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layout: post
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title: "st. brendan's fair isle"
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date: 2023-01-22
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categories: misc
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youtubeId: 5Y5Gk8EQlIA
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My father named me after St. Brendan the Navigator. I listen to this song every
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now and then and it makes me think of him. Here's to you dad:
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{% include youtubePlayer.html id=page.youtubeId %}
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```
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When I was a lad on the Emerald Isle
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I heard many stories both wondrous and wild
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About the great monsters and dragons that be
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That follow the ships as they sail on the sea
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Now I being an artist with canvas and paint
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I sailed with St. Brendan and his jolly saints
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We told all the people good-bye for a while
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle, fair Isle
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle
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We being on the ocean for ninety-four days
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We came to a spot where the sea was ablaze
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Those demons from Hades were dancing with glee
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And burning the sailors alive on the sea
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Then St. Brendan walked on the blistering waves
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He threw all the demons back into their caves
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And all of the saints wore a heavenly smile
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle, fair Isle
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle
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That night when the brethren were lying asleep
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A great dragon came up from under the deep
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He thundered and lightninged and made a great din
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He awakened St. Brendan and all of his men
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The dragon came on with his mouth open wide
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We threw in a cross and the great dragon died
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We skinned him and cooked him and feasted a while
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle, fair Isle
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle
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At last we came to a beautiful land
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We all went ashore and we walked on the strand
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We took our long bows and we killed us some food
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Then we roasted it up and had pot-barbeque
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Then after a while we were singing a song
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We noticed the island was moving along
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We ate and we drank and we rode in great style
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle, fair Isle
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle
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Oh, Brendan said, "boys, this is much to my wish
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We sail on the back of the world's biggest fish"
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"Hold tight to the rope now that pulls our oul ship
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For we'll need it me boys if this fish takes a dip"
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We sailed every ocean, we sailed every sea
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We sailed every spot that a sailor could be
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In forty-four days we sailed ten million miles
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle, fair Isle
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We sailed to St. Brendan's fair Isle
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-- Jimmy Driftwood
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