
When you’re fighting rummeling seas and hurricanes. |
So heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
The anchor’s weighed, the course it set, and now we’re homeward bound! |
Heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
Tonight we’ll be a dancing with the girls of Derrtyown! |
The captain and the crew are well seasoned on the ocean, |
So what care we for weather rain or shine? |
Our ship is sound and sure, and when she’s in full motion, |
There’s not a faster clipper on the line! |
So heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
The anchor’s weighed, the course it set, and now we’re homeward bound! |
Heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
Tonight we’ll be a dancing with the girls of Derrtyown! |
We’ve sailed to South America, New Zealand and Australia, |
To Halifax, New York and Baltimore. |
Can never report of call. |
Sure we’ve stories to regail ya'. |
For on the shore we likes to rant and roar! |
So heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
The anchor’s weighed, the course it set, and now we’re homeward bound! |
Heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
Tonight we’ll be a dancing with the girls of Derrtyown! |
So heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
The anchor’s weighed, the course it set, and now we’re homeward bound! |
Heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
Tonight we’ll be a dancing with the girls of Derrtyown! |
We’re sailing up Loch Voil. |
Thank God the journey’s ended. |
There’s lassies waiting there at Derry’s quay! |
We’ve money for to spend and girls to help us spend it. |
We’ll live like kings until we sail away! |
So heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
The anchor’s weighed, the course it set, and now we’re homeward bound! |
Heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
Tonight we’ll be a dancing with the girls of Derrtyown! |
So heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
The anchor’s weighed, the course it set, and now we’re homeward bound! |
Heave away! |
(Heave away!) Haul away! |
(Haul away!) |
Tonight we’ll be a dancing with the girls of Derrtyown! |
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Drunken Sailor | 2014 |
Up Among the Heather | 2014 |
The Jolly Roving Tar | 2012 |
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye | 2014 |
Star of the County Down | 1996 |
Whiskey in the Jar | 2014 |
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen | 1999 |
Finnegan’s Wake | 2014 |
Donald Where's Your Trousers | 1996 |
Mick Maguire | 2014 |
The Rake | 2014 |
The Dublin Pub Crawl | 2010 |
Trust in Drink | 2012 |
Rambling Boys of Pleasure | 2014 |
Star of the Co. Down | 2014 |
Grandma Got Run-over by a Reindeer | 1999 |
Mountain Tay | 1996 |
New York Girls | 2014 |
Dunluce Castle | 2014 |
Christmas in Killarney | 1999 |