The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #97649   Message #1926542
Posted By: greg stephens
04-Jan-07 - 12:48 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Sail Away Ladies
Subject: RE: Origin: Sail Away Ladies
Richie, in an earlier post, gives a transcription of Van Morrison's version, and includes a couplet:
WEll she lived so long her head got bald
She didn't get out the notes or the dimes at all

This is very ingenious, but I think you'll find what he is singing is Lonnie Donegan's version:
"She's giving up the notion of dyin' at all"