Keg of Brandy

Описание: “Keg of Brandy,” On the album The Love of the Land, 1989 Green Linnet Records). Click "more" for lyrics and details. Please click on Subscribe and Notifications to know when the next song is posted. And while you're here, give us a "Thumbs Up" so others will be more likely to find us -- it's an "algorithm" thing.

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From the album liner notes (The Love of the Land on Green Linnet Records):
Robbie O’Connell—Vocal and Guitar
Eileen Ivers—Fiddle
Seamus Egan—Whistle

Production Information:
Recorded at Wellspring Sound Studio, 960 BEacon Street, Newton, Massachusetts
Engineer, Eric Kilburn • Additional engineering, Cyril Lance
Produced by Robbie O’Connell

KEG OF BRANDY
Adapted with new music © Robbie O’Connell 1987 Slievenamon Music (BMI)

Lyrics:

I'm always drunk and I'm seldom sober,
I'm constant rovin' from town to town.
Ah but I'm old now, my sporting's over
So, Molly, a stóir, won't you lay me down.

Refrain:
Just lay my head on a keg of brandy,
It is my fancy, I do declare,
For while I'm drinking, I'm always thinking'
On lovely Molly from the County Clare.

For the ripest apple is the soonest rotten
And the warmest love is the soonest cold.
And a young man's fancy is soon forgotten,
So beware young maids and don't make so bold.

It's youth and folly makes young men marry,
And makes them tarry a long, long day.
What can't be cured, love, must be endured love,
So farewell darling, I'm going away.