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Thread #47505   Message #2889047
Posted By: Paul Reade
18-Apr-10 - 05:24 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter
The version I remember is:-

A sailor courted a farmer's daughter
Who lived contagious to the town of Strabane
With fine words and promises sure he did besought her
Before she'd marry any other type or classification of a man

Now this farmer's daughter she had proud possessions
A silver taypot and two hundred pounds in gold
She said to him "Would you still marry me
"If I was to wrap 'em up in a bundle and throw 'em down to the bottom of the deep dark ocean cold?"

"Sure I'd marry you my heart's conchantlement
"If you'd nothing better than your old one's curse"
So she made a bundle of her proud possessions
And threw it down to the bottom of the deep dark ocean cold … that ends that verse.

Now this saucy sailior he could swim like a duckeen
Which roughly translated means like a small duck
So diving down to the bottom of the deep dark ocean
He swam off with the bundle and could hardly believe his luck!

Now the farmer's daughter near weed herself laughing
'Cos all that was in the bundle was a small lumpeen of a stone.
A sailor courted a farmer's daughter
And now he wishes he'd left the silly young bugger alone.