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Child Ballad #286
These lyrics as performed by Dan Milner on Irish Pirate Ballads and other Songs of the Sea by Smithsonian Folkways. The Clancy Brothers also did a popular version.
These lyrics as performed by Dan Milner on Irish Pirate Ballads and other Songs of the Sea by Smithsonian Folkways. The Clancy Brothers also did a popular version.
Lowlands Low, The
by PJ McCall
[D] Dunmore we quitted,
Michaelmas gone by,
[G] Cow hides and [D] wool,
and [G] live car- [A] go
[D] Twenty young Wild Geese
Ready fledged to fly
[G] Sailing for the [A] Lowlands [D] Low
Chorus
The [G] Lowlands [D] Low
The [A7] Lowlands [D] Low
[G] Sailing for the [A] Lowlands [D] Low
Shaun Poer's the skipper,
From the church of Crook
Piery keeps log for his father
Crew all from Bannow,
Fethard and The Hook
Sailing for the Lowlands Low
Chorus
whistle over verse and chorus
These twenty Wild Geese
Gave Queen Anne the slip.
Crossing to Lewey in Flanders
He and Jack Malbrook
Both are in a grip
Sailing for the Lowlands Low
Chorus
Close lay a rover
Off the Isle of Wight,
Either a Salee or Saxon [eye-ther]
Out through a sea mist
We bade them good night, [bad them]
Sailing for the Lowlands Low
Chorus
whistle over verse and chorus
Ready with priming
We'd our galliot gun
Muskets and pikes in good order
Should we be riddled
Captives would be none
Death! or else the Lowlands Low
Chorus
Pray, holy Brendan,
Turk nor Algerine,
Dutchman nor Saxon may sink us
We'll bring Geneva
Sack and Rhenish wines
Safely from the Lowlands Low
Chorus x2
fiddle and whistle over verse and chorus x2
Michaelmas gone by,
[G] Cow hides and [D] wool,
and [G] live car- [A] go
[D] Twenty young Wild Geese
Ready fledged to fly
[G] Sailing for the [A] Lowlands [D] Low
Chorus
The [G] Lowlands [D] Low
The [A7] Lowlands [D] Low
[G] Sailing for the [A] Lowlands [D] Low
Shaun Poer's the skipper,
From the church of Crook
Piery keeps log for his father
Crew all from Bannow,
Fethard and The Hook
Sailing for the Lowlands Low
Chorus
whistle over verse and chorus
These twenty Wild Geese
Gave Queen Anne the slip.
Crossing to Lewey in Flanders
He and Jack Malbrook
Both are in a grip
Sailing for the Lowlands Low
Chorus
Close lay a rover
Off the Isle of Wight,
Either a Salee or Saxon [eye-ther]
Out through a sea mist
We bade them good night, [bad them]
Sailing for the Lowlands Low
Chorus
whistle over verse and chorus
Ready with priming
We'd our galliot gun
Muskets and pikes in good order
Should we be riddled
Captives would be none
Death! or else the Lowlands Low
Chorus
Pray, holy Brendan,
Turk nor Algerine,
Dutchman nor Saxon may sink us
We'll bring Geneva
Sack and Rhenish wines
Safely from the Lowlands Low
Chorus x2
fiddle and whistle over verse and chorus x2