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Thread #109136 Message #2279809
Posted By: Jim Dixon
04-Mar-08 - 10:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Burnt Old Man -Translation, Please
Subject: Lyr Add: AN SEANDUINE DOIGHTE (in English)
1) I put my buttermilk into the coffer To drink buttermilk and barley-bread scoffer If he'd stick out his head I'd snap off his nose Leave the rest of his body for all the young girls
Chorus: O my old man O pity I fed you O my old man O pity I wed you O my old man O pity I bed you Sleepin' your sleep for ever and ever
2) If my old man he got what he wanted A few bites of meat and a dollop of butter The fat of the churn and some roasted potatoes Wouldn't he sport among all the young ladies?
3) To Ballinrobe street I sent my old fellow Buckled-up shoes and a hat with a feather Three were enticing him, kissing him four of them They told me in Galway he went off with all of them
4) I went to the store to get all of my turf in Looking for baccy and planks for a coffin When I got home I felt like a mourner I got my old man, stuck him down in a corner
5) If you were to see my old man about midnight His foot on the hob and getting his pipe 'light Nine of the hen's eggs boiled in the firelight If he didn't do it then right, he'll never do it now right
6) I sent my old man to the west of the country Where there were whores one thousand and twenty His genitals lessened and his jaws became bony And he came back to me like a newly born pony
7) If I found my old fellow drowned in a bog-hole Then I'd fetch him home and I'd yell in his lug-hole I'd lock up the door and I'd pocket the key-o And all the young fellows would walk out with me-o