《The Limerick Rake (2012 - Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:01] Limerick Rake - The Dubliners

[00:00:03] I am a young fellow that's easy and bold

[00:00:07] In Castletown conners I'm very well known

[00:00:10] In Newcastle West I spent many a note

[00:00:13] With Kitty and Judy and Mary

[00:00:17] My parents rebuked me for being such a rake

[00:00:20] And for spending my time in such frolicsome ways

[00:00:23] I ne'er could forget the good nature of Jane

[00:00:26] Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé

[00:00:30] My parents had reared me to shake and to mow

[00:00:33] To plough and to harrow to reap and to sow

[00:00:37] Me heart being too airy to drop it so low

[00:00:40] I set out on high speculation

[00:00:43] On paper and parchment they taught me to write

[00:00:46] In euclid and grammar they opened my eyes

[00:00:50] And in multiplication in truth I was bright

[00:00:53] Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé

[00:00:56] If You've chance for to go to the town of Rathkeale

[00:00:59] The girls all round me do flock on the square

[00:01:03] Now some offer me apples and others sweet cakes

[00:01:06] And treats me unknown to their parents

[00:01:09] There is one from Askeaton and one from the Pike

[00:01:12] And another from Arda my heart was beguiled

[00:01:15] Tho' being from the mountains her stockings are white

[00:01:19] And I'd love to be tightenin' her garters

[00:01:23] Now to quarrel for riches I ne'er was inclined

[00:01:25] For the greatest of misers must leave them behind

[00:01:29] But I'll purchase a cow that will never run dry

[00:01:32] And I'll milk her by twisting her horn

[00:01:35] John Damer of Shronel had plenty of gold

[00:01:38] And Lord Devonshire's treasure is twenty times more

[00:01:42] But should'em laid on their back among nettles and stones

[00:01:46] Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé

[00:01:49] This old cow can be milked without clover or grass

[00:01:52] She's be pampered with corn sweet corn and hops

[00:01:56] She'll be warm s he'll be stout she'll be free in her paps

[00:02:00] And she'll milk without spancil or halter

[00:02:03] And the man that will drink it will cock his caubeen

[00:02:06] And if anyone laughs well have be wigs on the green

[00:02:09] And the feeble old hag will get supple and free

[00:02:12] Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé

[00:02:16] There's some say I'm foolish and more say I'm wise

[00:02:19] But being fond of the women I think is no crime

[00:02:23] Sure the son of King David had ten hundred wives

[00:02:27] And his wisdom was highly regarded

[00:02:29] I'll take a good garden and live at my ease

[00:02:33] And each woman and child could partake of the same

[00:02:37] If there be war in the cabin themselves they could blame

[00:02:40] Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé

[00:02:43] But now for the future I think I'll get wise

[00:02:47] And I'll marry all those women who acted so kind

[00:02:50] Aye I'll marry them all on the morrow by and by

[00:02:54] If the clergy agreed to the bargain

[00:02:57] And when I'll be old and my soul be at rest

[00:03:00] All those children and wives they could cry at my wake

[00:03:04] And they all gathers round and they offers their prayers

[00:03:07] To the Lord for the soul of their father