The Juice Of The Barley / Songs and Lyrics

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W:Down in Waterford Town on a cold winter's night
W:All the turf fires were burning when I first saw the light
W:A drunken old midwife went tipsy with joy
W:As she danced round the floor with her slip of a boy
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W:Singing bainne na mbó ar na gamhna
W:And the juice of the barley for me
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W:Well when I was a gossoon of eight years or so
W:With me turf and me primer to school I did go
W:To a dusty old schoolhouse without any door
W:Where lay the schoolmaster blind drunk on the floor
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W:At the learning I wasn't such a genius I'm thinkin'
W:But I soon beat the master entirely at drinkin'
W:Not a wake or a wedding for five miles around
W:But meself in the corner was sure to be found
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W:One Sunday the priest read me out from the altar
W:Saying You'll end up your days with your neck in a halter
W:And you'll dance a fine jig between heaven and hell
W:And his words they frighten me, truth for to tell
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W:So the very next morning as the dawn it did break
W:I went down to the vestry the pledge for to take
W:And there in that room sat the priests in a bunch
W:Round a big roaring fire drinking tumblers of punch
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W:Well from that day to this I have wandered alone
W:I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none
W:With the sky for me roof and the earth for me floor
W:And I'll dance out me days drinking whiskey galore

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