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As I was walking down the road
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A feeling fine and larky oh
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A recruiting sergeant came up to me
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Says he you'd look fine in khaki oh
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For the King he is in need of men
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Come read this proclamation oh
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A life in Flanders for you then
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Would be a fine vacation now
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That maybe so says I to him
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But tell me sergeant dearie-oh
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If I had a pack stuck upon my back
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Would I look fine and cheerie oh
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For they'd have you train and drill until
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They had you one of Frenchies oh
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It may be warm in Flanders
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But it's draughty in the trenches oh
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The sergeant smiled and winked his eye
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His smile was most provoking oh
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He twiddled and twirled his wee moustache
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Says he I know you're only joking oh
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For the sandbags are so warm and high
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The wind you won't feel blowing oh
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Well I winked at a cailin passing by
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Says I what if it's snowing oh
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Come rain or hail or wind or snow
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I'm not going out to Flanders oh
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There's fighting in Dublin to be done
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Let your Sergeants and your Commanders go
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Let Englishmen fight English wars
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It's nearly time they started oh
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I saluted the Sergeant a very good night
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And there and then we parted oh
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As I went down to Galway Town
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To seek for recreation on the 17th of August
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Me mind being elevated
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There were passengers assembled
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With their tickets at the station
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And me eyes began to dazzle
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And they off to see the races
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With me wack fol the do fol
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The diddle idle day
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There were passengers from Limerick
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And passengers from Nenagh
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The boys of Connemara
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And the Clare unmarried maiden
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There were people from Cork City
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Who were loyal, true and faithful
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Who brought home the Fenian prisoners
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From dying in foreign nations
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With me wack fol the do fol
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The diddle idle day
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And it's there you'll see the pipers
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And the fiddlers competing
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And the sporting wheel of fortune
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And the four and twenty quarters
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And there's others without scruple
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Pelting wattles at poor Maggie
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And her father well contented
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And he gazing at his daughter
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With me wack fol the do fol
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The diddle idle day
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And it's there you'll see
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The jockeys and
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They mounted on so stably
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The pink, the blue, the orange, and green
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The colours of our nation
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The time it came for starting
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All the horses seemed impatient
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Their feet they hardly touched the ground
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The speed was so amazing!
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With me wack fol the do fol
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The diddle idle day
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There was half a million people there
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Of all dominations
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The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew
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The Presbyterian
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Yet no animosity
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Not matter what persuasion
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But failte hospitality
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Inducing fresh acquaintance
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With me wack fol the do fol
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The diddle idle day
The Pogues - Medley
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