Lyrics - Quare Bungle Rye by Clancy Brothers

Now
Jack was a sailor who roamed on the town
And she was a damsel who skipped up and down
Said the damsel to
Jack as she passed him by
Would you care for to purchase somequare bungle rye roddy rye?
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye
Thought
Jack to himself, "
Now what can this be?
But the finest of whiskey from far
Germany
Smuggled up in a basket and sold on the sly
And the name that it goes by isquare bungle rye roddy rye?
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye"
Jack gave her a pound and he thought nothing strange
Said she, "
Hold the basket till
I get you your change"
Jack looked in the basket and a baby did spy
Oh,
Begorrah, said
Jack, this isquare bungle rye roddy rye?
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye
Now to get the child christened was
Jack's first intent
For to get the child christened, to the parson he went
Says the parson to
Jack, "
What will he go by?"
Begorrah, says
Jack,
Call himquare bungle rye roddy rye?
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye
Said the parson to
Jack, "
That's a mighty queer name"
Says
Jack to the parson, "
It's a queer way he came
Smuggled up in a basket and sold on the sly
And the name that he'll go by isquare bungle rye roddy rye?
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye
Now all you young sailors who roam on the town
Beware of those damsels who skip up and down
Take a look in their basket as they pass you by
Or else they may sell you somequare bungle rye roddy rye?
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

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