The Sea Around Us - Patsy Watchorn
They say that the lakes
Of Killarney are fair
That no stream like
The Liffey can ever compare
If it's water you want
You'll find nothing more rare
Than the stuff they
Make down by the ocean
The sea oh the sea is
The gradh geal more croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee
That some hour we'll be free
Oh thank God we're surrounded by water
Tom Moore made his
Waters meet fame and renown
A great lover of anything
Dressed in a crown
In brandy the bandy old Saxon he'd drown
But throw never a one in the ocean
The sea oh the sea is
The gradh geal more croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee
That some hour we'll be free
Oh thank God we're surrounded by water
The Scots have their Whisky
The Welsh have their speech
And their poets are paid
About ten pence a week
Provided no hard words
On England they speak
Oh Lord what a price for devotion
The Danes came to Ireland
With nothing to do
But dream of the
Plundered old Irish they slew
Yeh will in yer Vikings
Said Brian Boru
And threw them back into the ocean
Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join
Each wanting his head on the back of a coin;
If the Irish had sense
They'd drowned both in the Boyne
And partition thrown into the ocean
The sea oh the sea is
The gradh geal more croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee
That some hour we'll be free
Oh thank God we're surrounded by water