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Charlie Robison - John O'Reilly Lyrics

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  • My name is John O'Reilly
  • And my father worked the fields
  • In the hills of old Kilarny
  • Where I helped him turn the wheels
  • My arms grew hard as iron for a boy of 17
  • And I used my fists for gambling in those wet Kilarny streets
  • Well the ship left for America and I brought my pack aboard
  • Said goodbye to my dear Ireland said a prayer to my dear Lord
  • I fought those sorry guineas in the kitchen they called hell
  • I fought them for their dollar and those guineas paid me well
  • Chorus
  • Fair thee well fair Dover
  • Fair thee well your seasons turn
  • For my pockets will be jingling on the day of my return
  • The day of my return
  • I fought in New York City and I fought the Jersey shore
  • My gut stayed full of whiskey and my bed stayed full of whores
  • They called my right a cannonball and my left they called the same
  • I left em' all lyin' half in blood and half in shame
  • I met a man on '32 and he stuck out his hand
  • And he offered me a thousand if I'd fall before his man
  • I said it could be done but only for another two
  • He smiled at me and nodded as I stuck it in my shoe
  • Chorus
  • Fair thee well fair Dover
  • Fair thee well your seasons turn
  • For my pockets will be jingling on the day of my return
  • The day of my return
  • They rang the bell two times before I let him have my nose
  • And I let him work my left until my eye was swollen closed
  • Then I let loose a right that they still talk about today
  • For that guinea didn't know that I had bet the other way
  • They covered every dock and every port there on the coast
  • Looking for that double crosser who had turned into a ghost
  • But I was on a train my friend that rode the other way
  • And i'll sail from California back to Dublin one fine day

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