More Than You Can Chew

Perhaps the best known Irish March, The March of the King of Laois, forms

The basic melodic structure of this song - a warning to Maeve from

Cu Chulainn

People say you're dressed to kill

You're not a girl to come on slow

Once you get the bit between your teeth

You don't feel like letting go

But before you hit off

Let me say you've bit off

More than you can chew

I recall just how you laughed

And you tried to make a fool of me

How you thought you could get away

Without me knowing is hard to see

Though things may look doubtful

You've got yourself a mouthful

More than you can chew

You can give me back my pride

And I will trade you all that's due

Cos like a spider I'm creeping back

Gonna spin my web all over you

And if you take it in haste

You're gonna waste

Aah you can't taste

More than you can chew