The Rocky Road to Dublin Lyrics
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road and all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-la-de-da!
no one else commented on this song even though it kicks ass so i think i will thats all i have to say
my favorite verions is the dubliners'.
i think that this song really has a great kick to it...u can dance and have fun w/ it and do wutever, it's a good time song and it's kicks ass! SMILE
yeah, it has a cool kinda feel to it, rhythmically it has a strange progression, but it is cool. It really is a fun kinda song, and lyrically, I think it's about this guy that travels hard all the way to Dublin, but when he gets there it is shitty, so he comes back and gets made fun off, so a drunken brawl ensues...I could be wrong, but it's a cool song nonetheless.
ql song, very quick, it leaves you with some feeling I can't describe. Ure like on speed or smthn :) thumbs up!
this version is great, but The Chieftains do a version with The Rolling Stones that blows this one away.
I've heard a "traditional" version of this song and compared to the DKM one, it is crap. It's way slower and doesn't get the same beat going.
Madcap, you're slightly off. He leaves Tuam (in the west) to look for work in Dublin. When he gets there, he's not welcome (because Dublin people traditionally don't like anybody from outside the city) and so he jumps on a boat going to England. When he gets to Liverpool (in England, not Galway), a bunch of English guys start slagging him for begin Irish, so he gets annoyed and starts into them with his shillelagh. A bunch of other Irish guys (from Galway, where Tuam is) see he's in trouble and join in the fight. Wherever the guy goes, he's not welcome and he has to fight his way through life. Very Irish. One other thing, for some reason the lyrics here say "daddy" instead of "Paddy". What's that about? Maybe it's not widely known that Irish are derisively referred to as Paddies? It's because we're all called Patrick, apparently. Similar to the American "Yankee", I suppose. And, Rover, I like the original. If you hear it sung well it can be just as fast as the DKM version. The main difference is that there's no punk instruments in the background (in fact, the best version I heard was sung with just a bodhran in the background. BTW, for anybody unfamiliar with Irish music in the audience, a Bodhran is a type of drum. Google it.)
if you listen to the song carefully you can hear that it DOES say " Paddys Cure"
it's pretty obvious that it says paddy both times (cabin found for paddy/that's the paddy's cure) and it is a derisive word for the irish, but I know a lot of irish and irish-americans who use it in jest, much like any other ethnic group uses derisve words in closed circles as loving terms. for example, every time i go to the bar, the bar-tender and I take a shot "for paddy," although I must say I'm a bit bewildered by the substitution of D's for T's, although I'm sure it has something to do with the original gaelic spelling