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[Verse 1]
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When I was a lad on the Emerald Isle
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I heard many stories both lovely and wild
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About the great dragons and monsters that be
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That swallow the ships when they sail on the sea.

[Refrain]
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Though I was 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 the good people goodbye for a while
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We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle
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We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle.

[Verse 2]
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We'd been on the ocean for 94 days
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When 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

[Refrain]
     G
Then St. Brendan he walked on the blistering waves
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He threw those demons right back to their caves
    G
And all of the saints wore a heavenly smile
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We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle
   D              A              D
We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle.

[Verse 3]
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One night while 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 light'nend and made a great din
    G           D                      Bm
He awakened St. Brendan and all of his men

[Refrain]
    G
The dragon came on with his mouth open wide
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We threw in a cross and the great dragon died
   G
We skinned him and cooked him and feasted a while
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We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle
   D              A              D
We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle.

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
   D
At last we came onto that beautiful land
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We all went ashore and we walked on the sand
   D
We took our longbows and we killed us a boo
   G          D                   Bm
We roasted it up and had hot barbecue

[Refrain]
    G
And after a while we were singing this song
                                  D
We noticed the island was moving along
   G
We ate and we drank and we rolled in high style
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We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle
   D              A              D
We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle.


[Verse 5]
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St. Brendan said "Boys, this is much to my wish
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"We ride on the back of the world's biggest fish.
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"Hold fast to the rope that is pullin' the ship
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"We'll need it some day if this fish takes a dip."

[Refrain]
   G
We sailed every ocean, we sailed every sea
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We sailed every spot that a sailor could be
   G
In 44 days we sailed 10 million miles
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We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle
   D              A              Bm    G
We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle.


[Outro]
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We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle
   D              A              D
We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle.

(Then 3 bars of drums)

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