The Limerick Rake (2012 - Remaster) - The Dubliners

[00:01.56]Limerick Rake - The Dubliners
[00:03.61]I am a young fellow that's easy and bold
[00:07.2]In Castletown conners I'm very well known
[00:10.69]In Newcastle West I spent many a note
[00:13.86]With Kitty and Judy and Mary
[00:17.09]My parents rebuked me for being such a rake
[00:20.45]And for spending my time in such frolicsome ways
[00:23.82]I ne'er could forget the good nature of Jane
[00:26.99]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé
[00:30.26]My parents had reared me to shake and to mow
[00:33.75]To plough and to harrow to reap and to sow
[00:37.06]Me heart being too airy to drop it so low
[00:40.01]I set out on high speculation
[00:43.45]On paper and parchment they taught me to write
[00:46.79]In euclid and grammar they opened my eyes
[00:50.2]And in multiplication in truth I was bright
[00:53.53]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé
[00:56.91]If You've chance for to go to the town of Rathkeale
[00:59.83]The girls all round me do flock on the square
[01:03.14]Now some offer me apples and others sweet cakes
[01:06.18]And treats me unknown to their parents
[01:09.36]There is one from Askeaton and one from the Pike
[01:12.22]And another from Arda my heart was beguiled
[01:15.729996]Tho' being from the mountains her stockings are white
[01:19.35]And I'd love to be tightenin' her garters
[01:23.020004]Now to quarrel for riches I ne'er was inclined
[01:25.99]For the greatest of misers must leave them behind
[01:29.479996]But I'll purchase a cow that will never run dry
[01:32.9]And I'll milk her by twisting her horn
[01:35.82]John Damer of Shronel had plenty of gold
[01:38.96]And Lord Devonshire's treasure is twenty times more
[01:42.68]But should'em laid on their back among nettles and stones
[01:46.44]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé
[01:49.7]This old cow can be milked without clover or grass
[01:52.7]She's be pampered with corn sweet corn and hops
[01:56.759995]She'll be warm s he'll be stout she'll be free in her paps
[02:00.92]And she'll milk without spancil or halter
[02:03.78]And the man that will drink it will cock his caubeen
[02:06.68]And if anyone laughs well have be wigs on the green
[02:09.2]And the feeble old hag will get supple and free
[02:12.82]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé
[02:16.26]There's some say I'm foolish and more say I'm wise
[02:19.87]But being fond of the women I think is no crime
[02:23.44]Sure the son of King David had ten hundred wives
[02:27.02]And his wisdom was highly regarded
[02:29.76]I'll take a good garden and live at my ease
[02:33.43]And each woman and child could partake of the same
[02:37.32]If there be war in the cabin themselves they could blame
[02:40.57]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé
[02:43.9]But now for the future I think I'll get wise
[02:47.16]And I'll marry all those women who acted so kind
[02:50.9]Aye I'll marry them all on the morrow by and by
[02:54.20999]If the clergy agreed to the bargain
[02:57.02]And when I'll be old and my soul be at rest
[03:00.23]All those children and wives they could cry at my wake
[03:04.16]And they all gathers round and they offers their prayers
[03:07.96]To the Lord for the soul of their father