The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18196   Message #180576
Posted By: AKS
18-Feb-00 - 04:21 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Easy and Slow (Sean O'Casey? D Behan?)
Subject: RE: Who wrote 'Easy And Slow'?
Here are the (two) 'additional' verses sung by RD I was referring to earlier:

I strolled with this fine maid far out in the country
the blossoms around us all crying for dew
on a violet-clad bench sure I sat down beside her
and I tied up me sleeve for to buckle her shoe
and what's it to any man whether or no
if I came to the fore when she gave the que
she closed her eyes tightly as she murmured full low
be good enough dear for to buckle my shoe

The heathery hills were all dancing around us
false things in the world turned out to be true
when she put her arms 'round me and kissed me and murmured
you've neatly and tenderly tied up my shoe
and what's it to any man whether or no
if I ventured quite gamely to see the things through
when she lifted her pettycoat silent and slow
and I tied up me sleeve for to buckle her shoe

AKS