Paddy Lie Back - The Wolfe Tones

Last night there was a great demand for sailors

For the colonies for Frisco and for France

So I slipped aboard a lively barque, the Hotspur

And was paralytic drunk before before we went

There were Frenchmen, there were Germans there were Russians

There were jolly jacks came just across from from France

And not one of them could speak a word of English

But they’d awnser to the name of Bill or Dan

I woke up in the morning sick and sore

I wished I’d never sailed to sea once more

When a voice it came thundering through the floor

Get up and pay attention to your name

Well I wished that I was safely in the boozer

With Molly or with peggy on me knee

And I know exactly what I’d like to do now

And if you were here you’d do the same as me