《Nell Flaherty’s Drake》歌词

[00:00:00] Nell Flaherty's Drake - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

[00:00:04] Oh my name it is Nell and the truth for to tell

[00:00:07] I come from Cootehill which I'll never deny

[00:00:11] I had a fine drake and I'd die for his sake

[00:00:15] That me grandmother left me and she goin' to die

[00:00:19] The dear little fellow his legs they were yellow

[00:00:22] He could fly like a swallow or swim like a hake

[00:00:26] Till some dirty savage to grease his white cabbage

[00:00:30] Most wantonly murdered me beautiful drake

[00:00:34] Now his neck it was green almost fit to be seen

[00:00:37] He was fit for a queen of the highest degree

[00:00:41] His body was white and it would you delight

[00:00:45] He was plump fat and heavy and brisk as a bee

[00:00:48] He was wholesome and sound he would weigh twenty pound

[00:00:52] And the universe round I would roam for his sake

[00:00:56] Bad luck to the robber be he drunk or sober

[00:00:59] That murdered Nell Flaherty's beautiful drake

[00:01:04] May his spade never dig may his sow never pig

[00:01:07] May each hair in his wig be well trashed with the flail

[00:01:11] My his door never latch may his roof have no thatch

[00:01:14] May his turkeys not hatch may the rats eat his meal

[00:01:18] May every old fairy from Cork to Dun Laoghaire

[00:01:22] Dip him snug and airy in river or lake

[00:01:25] That the eel and the trout they may dine on the snout

[00:01:29] Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's drake

[00:01:34] May his pig never grunt may his cat never hunt

[00:01:37] May a ghost ever haunt him the dead of the night

[00:01:41] May his hens never lay may his horse never neigh

[00:01:44] May his coat fly away like an old paper kite

[00:01:48] That the flies and the fleas may the wretch ever tease

[00:01:52] May the piercin' March breeze make him shiver and shake

[00:01:55] May a lump of the stick raise the bumps fast and quick

[00:01:59] On the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's drake

[00:02:03] Well the only good news that I have to infuse

[00:02:07] Is that old Paddy Hughes and young Anthony Blake

[00:02:10] Also Johnny Dwyer and Corney Maguire

[00:02:14] They each have a grandson of my darlin' drake

[00:02:18] May treasure had dozens of nephews and cousins

[00:02:21] And one I must get or me heart it will break

[00:02:25] For to set me mind easy or else I'll run crazy

[00:02:29] So ends the whole song of Nell Flaherty's drake