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The Woman From Wexford
Folkways
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There was an old woman from Wexford, from Wexford town did dwell
She loved her husband dearly and another man twice as well
Oh, haddley day, haddley, haddley, shiggledy, haddley day!
One day she went to the doctor some medicine for to buy
"Please give me something special that will make me old man blind"
Oh, haddley day, haddley, haddley, shiggledy, haddley day!
"Oh, faith, there makes some marrow
Bones that'll make your old man blind
And it won't be so very long after that he won't see your behind"
Oh, haddley day, haddley, haddley, shiggledy, haddley day!
She fed him eggs and marrow bones and made him suck them all
And it wasn't so very long after that he couldn't see the wall
Oh, haddley day, haddley, haddley, shiggledy, haddley day!
"Oh, I am tired of this world, I'm weary of me life
I think I'll go and drown meself and that'll end the strife"
Oh, haddley day, haddley, haddley, shiggledy, haddley day!
The old woman she went back a bit to take a run and go
But the cunning old bugger he stepped aside and she went in below
Oh, haddley day, haddley, haddley, shiggledy, haddley day!
Oh, she swam up and she swam down till she came to the feather brim
But the old boy got a feather in top and he pushed a feather in
Oh, haddley day, haddley, haddley, shiggledy, haddley day!
"Oh, take you that, you cunning old jade, you thought that I was blind
But I'll go whistling home again and another wife I'll find"
Oh, haddley day, haddley, haddley, shiggledy
Haddley, haddley, haddley, haddley day!
Haddley, haddley, shiggledy, haddley, haddley, haddley, ah... hey!
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