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Do something for me, boys
If i should die at sea, boys
Write a little note, boys
Set it off afloat, saying

Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls
Village and city girls by the quayside
Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls
Watching and waiting by the sea

Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls
Quiet or witty girls by the quayside
Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls
Watching and waiting by the sea

I think about your pale arms waving
When i see the caps upon the green
And the rocking roller-coaster ocean
Think about you every night when i'm fathoms asleep
And in my dreams
We are rocking in a similar motion

I think about the salt sea rolling
Down in pearly tears upon your cheeks
Just like the day the harbour pulled away
I think about your warm white sheets unfolding
The more i have to drink
The more that i can think to say

Oooh, there's so much fun
Oooh, there's so much fun

The party's over, baby
The businessmen are waking up
Its time to go now, baby
Lets move on out and shake it up
At my place...

Well fun time's over, baby
The stupid sun is coming up
But we can beat it, baby
Lets shut the blinds and make it up
At my place...

Gonna make it alright, baby
Going out like a light, baby
Oh yeah, alright, baby

Its a jungle out there, baby
Those businessmen are shaking it up
Sometimes they fight each other, baby
But later on they're making it up
At my place...

I'm suffering out there, baby
I'm itching and crying, i want a thumb to suck
I think you got one for me, baby
Lets get it on and head on up
To my place...

Gonna make it alright, baby
Going out like a light, baby
Oh yeah, alright, baby

It's a nightmare out there, baby
The g-men are all covering it up
Sometimes they cry together, baby
And no one sees when they pucker up
At my place...

When the end is coming, baby
We'll all be crying and lighting up
But i intend to stop it, baby
So grab your bag and come on up
To my place...

Gonna make it alright, baby
Going out like a light, baby
Oh yeah, alright, baby

Oooh, there's so much fun
Oooh, there's so much fun
Oooh, but this is so much fun...

I've been aching to sneeze
Begging please, pretty please
But i can't get the thing to come out
I've been down on my knees
I've been pissing on trees
But the evil thing just won't come out

Come on out, my pretty baby
Relieve me of my burden, little baby
Come on out, my pretty baby

I've been waking at dawn
With the big bird on
And i can't make the thing go away
I've been throwing up drinks
In the toilets and sinks
But it just sticks around anyway

Come on out, my pretty baby
Relieve me of my burden, little baby
Come on out, my pretty baby

I've been waking at dawn
With a fever going on
And a stain that just won't wash away
I've got nothing to hide
It's just something inside
That keeps coming back, day after day

Come on out, my pretty baby
Relieve me of my burden, little baby
Come on out, my pretty baby
My pretty baby
My pretty baby

Who put the doggy in the doghouse?
You did, baby - you did
Who put your granny in the grannyhouse?
You did, baby - you did, baby
Who put the bad in the madhouse?
You did, baby - you did
Who put that junk in the junkhouse?
You did, baby - you did, baby

Keep your eye on things while i'm gone
Keep a lid on things
Don't you try everything while i'm gone
Keep a lid on things

Who put the fun in the funhouse?
You did, baby - you did
Who put your dad in the halfhouse?
You did, baby - you did, baby
Who put the boys in the clubhouse?
You did, baby - you did
Who put the cat in the cathouse?
You did, baby - you did, baby

Keep your eye on things while i'm gone
Keep a lid on things
Don't you try everything while i'm gone
Keep a lid on things
Keep your eye on things while i'm gone
Keep a lid on things

Who dug the hole in the outhouse?
You did, baby - you did
Who put whitey in the white house?
You did, baby - you did, baby

Keep your eye on things while i'm gone
Keep a lid on things
Don't you try everything while i'm gone
Keep a lid on things
Keep your eye on things while i'm gone
Keep a lid on things

Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Givin' all your love to just one man
You'll have bad times
And he'll have good times
Doin' things that you don't understand

But if you love him you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
And if you love him
Oh, be proud of him
'cause, after all, he's just a man

Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely

Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep givin' all the love you can
Stand by your man

(repeat last stanza)

I love your guts, i love your goo
Your ugly blood, your creepy heart
The heart that's true to me and you
I thank you

I'd eat your gum, i'd eat your goo
I love the blood that lights your eyes
And makes your lips the colour blue
I thank you

Your flesh and your insides
Your blood and your outsides
You're blameless and i'm shameless

I am the shit upon your shoe
Your creepy blood is in my heart
The heart that's true to me and you
I thank you

Your flesh and your insides
Your blood and your outsides
You're blameless and i'm shameless

I'm in the mud, i'm in the goo
Your face is cold, your lips are blue
But your heart is true to me and you
I thank you

Your flesh and your insides
Your blood and your outsides
You're blameless and i'm shameless

Take off your mink coat, take off your muff
Get on the table and show us your stuff
Right here next to me
I'm a fat old man, sweatin' and huffin'
A gin in my hand and your pretty little muffin
Right here next to me

Just don't feed me with no tube
Or change my dirty diaper
If i'm back at mommy's boob
Call in the frickin' snipers
And just shoot me, baby

Stuff me in the cracks, stuff me
In the toilet, sweetie, put me in the trash
But be next to me
Send me to my room, hold me down
And spank me, use the wooden spoon
But be next to me

Just don't feed me with no tube
Or change my dirty diaper
If i'm back at mommy's boob
Call in the frickin' snipers
And just shoot me, baby

Dip me in the river
You'll never wash my dirt away
Rip out my liver, baby
But be next to me

Just don't feed me with no tube
Or change my dirty diaper
If i'm back at mommy's boob
Call in the frickin' snipers
And just shoot me, baby

You try to play it cool, but you're pissed with me
In the swimming pool where you kissed with me
You're a shiny jewel, two-fistin' drinks on me
You're a killing tool, you're getting pissed with me

Pissed with me, baby
All night long
Pissed with me, baby
All night long

Another drink and a little ice
Would be quite good, i think, baby, don't think twice
You say we're kissin' cousins, well that's very nice
Baby, i've kissed dozens, you've got that extra spice

Kissin' with me, baby
All night long
Kissin' with me, baby
All night long

I've been having some trouble, someone's dickin' with me
I think i must have a double who's been frickin' with me
Well, he seems like fun, he looks just like me
He's doing everyone, so you be stickin' with me

Stickin' with me, baby
All night long
Stickin' with me, baby
All night long
Pissed with me, baby
All night long
Kissin' with me, baby
All night long

When i wake up, well, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When i go out, yeah, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you

If i get drunk, well, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if i haver, hey, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you

But i would walk five hundred miles
And i would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When i'm working, yes, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money comes in for the work i do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you

When i come home, oh, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if i grow old, well, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you

But i would walk five hundred miles
And i would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When i'm lonely, well, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
And when i'm dreamin' well, i know i'm gonna dream
I'm gonna dream about the time when i'm with you

When i go out, well, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
When i come home, yes, i know i'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home with you
I'm gonna be the man who's coming home with you

But i would walk five hundred miles
And i would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

And i would walk five hundred miles
And i would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

I've sharpened all my tools
I follow all the rules
I'm a handyman
I've purchased all my sweets
I've cooked up all my treats
I'm a candyman

It's alright, baby, 'cause i'm the candyman
It's alright, baby, he's the candyman

Look inside my head
C'mon inside my shed
I'm a handyman
Well, i've got a little sugar
Won't you come a little closer?
I'm a handy candyman

It's alright, baby, i'm the candyman
It's alright, baby, he's the handy candyman

I'll hide it if you steal it
I'll soothe you if you feel it
I'm the handy candyman
I'll be gentle if you take it
Don't know how else i can say it
I'm the randy handy candyman

It's alright, baby, 'cause i'm the randy handy candyman
It's alright baby

There's some stuff on my shoe
That's got nothing to do
With the places you think that i've been
And the stuff on my breath
Isn't some kiss of death
From the people you think i've been seeing

Could i please be excused? i'm very confused
I think i'd better have a little something
I think i'd like to have a little something

Though you probably forget
There's a place that we met
When we first started lying at night
It was good on the car
You would go pretty far
And you seemed like you wanted a fight

Could i please be excused? i'm very confused
I think i'd better have a little something
I think i'd like to have a little something
I think i'd better have a little something
I think i'd like to have a little something

There's a star in the sky
It's caught my eye
And i'm sure that i've seen it before
It was quite long ago
And we stood on the snow
But i can't recall where anymore

Could i please be excused? i'm very confused
I think i'd better have a little something
I think i'd like to have a little something
I think i'd better have a little something
I think i'd like to have a little something

Don't call my name out your window, i'm leavin'
I won't even turn my head
Don't send your kinfolks to give me no talkin'
I'll be gone, like i said
You'd say the same old thing that you been sayin' all along
Lay there in your bed, keep your mouth shut 'til i'm gone
Don't give me that old familiar cry 'n' cuss 'n' moan
Understand your man
I'm tired of your bad mouthin'
Understand your man

You can give my other suit to the salvation army
And ev'rything else i leave behind
I ain't takin' nothin that'll slow down my travelin'
While i'm untanglin' my mind
I ain't gonna repeat what i said anymore
While i'm breathin' air that ain't been breathed before
I'll be as gone as a wild goose in winter
Then you'll understand your man
Meditate on it
Understand your man
D'ya hear me talkin'
Understand your man
Remember what i told ya
Understand your man . . .

Mccormack and richard tauber are sitting by the bed
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
Gimme one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands

When you pissed yourself in frankfurt and got syph down in cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in madrid
And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was screaming at all the yids
At the sick bed of cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in his chair

And in the euston tavern you said it was your show
But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out
They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains
So you walked back in through the revolving door and did it all again
At the sick bed of cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in his chair

Do you remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl?
There were lazy drunken bastards singing billy and the bowl
They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch
So you dropped a button in the pledge and spewed up in the church

Now you'll sing a song of liberty with blacks and paks and jocks
And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box
Then they'll take you to cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you'll stick your head back out and shout "we'll have another round"
At the sick bed of cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in his chair

I'm all freaked out
I'm all tweaked out
I'm being chased by insects
And i wanna eat my cigarettes
I can't hang out
I'm all strung out
I've got to grab me by the throat
I've got to herd me like a goat

A cigarette is all you get
So hold your fire, don't light it yet

I'm all mixed up
I gotta fix me up
I wanna pull my tongue out
And turn my nostrils inside out
I'm all dried up
I'm all fried up
I wanna burn things now and then
If i've been talkin' to businessmen

A cigarette is all you get
So hold your fire, don't light it yet

I'm all shook up
I wanna get hooked up
I wanna listen to elvis
I wanna shake my pelvis
I wanna take the train downtown
I wanna hear some junior brown
I wanna move my groovy hips
I wanna bite my shaky lips

A cigarette is all you get
So hold your fire, don't light it yet

In the merry month of june from me home i started
Left the girls of tuam a-really broken-hearted
Saluted father dear, kissed me darlin' mother
Drank a pint of beer, me grief and fears to smother
Then off to reave the corn, leave where i was born
With a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins,
A bran'new pair of brogues, rattling o'er the bogs
And frightening all the dogs on the rocky road to dublin

One two three four five, hunt the hare and turn him
Down the rocky road, and all the way to dublin
Whack fol-lol-de-ra

In mullingar that night i rested limbs so weary
Started by daylight next morning light and airy
Took a drop of the pure to keep me heart from sinking
That's the paddy's cure, whene'er he's on for drinking
See the lasses smile, laughing all the while
At me curious style, 'twould set your heart a-bubbling
They'd ask me was i hired, the wages i required
Till i was nearly tired of the rocky road to dublin

One two three four five, hunt the hare and turn him
Down the rocky road, and all the way to dublin
Whack fol-lol-de-ra

In dublin next arrived, i thought it such a pity
To be so soon deprived a view of that fine city
So then i took a stroll all among the quality
Me bundle it was stole in a neat locality
Something crossed me mind, when i looked behind
No bundle could i find upon me stick a-wobblin'
Enquiring for the rogue, they said me connaught brogue
Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to dublin

One two three four five, hunt the hare and turn him
Down the rocky road, and all the way to dublin
Whack fol-lol-de-ra

From there i got away me spirits never failing
Landed on the quay just as the ship was sailing
The captain at me roared, said that no room had he
When i jumped aboard, a cabin found for paddy
Down among the pigs, i played some bonny rigs
Danced some hearty jigs, the water round me bubblin'
When off t'holyhead i wished meself was dead,
Or better far, instead, on the rocky road to dublin

One two three four five, hunt the hare and turn him
Down the rocky road, and all the way to dublin
Whack fol-lol-de-ra

The boys of liverpool, when we safely landed
Called meself a fool, i could no longer stand it
Me blood began to boil, temper i was losin'
Poor old erin's isle they began abusin'
"hurrah me soul!" sez i, shillelagh i let fly
Galway boys were nigh and saw i was a hobblin'
With a loud "hurrah," joinin' in the fray
We quickly cleared the way for the rocky road to dublin

One two three four five, hunt the hare and turn him
Down the rocky road, and all the way to dublin
Whack fol-lol-de-ra