Artist: | Irish Folk (English) |
User: | David Levy |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
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"Oh, Mrs. McGrath," the sergeant said
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"Would you like to make a soldier out of your son Ted
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With a scarlett coat, a big cocked hat
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Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?"
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With me too-ri-ay Fol the diddle-day
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Too-ri-you-ri Too-ri-ay
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Now, Mrs. McGrath lived on the sea shore
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For the space of seven years or more
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Till she saw a big ship sailing in the bay
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"Here's my son Ted, will you clear the way!"
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With me too-ri-ay Fol the diddle-day
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Too-ri-you-ri Too-ri-ay
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"Oh captain dear, where have you been
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Have you been to the Mediterranean
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Will you tell me the news of my son Ted
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Is the poor boy living or is he dead?"
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Up came Ted without any legs
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And in their place, two wooden pegs
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She kissed him a dozen times or two
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And said "My god, Ted is it you?"
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With me too-ri-ay Fol the diddle-day
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Too-ri-you-ri Too-ri-ay
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"Now were you drunk or were you blind
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When you left your two fine legs behind
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Or was it while walking upon the sea
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Wore your two fine legs from the knees away?"
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"No, I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind
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When I left my two fine legs behind
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But a cannon ball on the fifth of May,
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Tore my two fine legs and my knees away"
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With me too-ri-ay Fol the diddle-day
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Too-ri-you-ri Too-ri-ay
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"My Teddyboy," the widow cried
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"Your two fine legs were your mothers pride
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That stumps of a tree wouldnt do at all
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Why didn't you run from the cannon ball?"
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"All foreign wars I do proclaim
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Between Don John and the King of Spain,
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Id rather have my son as he used to be
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Than the King of France and his whole navy"
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With me too-ri-ay Fol the diddle-day
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Too-ri-you-ri Too-ri-ayEm G Am C