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Thread #107052   Message #2216854
Posted By: Fergie
16-Dec-07 - 08:53 PM
Thread Name: Route through Dublin: Easy and Slow?
Subject: RE: Route through Dublin: Easy and Slow?
As far as I'm aware it was Sean O'Casey (author of Juno and the Paycock, Shadow of a Gunman and The Plough and the Stars etc.) that penned this song. These are the words as I learned them way back in the midsixties.

EASY AND SLOW

It was down by Christchurch that I first met with Annie
A neat little girl and not a bit shy
She told me her father who come from Dungannon
Would take her back home in the sweet bye and bye

And what's it to any man, whether or no
Whether I'm easy, or whether I'm true
As I lifted her petticoat, easy and slow
And I tied up my sleeve for to buckle her shoe

In city or country, a girl is a jewel
And well made for gripping, the most of them are
But any young fellow is really a fool
If he tries at the first time to go a bit far

We wandered by Thomas Street, and down by the Liffey
The sunlight was gone, and the evening grew dark
Along by Kingsbridge, and begob in a jiffy
My arm was around her, beyond in the park .(the Phoenix Park)

CHORUS

And if ever you go to the town of Dungannon
You can search till your eyeballs are empty and blind
Be you lying or walking or sitting or running
A girl like Annie you never will find.

Fergus