"The rocky road to Dublin" is a 19th century ballad about a poor boy from Connaught who travels through Mullingar to Dublin, and on to Liverpool. He is robbed in Dublin, housed with pigs during the sea crossing to Holyhead, and taunted to fight in Liverpool. With the help of some boys from Galway, though, he gets his own back from the Liverpudlians.
In pointed response, then, to Deasy's (false) story of a Protestant nobleman putting on his "shiny topboots" to ride merrily down to Dublin from the north and affirm Ireland's glorious Union with Great Britain, Stephen recalls a popular account of a poor Catholic peasant trudging over rocky roads to Dublin from the west, looking for honest work and encountering disrespect, hatred, and abuse. Like Croppies Lie Down some ten lines earlier, the recollection of this line shows Stephen using music to silently resist his oppressor.
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The Rocky Road to Dublin is a great song, and the Dubliners have owned it since the 60s. Their masterful rendition of the fast 9/8 slip jig (almost rap-like in its constant verbal repetitions and echoes) can use some accompanying lyrics. Here is your annotator's best effort at transcribing a recent performance, with some language from earlier recordings when I cannot make out the words:
'Twas in the merry month of June when from me home I started,
Left the girls of Tuam, sadly broken hearted,
Saluted father dear, kissed me darling mother,
Drank a pint of beer, me tears and grief to smother,
Then off to reap the corn, and leave where I was born,
I cut a stout black thorn to banish ghosts and goblins;
A brand new pair of brogues to rattle o'er the bogs
And frighten all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin.
Lyrics:
First verse
Said Pat McGee, now listen to me, I've heard you fellows brag about your beauties over here, And the girls you love so dear. They may be swell, that's all very well at wearing fancy clothes. But I'd a queen, a fair colleen, as sweet as any rose. Oh, lady buck, oh, lady buck, think of my repose.
Chorus
Along the Rocky road to Dublin we were swinging along, Singing a song with joy me heart was bubblin' with Cordelia by me side, Sure every time I'd look in her roguish eyes of Irish blue, I couldn't help but feel very proud, that I was Irish too. All me thoughts of dear old Dublin seem to carry me back to a rickety shack. How I'd love to be there once again. Just like before, shure, only to love Cordelia more Along the rocky road to Dublin. Along the Rocky road to Dublin we were swinging along, Singing a song with joy me heart was bubblin' with Cordelia by me side, Sure every time I'd look in her roguish eyes of Irish blue, I couldn't help but feel very proud, that I was Irish too. All me thoughts of dear old Dublin seem to carry me back to a rickety shack. How I'd love to be there once again. Just like before, shure, only to love Cordelia more Along the rocky road to Dublin.
Second verse
The lakes and dells and old whishing wells We passed along the road among the shamrock covered hills Always filled our hearts with thrills; And all the while we sat on a stile, we kissed and kissed and kissed; For whisper, lad, the heart she had was bigger than your fist. Oh, lady buck, oh, lady buck, think of what you missed.
(Chorus)
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