Ode to Biddy McGee - The Wolfe Tones [with Lyrics]

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🗒 Ode to Biddy McGee 🗒
When I was young and in me prime
I courted Biddy McGee
A fine, big, strapping lump of a woman
And she stood about two foot three
Her father was a mean old creature
He had plenty of gold and land
But he rared up dog rough
The dirty, mean, old, miserable, old devil
When I asked him for his daughter's hand

I resolved there and then for Molly's sake
That the two of us would elope
I borrowed the ladder from Mickey O'Brien
And twenty yards of good, strong
Strapping rope
I put the ladder up to Molly's boudoir
That's French for a woman's bed
But the ladder broke and
The whole twenty stone
Fell down on me bloody head

Well I threwed her into the ass and cart
And for the clergy we set out
I found Father Nagle in McCarthy's pub
With his head in a barrel of stout
He looked at me with his bleary old eyes
And sized Molly up and down
Oh I pity you my son
I'm dying with the thirst
Will you buy me two bottles of stout?
I'll only charge you half a crown

Well, do you take this fine, big
Strapping lump of a woman
To be your lawful wedded wife?
Will you feed her bacon and cabbage and spuds
For the rest of your natural life?
And when the icy wind a-blows
Around her old legs
Will you guard her from the chill?
Oh will you buy me another bottle of stout
I'm dying with the drought
Ah be Jaysus father I will

Now, I've been married for twenty years
And I don't regret one day
And that was last Wednesday fortnight
She told me she was in the family way
I threw her into the ass and cart
And she landed like a sack
I brought her back to her old father
I said listen here you dirty
Mean, old, rotten, old, miserable, old devil
You can have your daughter back