St Brendans Fair Isle

Intro | verse 1 When I was a lad on the Emerald Isle I heard many stories both lovely and wild About the great dragons and monsters that be That swallow the ships when they sail on the sea. Refrain Though I was an artist with canvas and paint I sailed with St. Brendan and his jolly saints We told the good people goodbye for a while We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle. verse 2 We'd been on the ocean for 94 days When we came to a spot where the sea was ablaze Those demons from Hades were dancing with glee And burning the sailors alive on the sea Refrain Then St. Brendan he walked on the blistering waves He threw those demons right back to their caves And all of the saints wore a heavenly smile We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle. verse 3 One night while the brethren were lying asleep A great dragon came up from under the deep He thundered and light'nend and made a great din He awakened St. Brendan and all of his men Refrain The dragon came on with his mouth open wide We threw in a cross and the great dragon died We skinned him and cooked him and feasted a while We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle. Instrumental | | | | | | | | verse 4 At last we came onto that beautiful land We all went ashore and we walked on the sand We took our longbows and we killed us a boo We roasted it up and had hot barbecue Refrain And after a while we were singing this song We noticed the island was moving along We ate and we drank and we rolled in high style We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle. Verse 5 St. Brendan said "Boys, this is much to my wish "We ride on the back of the world's biggest fish. "Hold fast to the rope that is pullin' the ship "We'll need it some day if this fish takes a dip." Refrain We sailed every ocean, we sailed every sea We sailed every spot that a sailor could be In 44 days we sailed 10 million miles We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle. Outro We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle. (Then 3 bars of drums) | | |