[ti:Nell Flaherty's Drake]
[ar:The Clancy Brothers]
[al:Irish Folk & St. Patrick's Classics]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Nell Flaherty's Drake - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem
[00:04.56]Oh my name it is Nell and the truth for to tell
[00:07.87]I come from Cootehill which I'll never deny
[00:11.57]I had a fine drake and I'd die for his sake
[00:15.15]That me grandmother left me and she goin' to die
[00:19.14]The dear little fellow his legs they were yellow
[00:22.66]He could fly like a swallow or swim like a hake
[00:26.23]Till some dirty savage to grease his white cabbage
[00:30.16]Most wantonly murdered me beautiful drake
[00:34.65]Now his neck it was green almost fit to be seen
[00:37.81]He was fit for a queen of the highest degree
[00:41.66]His body was white and it would you delight
[00:45.18]He was plump fat and heavy and brisk as a bee
[00:48.94]He was wholesome and sound he would weigh twenty pound
[00:52.46]And the universe round I would roam for his sake
[00:56.09]Bad luck to the robber be he drunk or sober
[00:59.82]That murdered Nell Flaherty's beautiful drake
[01:04.53]May his spade never dig may his sow never pig
[01:07.85]May each hair in his wig be well trashed with the flail
[01:11.59]My his door never latch may his roof have no thatch
[01:14.83]May his turkeys not hatch may the rats eat his meal
[01:18.65]May every old fairy from Cork to Dun Laoghaire
[01:22.29]Dip him snug and airy in river or lake
[01:25.82]That the eel and the trout they may dine on the snout
[01:29.21]Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's drake
[01:34.14]May his pig never grunt may his cat never hunt
[01:37.33]May a ghost ever haunt him the dead of the night
[01:41.04]May his hens never lay may his horse never neigh
[01:44.69]May his coat fly away like an old paper kite
[01:48.35]That the flies and the fleas may the wretch ever tease
[01:52.03]May the piercin' March breeze make him shiver and shake
[01:55.69]May a lump of the stick raise the bumps fast and quick
[01:59.25]On the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's drake
[02:03.87]Well the only good news that I have to infuse
[02:07.08]Is that old Paddy Hughes and young Anthony Blake
[02:10.83]Also Johnny Dwyer and Corney Maguire
[02:14.08]They each have a grandson of my darlin' drake
[02:18.07]May treasure had dozens of nephews and cousins
[02:21.67]And one I must get or me heart it will break
[02:25.30]For to set me mind easy or else I'll run crazy
[02:29.18]So ends the whole song of Nell Flaherty's drake