As sung by Triona Ni Dhomhnaill with The Bothy Band, The First Album, 1975. But please help me complete it, I miss something in stanza 1 and 2. Thanks. R
When Pretty Peg went down the street Some fresh fish for to buy But the ... followed after her And he kissed her by and by
With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-da
"Oh how can I get to your chamber, love? Or how can I get to your bed? When your daddy goes to bed at night With a keen eye ... his head?"
"Oh go and get the ladder, love With thirty steps and three And put it to the chimney top And come down in a creel to me"
With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-da
"I went and got a ladder, love With thirty steps and three And a creel on the top of that And come down in the lum to thee"
With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-da
No peace nor ease could the old wife get With dreams running through her head "I'll lay on me life," said the gay old wife "There's a boy in me daughter's bed"
With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-da
Then up the stairs the old man crept And into the room did steal Silence reigned where the daughter slept And he never twigged the creel
With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-da
"My curse attend you, father What brought you up so soon? To put me through my evening prayers And I just lying down?"
With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-da
He went back to his gay old wife He went back to she "She has the prayer book in her hand And she's praying for you and me"
With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-da
No peace nor ease could that old wife get 'Til she would rise and see She came on a stumbling-block And into the creel went she
With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-da
"Oh high I rocked her, oh I rocked her Didn't I rock her well? For if any old wife begrudge me her daughter I'll rock her into hell"
With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-da