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Abbey Tavern Singers - Off To Dublin In The Green
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Off To Dublin In The Green:Abbey Tavern Singers.
#40 Adult Contemp. & #94 on Hot 100 in 1966.
#1.
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I am a merry ploughboy and I ploughed the fields all day.
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Till a sudden thought came into my head, that I should
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roam away.
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For I'm tired of civilian life, since the day that I was born.
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So, I�m off to join the I.R.A. and I�m off tomorrow morn.
CHORUS:
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So, we�re off to Dublin' in the green, in the green,
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where the helmets glisten in the sun.
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Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash to the
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echo of a Thompson Gun.
#2.
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Oh, I leave behind my old gray home, I leave behind my plough.
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And I leave behind my old gray mare, for no more I�ll need 'em now.
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And I leave behind my Mary, she�s the one that I adore.
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And I wonder will she think of me, when she hears the rifles roar.
CHORUS:
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So, we�re off to Dublin' in the green, in the green,
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where the helmets glisten in the sun.
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Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash to the
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echo of a Thompson Gun.
#3.
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Oh, some men fight for silver and some men fight for gold.
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But the I.R.A. are fighting for the land the Saxons stole.
CHORUS:
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So, we�re off to Dublin' in the green, in the green,
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where the helmets glisten in the sun.
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Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash to the
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echo of a Thompson Gun.
#4.
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And when the war is over and dear old Ireland's free.
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I will take her to the church to wed, a rebel's wife she�ll be.
CHORUS:
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So, we�re off to Dublin' in the green, in the green,
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where the helmets glisten in the sun.
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Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash to the
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echo of a Thompson Gun.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.