| lyric | 1. There was an old woman from Wexford, in Wexford she did dwell.
She loved her husband dearly, but another man twice as well,
with me rum a dum dum a dero,
and me dum aderodee.
2. One day she went to the doctor, some medicine for to find,
She said: “Will you give me sometihnig, that will make my old man blind.”
3. Feed him eggs and marrow bones and make him suck them all,
And it won’t be very long after, till he won’t see you at all.
4. The doctor wrote a letter and he signed it with his hand,
And he sent it to the old man, just to let him understand.
5. So she fed him eggs and marrow bones and make him suck them all,
And it wasn’t very long after till he couldn’t see the wall.
6. He said: “I’ll go and drown myself, but I fear it is asin.”
Says she: “I’ll go along with you and help to push you in.”
7. The woman she stepped back a bit to rush und push him in,
But the old man quietly stepped aside and she went tumbling in.
8. Oh, how loudly she did yell and how loudly she did call.
""Yerra, hold your whisht, old woman” says he.
9. So eggs are eggs and marrow bones may make your old man blind,
But if you want to drown him, you must creep up close behind. |