| lyric | 1. ""Oh missus Mc Grath."" the seargeant said
„S^Would you like to make a soldier out of your son Ted.
With a scarlet coat and a big cocked hat,
now missus Mc Grath wouldn’t you like that?
Ref.: Wid yer ooriah, folthe diddle ah,
tooriooroooriah.
Wid yer tooriah, folthe diddle ah,
tooriooriooriah.
2. So Mrs McGrath lived on the sea shore,
For the space of seven long years or more,
Till she saw a big ship sailing into the bay,
“Here’s my son Ted, wisha, clear the way!”
3. “Oh captain dear, where have you been,
Have you been sailing on the Mediterreen,
Or have you any tidings of my son Ted,
Is the poor boy living, or is he dead?”
4. Then up comes Ted without any legs,
And in their place he has two wooden pegs.
She kissed him a dozen times or two,
Saying: “Holy Moses, ’tisn’t you?”
5. “Oh then were you drunk or were you blind,
That you left your two fine legs behind,
Or was it walking upon the sea,
Wore yer two fine legs from the knees away?""
6. “Oh, no, I wasn’t drunk or blind,
When I left my two fine legs behind,
For acannonball an the fifth of May,
Took my two fine legs from the knees away.”
7. “Oh then Teddy me boy”, the widow cried,
“Yer two fine legs were yer mammy’s pride,
Them stumps of atree wouldn‘t do at all,
Why didn’t you run from the big cannonball?""
8. “All foreign wars I do proclaim,
Between Don John and the King of Spain,
And by herrins I’ll make them rue the time,
That they swept the legs of achild of mine!”
9. “Oh then If I had you back again,
I’d never let you go to fight the King of Spain,
For I’d rather have my Ted as he used to be,
Than the King of France and his whole Navy.” |