Fiddler's Green
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1. As I walked by the
dockside one evening so fair,
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to view the salt waters and take the salt
air,
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I heard an old fisherman singing a song,
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'Oh take me away boys, me time is not
long'.
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Wrap me up in me
oilskins and jumpers,
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no more on the docks
I'll be seen.
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Just tell me old
shipmates, I'm taking a trip, mates,
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and I'll see you some
day on Fiddler's Green.
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2. Now Fiddler's
Green is a place I've heard tell,
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where the fishermen go if they don't go to
hell.
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Where the skies are all clear and the
dolphins do play,
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and the cold coast of Greenland is far,
far away.
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3. Where the skies
are all clear and there's never a gale,
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and the fish jump on board with one swish
of their tail.
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Where you lie at your leisure, there's no
work to do,
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and the skipper's below making tea for the
crew.
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4. When you get back
on docks and the long trip is through,
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there's pubs and there's clubs and there's
lassies there, too.
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Where the girls are all pretty and the
beer it is free,
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and there's bottles of rum growing from
every tree.
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5. Now I don't want a
harp nor a halo, not me,
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just give me a breeze on a good rolling
sea.
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I'll play me old squeezebox as we sail along,
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with the wind in the rigging to sing me a
song.
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(capo 5th)
(The Dubliners)