The Irish Rovers - The Rake

[DyBee]

One of my absolute favs!

[qxr2]

If I chance for to wander on down to the fair, all the lassies all around me do flock on the square, I'd pull out me fiddle and I'd play an auld air (type of musical composition).

[MrErickArend]

This is my Favorit song! Really a story teller!

[TetraDragon]

And can't be condemned to one marriage bed. While the rich grow their gold I'll have children instead. I will raise them up true and stout hearted. *Chorus* This is one of the first comments I've ever made on Youtube. Sorry the format is all bungled and I didn't think to post the lyrics in reverse order to have them show correctly. These are just the lyrics as I can pick them out anyway.

[TetraDragon]

But to kick up our heels and carouse. For the rich never spend any gold of their own. So they hold them away(?) like a dog and its bone. But they end on their backs among nettles and stones. And I hear there's no pockets in shrouds. *Chorus* Now some say I'm foolish. And some say I'm wise. For loving the women and the whiskey likewise. But the son of King of David had ten-hundred wives. And his wisdom was highly regarded. So I'll call for the lassies and ask them to wed.

[TetraDragon]

If chance affords awards a wander on down to the fair All of the lassies all around me do flock on the square I pull out me fiddle and play ___ there _______ There's Peggy and Jen from the banks of Long Knee There's Kitty and Molly down Dungannon Way(?) And theres another one from ___town who makes me head sway Such a fuss they all make over me. *Chorus* To quarrel for riches I there was inclined For the greatest of misers must leave them behind So me money I spend with no thought in me mind.

[blackhaze126]

@TetraDragon I pull out my fiddle to play and to dare ( i think), and there's one other from coutstown

[Galient5]

@TetraDragon "There's Peggy and Jen from the banks of Long Knee" he says Loch Nay as in Loch Ness.

[TetraDragon]

I am a young fellow from the county of Rhone ~? In the town of ___ I am very well known. _______ With Kitty and Judy and Mary. My father rebuked me for being such a rake. After spending me money on whiskey and cakes. But the lassies are sweet and tis all for their sakes and it keeps me light hearted and merry. I'll eat when I'm hungry I'll drink when I'm dry I'll court all the lassies or at least I will try and I'll never conform til the day that I die Agus fagaimid suid mar ata se

[blackhaze126]

@TetraDragon the county Tyrone, in the town of Strabanshire, for down to the ale house im frequently gone

[MothersPig]

Sweet song

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

Thanks to you, rimservices. The Gaelic phrase at the end is "Agus fagaimid suid mar ata se", and can be translated as "and so it is". I love the Rover's version, especially the line--"And I hear there's no pockets in shrouds."

[rimservices]

For lyrics close to these, google "I am a young fellow that's easy and bold", 1st link. Youtube does not allow direct links.

[Masterofwaagh]

Anyone has the lyrics of that song?

[rimservices]

Darby O'Leary? :)

[IrishandFolkmusic]

@rimservices Nope that was written to this tune though.

[Rigal01]

I'd like to read the lyric.