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
Rock me up in me oilskins and ranker
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking 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
Rock me up in me oilskins and ranker
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday in fiddler's green
Rock me up in me oilskins and ranker
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday in fiddler's green
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 growing off every tree
Rock me up in me oilskins and ranker
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday in fiddler's green
Oh I don't want a harp nor a halo not me
Just give me a breeze and a good rolling sea
And I'll play me auld squeezebox as we sail along
With the wind in the rigging to sing me this song
Rock me up in me oilskins and ranker
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday in fiddler's green