FIDDLER'S GREEN
As I roved by the dockside on evening so rare
To view the still waters and take the salt air
I heard
an old fisherman singing this song
O take me away boys my time is not long
Chorus
Dress me up in me oilskin and jumper
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates
I'm
taking a trip, mates
And I'll see them someday in Fiddler's Green
Now Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell
Where fishermen go when 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
Chorus
Dress me up in me oilskin and jumper
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates
I'm
taking a trip, mates
And I'll see them someday in Fiddler's Green
The sky's always clear and there's never a gale
And the fish jump on board with a flip of their tail
You
can lie at your leisure, there's no work to do
And the skipper's below making tea for the crew
Chorus
Dress me up in me oilskin and jumper
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates
I'm
taking a trip, mates
And I'll see them someday in Fiddler's Green
And when you're in dock and the long trip is thru
There's pubs and there's clubs, and there's lassies
there too
Now the girls are all pretty and the beer is all free
And there's bottles of rum hanging from every tree
Chorus
Dress me up in me oilskin and jumper
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates
I'm
taking a trip, mates
And I'll see them someday in Fiddler's Green
I don't want a harp or a halo, not me
Just give me a breeze and a good rolling sea
And I'll play me
old squeeze box as we sail along
When the wind's in the rigging to sing me this song
Chorus
Dress me up in me oilskin and jumper
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates
I'm
taking a trip, mates
And I'll see them someday in Fiddler's Green
