Guitar Tutorial - The Irish Rover - Irish Folk Songs

Hi, Flynner here, with another great pub song for you to learn!
This video will teach you how to play this classic pub song, 'The Irish Rover'.
Lyrics;
On the fourth of July, 1806
We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the Grand City Hall in New York
'Twas a wonderful craft
She was rigged fore and aft
And oh, how the wild wind drove her
She stood several blasts
She had twenty-seven masts
And they called her The Irish Rover
We had one million bags of the best Sligo Rags
We had two million barrels of stone
We had three million sides of old blind horses hides
We had four million barrels of bones
We had five million hogs
Six million dogs
Seven million barrels of porter
We had eight million bails of old nanny goats' tails
In the hold of The Irish Rover
There was ol' Mickey Coote
Who played hard on his flute
When the ladies lined up for a set
He was tootin' with skill
For each sparkling quadrille
Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet
With his smart witty talk
He was cock of the walk
And he rolled the dames under and over
They all knew at a glance
When he took up his stance
That he sailed in The Irish Rover
There was Barney McGee
From the banks of the Lee
There was Hogan from County Tyrone
There was Johnny McGurk
Who was scared stiff of work
And a man from Westmeath called Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole
Who was drunk as a rule
And fighting Bill Treacy from Dover
And your man, Mick MacCann
From the banks of the Bann
Was the skipper on The Irish Rover
For the sailor it's always a bother in life
It's so lonesome by night and by day
That he longs for the shore
And a charming young whore
Who will melt all his troubles away
Oh, the noise and the rout
Swillin' poitin and stout
For him soon the torment's over
Of the love of a maid, he is never afraid
That old salt from The Irish Rover
We had sailed seven years
When the measles broke out
And the ship lost its way in the fog
And that whale of a crew
Was reduced down to two
Just myself and the Captain's old dog
Then the ship struck a rock
Oh Lord, what a shock
The bulkhead was turned right over
Turned nine times around
And the poor old dog was drowned
And the last of The Irish Rover

[@minuspbt]

Yeaaaaaah you're back. So Happy to see you back here😊

[@brianflynn5386]

Delighted to be back and that is the second song I have done since returning. Lots more to follow.

[@leighpilkington11]

So glad your back!!! Hope your well and hope to see more of you

[@brianflynn5386]

Thank you very much Leigh, I am fine and hopefully will be doing a new tutorial once every 2 weeks from now on. Thanks for subscribing and enjoy

[@wayne00k]

Very happy to find you've started again. I've been using your lessons this past year to not only learn a few wonderful Irish songs but to keep my sanity during these long lockdowns. Thanks for coming back! Cheers

[@brianflynn5386]

Glad you are finding them useful ! Thanks for subscribing.

[@garrettdevine1175]

Great to see you doing these lessons again. You are a natural teacher.

[@konstantineguruli]

Flynner os back! ♥ Welcome back! It's bit late but from bow from my heart. Lovely performance as usual ♥

[@kentwood9821]

Thank you Mister Flynn!

[@carlrose1333]

Good on ya...I'm a newfie and have played bass for many years. I love how I can follow along with your guitar chords so easily Cheers!

[@MEnsignScience]

I’m so happy you’re making videos again! I’m a Yank and fell in love with Irish folk music about 10 years ago, about the same time I started teaching myself guitar. Your videos have made it so much easier for me. Thank you!

[@brianflynn5386]

Delighted that the videos help and thanks for subscribing !

[@johnwalterbrabant7567]

Good to see you back making music, I've enjoyed all your older videos

[@brianflynn5386]

Thanks John - now for the younger ones 😝😝😝

[@followingghost4355]

Welcome back good Sir!

[@brianflynn5386]

You are welcome. Following Ghost, what a cool name !!

[@Infinitoast]

Great to see another Video! You're my go to guy!

[@brianflynn5386]

I really like the idea of being somebody’s “ go to guy” - thank you so much !!

[@chrisdevineacoustic2024]

Love this! Learning songs for my Irish set and this is so helpful!!!

[@channelz2929]

This one is going to keep me busy for a while. I thought I learned this a couple of months ago but I was playing it all wrong.

[@brianflynn5386]

Well there are lots of ways to play any song and if it was working for you then it wasn’t really wrong but glad if this helped !

[@channelz2929]

@@brianflynn5386 I think I finally got it...!!

[@TrishsFolk]

Love it. Will definitely give that one a go! Thanks for restarting the channel.

[@brianflynn5386]

Thanks Trish - hope you are well.

[@regplunkett1953]

Great simple video demo. Thanks. A small suggestion, put the song name ahead of "Guitar lesson" in the video title.

[@Danny-qq5nr]

Love it

[@sc-bz4vv]

Great rendition What strumming pattern do you use?

[@robertcuddy0]

I've been trying to learn the finger picking pattern to your tutorial for Maggie but I'm lost. I know you are alternating twoish patterns but I can't figure it out. Any help is appreciated! Glad to see you are back!

[@brianflynn5386]

E- mail me and I may be able to help you.

[@KarlWMTG]

😀

[@Mr.Nice1977]

Anschlag mit der rechten Hand bitte erklären

[@sc-bz4vv]

Strumming pattern please