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Thread #61641   Message #2580056
Posted By: GUEST,Mike Walker
03-Mar-09 - 04:06 AM
Thread Name: A Sailor Courted A Farmer's Daughter
Subject: RE: A Sailor Courted A Farmer's Daughter
I heard it once in the 50's at an conference sung by the then Irish president of the NUS.I've been singing it from memory ever since.
I love these lyrics:
"A sailor coorted a farmer's daughter/that lived contagious to the isle of Man (pronounced mon)
Wid warblin' melodies he did besought her/to marry him before she'd run away off and marry some other sort of a, kind of a man(mon)".

write to mjk.walker@virgin.net and I'll give you the rest of the highly amusing folk song.