Fiddlers Green



As I walked by the dockside one evening so fair

To view the salt water and take the sea air

I heard an old fisherman singing a song

Won't you take me away boys my time is not long







CHORUS: Wrap me up in me oilskins and jumper

no more on the docks I'll be seen

Just tell me old ship mates I'm taking a trip mates

And I'll see you someday in Fiddlers Green



Now Fiddlers Green is a place I hear tell

Where fishermen go if they don't go to hell

Where the skies are all clear and the dolphins do play

And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away



When you get to the docks and the long trip is thru

There's pub and there's clubs and there's lassies there too

Where the girls are all pretty and beer it is free

And there's bottles of rum growing from every tree



Now I don't want a harp or a halo, not me

Just give me a breeze and a good rolling sea

I'll play me old squeeze box as we sail along

With the wind in the rigging to sing us a song