Dominic Behan – The Grand Canal

Dominic Behan – The Grand Canal Lyrics

Artist: Dominic Behan
Song: The Grand Canal

Three months before the month of June
It was the month of March
When we set out from Dublin town
With a cargo of roasted starch

The skipper’s name was “Robinson”
He guided the vessel’s course
While I was the second engineer
The man that drove the horse

The ship she was a dainty ship
A slender ship was she
And though she shaped up like a barge
She wasn’t called a “he”

I drove all over the land with her
From Tullamore to Kinnegad
How she could ride the surf with pride
Along the Grand Canal!

For more than forty years
There was no water in the sea
So the skipper got on his bicycle
To see where it could be

He hadn’t gone away a year
When up there came a gale
So to keep the ship from gettin’ wet
We hung it on a nail

Me father was a sailor too
And his before he was
He called me “Romping Molly Blue”
In honour of the horse

And I hope and pray my children may
Be like I was, enthralled
At the men and ships and mares who slip
Along the Grand Canal
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Release Year: 2012