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Fiddler's Green

Mrs.McGrath

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Mrs.McGrath was released on January 16, 2009 by Deaf Shepherd Recordings as a part of the album Sports Day At Killaloe

Song Details

AlbumSports Day At Killaloe

Release DateJanuary 16, 2009

LabelDeaf Shepherd Recordings

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM101

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Oh Mrs. McGrath, the sergeant said

Would you like to make a soldier out of your son Ted

With a scarlet coat and a big cocked hat?

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

Now Mrs. McGrath lived on the seashore

For the space of seven long years or more

Till she saw the big ship sailing in the bay

Here's my son Ted, will you clear the way?

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

Oh captain dear, where have you been?

Have you been to the Mediterranean?

Will you tell me the news of my son Ted?

Is the poor boy living or is he dead?

Up came Ted without any legs

And in their place two wooden pegs

She kissed him a dozen times or two

And said, "My God, Ted is it you?"

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

Now were you drunk or were you blind

When you left your two fine legs behind?

Or was it while walking upon the sea

You wore your two fine legs from the knees away?

I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind

When I left my two fine legs behind

A cannonball on the fifth of May

Tore my two fine legs from the knees away

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

My Teddy boy, the widow cried

Your two fine legs were your mother's pride

The stumps of a tree wouldn't do at all

Why didn't you run from the cannonball?

All foreign boys, I do proclaim

Between Don John and the King of Spain

I'd rather have my son as he used to be

Than the King of France and his whole navy

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

With me toray ya, fol diddle da

Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?

Written by: Oliver Wolfgang Wand

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