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The Girls Won't Leave The Boys Alone An Poc Ar Buile
   
Credits: Traditional; arranged by Cherish The Ladies
  a) An Poc Ar Buile
b) I'll Mend Your Pots And Kettles O
   
Appears On: The Girls Won't Leave The Boys Alone
   
Language: Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic)
   
Other Versions: a) "Bean Pháidín" on Anúna's album Anúna
   

Lyrics: English Translation:
   
Ar mo dhul dom siar chun Droichead Uí Mhórdhal As I set out with pike in hand
Píce im dhóid is mé ag dul i meitheal To old Dromore to join a meitheal
Cé chasfail orm i gcumar ceoidh Who should I meet but a tan puck goat
Ach pocán crón is é ar buile And he roaring mad in a ferocious mettle
   
Curfá: Chorus (after each verse):
Aillilliú, puilliliú, ailliliú, tá an poc ar buile Aillilliú, puilliliú, ailliliú, tá an poc ar buile
Aillilliú, puilliliú, ailliliú, tá an poc ar buile Aillilliú, puilliliú, ailliliú, tá an poc ar buile
   
Do ritheamar trasna trí ruilleogach He chased me over bush and weed
Is do ghluais an comhrac ar fud na muinge And through the bog the run proceded
Is treascairt dá bhfuair se sna turtóga 'Til he caught his horns in a clump of gorse
Chuas ina aoinneaoin ar a dhroim le fuinneamh And on his back I jumped unheaded
   
Bhí garda mór i mBaile an Róistigh When the sergeant stood in Rochestown
Is bhailigh fórsaí chun sinn a chlipeadh With a force of guards to apprehend us
Do bhuail sé rop dá adhairc sa tóin air The goat, he tore his trousers down
Is dá bhristi nua do dhein se giobail And made rags of his breeches and new suspenders
   
I nDaingean uí Chúise le haghaidh an tráthnóna In Dingle the following afternoon
Bhí an sagart paróiste amach inár gcoinnibh The parish priest came to call us to order
Is é dúirt gurbh é an diabhal ba dhóigh leis And he swore from the pulpit each Sunday in June
A ghaibh an treo ar phócan buile 'Twas the devil on the back of his old grandfather