This traditional Irish song I know from a track on a more than twenty-year-old tape. I don't know the group's name (can't be a well-known group therefore). The lyrics have been checked and amended by a native English speaker.

Wolfgang

RED-HAIRED MARY
(Sean McCarthy)
(Traditional Irish)

1. I was going to the fair in Dingle
One fine morning last July
When going down the road before me,
A red-haired girl I chanced to spy.

2. Well I stepped up to her, says I, "Young lady,
Now me donkey, he will carry two;"
She looked at me, her eyes a-twinkle,
And her cheeks they were a rosy hue.

3. "Well, thank you kindly, sir," she answered,
Then she tossed her bright hair,
"Well seein' as how you've got your donkey,
I'll ride with you to the Dingle Fair."

4. Ah, but when we reached the fair in Dingle,
I took her hand for to say good-bye,
When a tinkerman moved up close beside me
And he hit me right in my left eye!

[for the first time:] Chorus: "Keep your hands off red-haired Mary!
Her and will soon be wed.
We're seeing the priest this very morning
And tonight we lie in the marriage bed."

5. Oh, the way was feeling kind a peevish,
And me poor old eye felt sad and sore,
So I tapped him gently with me hobnails
And he flew back through Tim Murphy's door.
Chorus

6. Then a policeman came around the corner,
Told me I had broke the law.
Then me donkey kicked him in the ankle,
And he fell down and smashed his jaw.
Chorus

7. But the red-haired girl, she kept on smiling,
"Ah, young man, I'll come with you," she said,
"We'll forget the priest this very morning,
And tonight we'll sleep in Murphy's shed."
Chorus