Artist: | The Dubliners (English) |
User: | Klaus Peter |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
The Ould Woman from Wexford
Traditional 6/8
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1 There was an ould woman in Wexford,
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And in Wexford she did well
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She loved_her_ould_husband dearly
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But an-other man twice as well.
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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2 One day she went to a doctor
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Some medicine for to find.
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Saying "Doctor, give me something
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that'll make me ould man blind."
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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3 Says_he "Give him eggs and marrow bones
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And make him sup them all
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And it won't be so very long after
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That he won't see you at all."
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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4 Well the doctor wrote a letter
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And he signed it with his hand.
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He sent it to the ould man
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Just to let him under-stand.
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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5 And she fed him the_eggs and marrow bones
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And she made him sup them all.
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And it wasn't so very long after
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That he couldn't see the wall.
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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6 Says th'ould_man_"I_think I'll_drown_meself,
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But that might be a sin."
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Says she "I'll come a-long with you
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And I help to push you in."
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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7 The ould_woman_she stood back a bit
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For to rush an' push him in,
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But the ould man gently stepped aside
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And she went tumblin' in.
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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8 And how loud-ly she did yell
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And how loudly she did bawl.
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"Arra, hould_yer_whist, y'ould woman,
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Sure I can't see you at all. "
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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9 She swam and swam and swam and swam
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Till she came to the further brim,
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The ould man got a long large pole
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And he pushed her further in.
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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10 Oh eggs are eggs and marrow bones
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Will make yer ould man blind,
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But if you want to drown him
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You must creep up close be-hind.
Chorus:
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and me
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toram toram ta.
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With me tiggery tiggery toram and
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the blind man he could see.