Tekst
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 swallowed the ships when they sailed on the sea
Though I was an artist with canvas and paints
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
We'd been on the ocean just 94 days
And came to a place where the sea was ablaze
The devils from Hades were yelling with glee
And burning the sailors alive on the sea
Then St. Brendan walked on the blistering waves
And drove all the demons right back to their caves
And all of the saints had a heavenly smile
We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle fair isle
We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle
One night as the brethren were lying asleep
A great dragon came up from out of the deep
He thundered and lightened and his mighty din
Awakened St. Brendan and all of his men
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 awhile
We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle fair isle
We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle
At last we came unto that heavenly land
We all went ashore and we walked on the sand
We took our long bows and we killed a zebu
We roasted his hounds and had a hot barbecue
When after the meal we were singing a song
We noticed our island was moving along
We ate and we drank and we rode in high style
We sailed on St. Brendan's fair isle fair isle
We sailed on St. Brendan's fair isle
St. Brendan said "Boys this is much to my wish
We ride on the back of the world's biggest fish
Hold tight to the rope that is dragging our ship
We'll need it someday if the fish takes a dip"
We sailed every ocean we've sailed every sea
We've seen every sight that a sailor could see
In 44 days we rode 10 million miles
We sailed on St. Brendan's fair isle fair isle
We sailed on St. Brendan's fair isle