[00:00.59](Recruiting Sergeant)
[00:17.58]As I was walking down the road
[00:19.35]A feeling fine and larky oh
[00:21.10]A recruiting sergeant came up to me
[00:23.09]Says he, you'd look fine in khaki oh
[00:25.94]For the King he is in need of men
[00:27.77]Come read this proclamation oh
[00:29.42]A life in Flanders for you then
[00:31.64]Would be a fine vacation oh
[00:35.15]That may be so says I to him
[00:37.15]But tell me sergeant dearie-oh
[00:39.14]If I had a pack stuck upon my back
[00:40.99]Would I look fine and cheerie oh
[00:43.76]For they'd have you train and drill until
[00:45.66]They had you one of the Frenchies oh
[00:47.55]It may be warm in Flanders
[00:49.48]But it's draughty in the trenches oh
[00:53.23]The sergeant smiled and winked his eye
[00:55.03]His smile was most provoking oh
[00:56.91]He twiddled and twirled his wee mustache
[00:58.82]Says he, I know you're only joking oh
[01:01.64]For the sandbags are so warm and high
[01:03.52]The wind you won't feel blowing oh
[01:05.29]Well I winked at a cailin passing by
[01:07.12]Says I, what if it's snowing oh
[01:10.91]Come rain or hail or wind or snow
[01:12.79]I'm not going out to Flanders oh
[01:14.62]There's fighting in Dublin to be done
[01:16.44]Let your sergeants and your commanders go
[01:19.26]Let Englishmen fight English wars
[01:21.10]It's nearly time they started oh
[01:23.00]I saluted the sergeant a very good night
[01:24.96]And there and then we parted oh
[01:26.94](The Rocky Road to Dublin)
[02:06.00](Galway Races)
[02:06.17]As I went down to Galway Town
[02:07.21]To seek for recreation
[02:08.77]On the seventeenth of August
[02:10.53]Me mind being elevated
[02:12.19]There were passengers assembled
[02:13.58]With their tickets at the station
[02:15.27]And me eyes began to dazzle
[02:16.79]And they off to see the races
[02:18.34]With me wack fol the do fol
[02:20.15]The diddle idle day
[02:24.89]There were passengers from Limerick
[02:26.41]And passengers from Nenagh
[02:28.10]The boys of Connemara
[02:29.35]And the Clare unmarried maiden
[02:31.23]There were people from Cork City
[02:32.70]Who were loyal, true and faithful
[02:34.38]Who brought home the Fenian prisoners
[02:35.85]From dying in foreign nations
[02:37.56]With me wack fol the do fol
[02:39.16]The diddle idle day
[02:43.90]And it's there you'll see the pipers
[02:45.64]And the fiddlers competing
[02:47.22]And the sporting wheel of fortune
[02:48.53]And the four and twenty quarters
[02:50.38]And there's others without scruple
[02:51.65]Pelting wattles at poor Maggie
[02:53.50]And her father well contented
[02:54.81]And he gazing at his daughter
[02:56.64]With me wack fol the do fol
[02:58.38]The diddle idle day
[03:15.36]With me wack fol the do fol
[03:17.45]The diddle idle day
[03:22.04]And it's there you'll see the jockeys
[03:23.54]And they mounted on so stably
[03:25.22]The pink, the blue, the orange, and green
[03:26.90]The colors of our nation
[03:28.54]The time it came for starting
[03:29.87]All the horses seemed impatient
[03:31.62]Their feet they hardly touched the ground
[03:33.10]The speed was so amazing!
[03:34.58]With me wack fol the do fol
[03:36.24]The diddle idle day
[03:41.22]There was half a million people there
[03:42.83]Of all denominations
[03:44.57]The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew, the Presbyterian
[03:47.61]Yet there was no animosity
[03:49.19]No matter what persuasion
[03:50.77]But failte hospitality
[03:52.21]Inducing fresh acquaintance
[03:53.59]With me wack fol the do fol
[03:55.44]The diddle idle day