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GUEST,James Phillips Lyr Add: Little Drummer Boy (sung by MacMurrough) (1) Lyr Add: Little Drummer Boy (sung by MacMurrough) 16 Jan 22


Not THAT Little Drummer Boy, the other one! Couldn't seem to find the lyrics as sung by MacMurrough on this album so I thought I'd post them here for reference.

LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (as sung by MacMurrough on Merry & Fine (1977)

I was brought up right well me lads and when I was sixteen
I ran away from home me lads and a soldier I became
With a fine cap of feathers, likewise a rattling drum
They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum

(CHORUS)
With a fine cap of feathers, likewise a rattling drum
They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum
With a gentle waist so slender and fingers long and small
I could play upon the rub-a-dub the best of them all

And it's many years the pranks that I saw amongst the French
And boldly I did fight me boys although I'm but a wench
And in buttoning up me trousers, how often have I smiled
To think I lay with a thousand men and a maiden all the while

And they never found me secret out until this very hour
And they sent me up to London to be sentry at the tower
And a lady fell in love with me and I told her I was a maid
She went unto me officer and me secret she betrayed

He unbuttoned up my red tunic and he found that it was true
It's a shame, he said, to lose a pretty drummer boy like you
So now I must return to me family at home
And along with my bold comrades no longer can I roam


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