Fiddler's Green

Fiddler’s Green

As I strolled by the dockside one evening so fair
To view the salt water and take in sea air
I heard an old fisherman singing a song
Won’t you take me away boys my time is not long

Chorus:
Wrap me up in me oilskins and jumper
No more by the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday on Fiddler’s Green

Now Fiddler's Green is a place I hear tell
Where fishermen go if they don't go to hell
The skies are all clear and the dolphins do play
And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away

Chorus:
Wrap me up in me oilskins and jumper
No more by the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday on Fiddler’s Green

Where the weather is fair and there's never a gale
And the fish jump aboard with a flip of their tail
You lie at your leisure, there's no work to do
And the skipper below’s making tea for the crew

Chorus:
Wrap me up in me oilskins and jumper
No more by the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday on Fiddler’s Green

When you get to the docks then the long trip is through
There’s clubs and there's pubs and there's lassies there too
The girls are all pretty, the beer it is free
And bottles of rum growing from every tree

Chorus:
Wrap me up in me oilskins and jumper
No more by the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday on Fiddler’s Green

Now I don't want a harp nor a halo, not me
Just give me a breeze and a good rolling sea
I'll play me old squeeze-box as we sail along
With the wind in me riggin’s and singing a song

Chorus:
Wrap me up in me oilskins and jumper
No more by the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday on Fiddlers Green

Chorus:
Wrap me up in me oilskins and jumper
No more by the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates I'm taking a trip mates
I'll see you someday on Fiddlers Green