Pub Sing

Pub Sing

Join us for our ‘end of day’ pub sing with the entire cast and village of Kimmendale on our GoodKnight Stage! This gathering showcases our village musicians taking turns performing some of their greatest songs, encouraging you to join in! Below are the songs traditionally sung along at our pub sing!

Health To The Company

-traditional-

Kind friends and companions come join me in rhyme.
Come lift up your voices in chorus with mine.
Let us drink and be merry, all grief to refrain
for we may and might never all meet here again.

Chorus:
So here’s a health to the company, and one to my lass.
Let us drink and be merry all out of one glass.
Let us drink and be merry all grief to refrain.
For we may and might never all meet here again.
Well, here’s a health to the wee lass that I love so well.
For style and for beauty, there are none can excel.
She smiles on my countenance as she sits on my knee;
sure there’s no one on earth as happy as me.

Chorus:
Our ship lies at harbor. she’s ready to dock.
I wish her safe landing without any shock.
And if ever we meet again by land or by sea,
sure I’m always rememberin’ your kindness to me.

Chorus:

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Wild Mountain Thyme

Oh the summertime is comin’
And the trees are sweetly bloomin’
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the bloomin’ heather

Chorus:
Will ye go, lassie, go
And we’ll all go together
To the wild mountain thyme
All around the bloomin’ heather

Will ye go, lassie, go
I will build my love a bower
By yon pure crystal fountain
And on it I will pile
All the flowers of the mountain

Chorus:
And if my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
Where the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the bloomin’ heather

Chorus:

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Mary Mac

There’s a cute little las and her name is Mari Mac
And make no mistake she’s the girl I’m gonna track
Lots of other fellas try to get her on the back.
But I’m thinkin’ they’ll have to get up early.

Chorus:
Mari Macs mother’s makin’ Mari Mac marry me
My mother’s makin’ me marry Mari Mac
Well I’m gonna marry Mari cause Mari’s takin’ care o’ me.
We’ll all be feelin’ marry when I marry Mari Mac.

Now Mari and her mother are an awful lot together
In fact you hardly see the one without the other
And people often wonder if it’s Mari or her mother
Or both of them together I’m courting

Chorus:
Well up among the heather in the hills of Benafee
Well I had a Bonnie lass sittin’ on my knee
A bumble bee stung me right above the knee
Up among the heather in the hills of Benafee

Chorus:
Well I said to bonnie lass how we gonna pass the day
She said among the heather in the hills of Benafee
Where all the boys and girls are making up a fray
Up among the heather in the hills of Benafee

Chorus:
Wedding’s on a Wednesday, everything’s arranged
Soon you’ll never change your mind unless you minus change
Of making the arrangements and feelings lots of rage
Marriage is an awful undertaking

Chorus:
Sure to be a grand for grand of that a fair
Gonna be a fork and plate for every man thats there
And I’ll be a bugger if I don’t get my share
All though I may be very much mistaken

Chorus:
There’s a neat little las and her name is Mari Mac
Make no mistake, she’s the girl I’m gonna track
Lot’s of other fellas try to get her on her back
But I think they’re gonna have to get up early

Chorus:

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Johnny Jump Up

Come and listen, I’ll tell you what happened to me
One day as I went down to Cork by the sea
The day it was hot and the sun it was warm,
So says I a quiet pint wouldn’t do me no harm
I went in and I called for a bottle of stout
Says the barman, I’m sorry, all the beer is sold out
Try whiskey or paddy, ten years in the wood
Says I, I’ll try cider, I’ve heard it was good.

Chorus:
Oh never, Oh never, Oh never again
If I live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten
I fell to the ground and I couldn’t get up
After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up

Ahhh…
After downing the third I went out to the yard
Where I bumped into Brody, the big civic guard
Come here to me boy, don’t you know I’m the law?
Well, I up with me fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up
But it wasn’t I hit him, ’twas Johnny Jump Up
The next thing I remember down in Cork by the sea
Was a cripple on crutches and says he to me
I’m afraid of me life I’ll be hit by a car
Won’t you help me across to the Celtic Knot Bar?
After drinking a quart of that cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and danced on his feet

Chorus:
I went down the lee road, a friend for to see
They call it the madhouse in Cork by the Sea
Well when I got there, sure the truth I will tell,
They had this poor bugger locked up in a cell
Said the guard, testing him, say these words if you can
Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
Tell him I’m not crazy, tell him I’m not mad
It was only a sip of the bottle I had

Chorus:
A man died in the mines by the name of McNabb
They washed him and laid him outside on the slab
Well after the parlors measurements did take
His wife brought him home to a bloody fine wake
Twas about 12 o’clock and the beer was high
The corpse sits up and says with a sigh
I can’t get to heaven, they won’t let me up
‘Til I bring them a quart of the Johnny Jump Up

Chorus:
So if ever you go down to Cork by the sea
Stay out of the ale house and take it from me
If you want to stay sane don’t you dare take a sup
Of that devil drink cider called Johnny Jump Up

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Wild Rover

I’ve been a wild rover for many a year
And I spent all my money on whiskey and beer,
And now I’m returning with gold in great store
And I never will play the wild rover no more.

Chorus:
And it’s no, nay, never,
No nay never no more,
Will I play the wild rover
No never no more.

I went to an ale-house I used to frequent
And I told the landlady my money was spent.
I asked her for credit, she answered me “nay
Such a custom as yours I could have any day.”

Chorus:
I took from my pocket ten sovereigns bright
And the landlady’s eyes opened wide with delight.
She said “I have whiskey and wines of the best
And the words that I spoke sure were only in jest.”

Chorus:
I’ll go home to my parents, confess what I’ve done
And I’ll ask them to pardon their prodigal son.
And if they caress (forgive) me as oft times before
Sure I never will play the wild rover no more.

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Johnny Jump Up

Come and listen, I’ll tell you what happened to me
One day as I went down to Cork by the sea
The day it was hot and the sun it was warm,
So says I a quiet pint wouldn’t do me no harm
I went in and I called for a bottle of stout
Says the barman, I’m sorry, all the beer is sold out
Try whiskey or paddy, ten years in the wood
Says I, I’ll try cider, I’ve heard it was good.

Chorus:
Oh never, Oh never, Oh never again
If I live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten
I fell to the ground and I couldn’t get up
After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up

Ahhh…
After downing the third I went out to the yard
Where I bumped into Brody, the big civic guard
Come here to me boy, don’t you know I’m the law?
Well, I up with me fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up
But it wasn’t I hit him, ’twas Johnny Jump Up
The next thing I remember down in Cork by the sea
Was a cripple on crutches and says he to me
I’m afraid of me life I’ll be hit by a car
Won’t you help me across to the Celtic Knot Bar?
After drinking a quart of that cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and danced on his feet

Chorus:
I went down the lee road, a friend for to see
They call it the madhouse in Cork by the Sea
Well when I got there, sure the truth I will tell,
They had this poor bugger locked up in a cell
Said the guard, testing him, say these words if you can
Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
Tell him I’m not crazy, tell him I’m not mad
It was only a sip of the bottle I had

Chorus:
A man died in the mines by the name of McNabb
They washed him and laid him outside on the slab
Well after the parlors measurements did take
His wife brought him home to a bloody fine wake
Twas about 12 o’clock and the beer was high
The corpse sits up and says with a sigh
I can’t get to heaven, they won’t let me up
‘Til I bring them a quart of the Johnny Jump Up

Chorus:
So if ever you go down to Cork by the sea
Stay out of the ale house and take it from me
If you want to stay sane don’t you dare take a sup
Of that devil drink cider called Johnny Jump Up

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