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Thread #77460   Message #1382502
Posted By: belter
19-Jan-05 - 03:21 PM
Thread Name: Songs about bad wives (or bad SO's)
Subject: Lyr Add: ON WE GO (trad. from The Mollys)
The first song that came to mind when I saw the thread was

On We Go
Traditional
Kathleen Mullaly Masino - Lead vocal
Bill Masino - Harmony vocal
Colin O'Brian - Acoustic Guitar
Randy Wothke - Snare
Bryan Blaylock - Bodhran
http://www.mollys.com/mollys/   


ON WE GO
As recorded by The Mollys on "Live at El Casino Ballroom" (2011)

1. There was an old woman and there was an old man
They lived upon the high road.
He once sat as a jockey for his pay
And she was her mother's darlin'-o.

CHORUS: And on we go, and on we go.
Can you recall the day we married-o?
On we go, and on we go,
And wouldn't you be frightened to die alone?
Come a little closer to me, darlin'-o.

2. Come with me, you silly old man,
Cozy as a codfish-o.
I've never seen anyone sour as you,
At least not after breakfast-o.

3. She grabbed the old man by the hand.
She led him cross a moonlit night.
She took him to the public house
And filled him full of whisky-o. CHORUS

4. And on their way back home from town,
Oh, oh, my darlin'-o!
She pushed him in the water and she held him down.
Can you recall the day we married-o? CHORUS