Johnny Cope / Fermoy Lasses / Jerusalem Rap

JOHNNY COPE

Cope sent a sessage from Dunbar

Sayin' Charlie meet me if you dare

And I'll learn you the art of war

If you'll meet me in the morning.

Hey, now Johnny are you wailin' yet

And are your drums a beatin' yet

If you're walkin' I would wait

You're going to the coals in the morning

When Charlie looked the letter upon

He drew his sword his scabbard from

Follow me my merry men

And we'll meet Johnny Cope in the morning

Go now Johnny get up and run

The highland 'pipes are making a din

It's better to sleep in a hail skin

It will be a bloody mornin'

When Johnny Cope to Dunbar came

He asked of him, "Where's all your men?"

They'll confound me again and again

For I left them all in the mornin'

Hey, now Johnny you weren't too late

To come with news of your defeat

And leave your men in such a state

So early in the morning.

REEL: "FERMOY LASSES"

(traditional, arranged by Seven Nations)

JERUSALEM RAP

I'm a stranger here from Ireland's shore

I've been on the raod six months or more

Hikin', workin', travelin' in style

I'm a vagabond from Ireland's isle

Me sunburned thumb stuck up in the air

Many's the lift from here to there

Cars, buses, vans and trains

In the punishing heat, the snow, and the rain

Chorus:

Oh whack fol the diddle fol the

Di ro day

Whack fol the diddle fol the der-

Oh Mrs. Dolan, yer son he isn't workin'

I came from Dublin to Jerusalem town

Had a drink or twon on the journey down

At a railway station called Gar du Nord

Missed my train thru garglin' hard

Three days later in Napoli on a Turkish boat

I sailed to sea slept in a hot hole down below

Travelin' tourist class ya know

Chorus