I have a Friends of Fiddler's Green tape on which they do a few Music Hall Numbers. Its called "The Road to Mandalay".

In it there's a song called Mary Ann

I've almost got all the Lyrics, but there's one line I just can't get.

It starts off

Well I never thought much about females
Till a couple of months ago
When I thought I saw one of them looking at me
MY MOTHER TOLD ME SO! (as chorus)
That damsel's name was Mary Ann
And she looked at me one day.
I told mother and mother told me
In a motherly kind of way that...

(chorus)
Mary Ann she's after me
Full of love she seems to be
My mother says that it's plain to see
That she wants me for her young man.
Father says, "If that be true"
John my lad be thankful do
That there's one bigger fool in the world than you
And that's Mary Ann

Anyone know a source for the rest

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See this thread for full lyrics (click)