St. Brendan's Isle

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

Oh, I was an artist with canvas and paints
I sail with St. Brendan and his jolly saints
We told the good people goodbye for a while
We sail for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle
We sail for St. Brendan's fair isle

We'd been on the ocean just 94 days
When we came to this place where the sea was ablaze
The devils from Hades were yellin' with glee
And burnin' 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 sail for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle
We sail 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 lightninged and his mighty din
Awakened St. Brendan and all of his men

The dragon came on with his mouth opened wide
We threw in the cross and the great dragon died
We skinned him and cooked him and feasted a while
We sail for St. Brendan's fair isle, fair isle
We sail for St. Brendan's fair isle

And at last we came home to 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 hams and had 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 draggin' our ship
We'll need someday if the fish takes a dip"

We sailed every ocean, we sailed every sea
We 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