Liam O'Flynn The Dean's Pamphlet Lyrics

Brocades and damasks and tabbies and gauzes
Are by Robert Ballantine lately brought over.
With forty things more now hear what the law says
Who wear or not wear them is not the King's law.
Though a printer and dean seditiously mean
Our true Irish hearts from old England to wean.
We'll buy English silks for our wives and our daughters
In spite of his deanship and journeyman Waters.

Whoever our trading with England would hinder
To enflame both the nations does plainly conspire.
Because Irish linen will soon turn to tinder
And wool it is greasy and quickly takes fire.
Therefore I a__ure ye, our noble grand jury
On seeing the dean('s) book, we're in a great fury.
They would buy English silks for their wives and their daughters
In spite of his deanship and journeyman Waters.

The qu.... ____ Waters who always is sinning
Before callin' oh so oft has been called
Henceforth we shall print neither pamphlet or linen
If swearing can't do it, they'll be swingeingly mauled
And as for the dean, you know who I mean
If the printer would bleach him he'd scarced come off clean
Then we'll buy English silks for our wives and our daughters
In spite of his deanship and journeyman Waters.