Irish Rovers Fiddler`s Green Lyrics

Fiddler`s Green Lyrics

As I walked by the dockside one evening so rare

To view the still waters
and take the salt air

I heard an old fisherman singing this song,

Oh take me away boys, me time is not long



(chorus): Lock me up
in me oilskins and jumper

No more on the docks I'll be seen

Just
tell me old shipmates I'm takin a trip mates

I'll see you someday in
Fiddler's Green



Oh in Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard
tell

 Where sailormen go if they don't go to hell

Where the weather
is fair and the dolphins do play

 And the cold coast of Greenland is far
far away



(chorus)



Where the skies are all clear and
there's never a gale 

And the fish jump on board with a swish of their
tails 

Where you lie at your leisure - there's no work to do 

And
the skipper's below making tea for the crew



 (chorus)



Oh and when you are docked and the long trip is through

There's pubs
and there's clubs and there's lassies there too

Where the girls are all
pretty and the beer is all free

And there's bottles of rum growin off
every tree



(chorus)



Oh I don't want a harp nor a
halo, not me

Just give me a breeze and a good rollin sea

And I'll
play me auld squeezebox as we sail along

With the wind in the riggin to
sing me this song



(chorus)