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Thread #115209   Message #2467856
Posted By: Fergie
16-Oct-08 - 08:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sweet Daffodil Mulligan (Harry O'Donovan)
Subject: Lyr Add: SWEET DAFFODIL MULLIGAN (Harry O'Donovan)
hi all

compliments of our own domo and Twangman who each, alone, individually and independently did tonight supplied me with the unabridged lyrics, we can now add 'Sweet Daffodil Mulligan' to the DT. Thank you Tony and Mick.

SWEET DAFFODIL MULLIGAN

I'm Daffodil Mulligan, biddy's young girl.
And the fellas all say I'm a peach and a pearl
I was born at the daffodil time of the year,
So they just called me Daffy, now maybe that's queer

Chorus;
But I'm sweet Daffodil Mulligan, I am
All me ancestors come from the Coombe
And I'm just another, the spit of me mother,
The lady who lives in one room, down in Francis Street
Sweet Daffodil Mulligan, Fresh Fish!
Like the sweet Blarney roses that bloom,
I'm bright, hale and hearty, the life of the party
I'm Daffy, the belle of the Coombe, Fresh Fish!

It was out in Pine Forest, shady and dim
That I first met my Jemmy, so tall and so slim
It was at an excursion, the girls looked so swell
But I took the biscuit and Jem's heart as well

We were married in August when Jem was on strike
So he took me to Bray on the back of his bike
Now the strike is all over and Jem, bless his soul,
Has settled down steadily drawing the dole.

PS I love the song and I'm very fond of both of the benefactors,

Thanks to both the lads

Fergie