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Thread #24947   Message #289044
Posted By: Gary T
01-Sep-00 - 01:40 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Twice Daily
Subject: Lyr Add: TWICE DAILY (from The Bards)
Well, gee, there aren't but 10 or 15 versions of this, are there?

The words I learned, from an album by the Irish folk group The Bards:

When I was a lad, I was so glad to go out in the daytime
With me fork and a bottle and cork, to help out in the haytime
Tossing hay one fine day I met sweet Lucy Bailey
And I said "My dear are you often here" she said "Yes sir twice daily"

CHORUS:
Did a rum doo dee did a rum doo dah did a rum dah doo dah randy
Did a rie doo dee did a rie doo dah did a rie doo dee twice daily

Well we had such fun in the summer sun, Lucy was so thrilling
So sweet and pure yet I wasn't sure if that girl was willing
And then one day among the hay we was working gaily
When she ups and slips and her garters ripped, and I went there twice daily

Well Lucy's dad, he was very mad, he chased me 'round the hay barn
He said "My son, you've had your fun, it's time that you should pay now"
"The girl you'll wed," the old man said as he waved his shotgun gaily
"If you don't" he said "where I'll put this lead, you won't sit there twice daily"

So the very next day in the month of May we held the ceremony
And we paid off the vicar with a gallon of liquor and we rode to church on a pony
To Lucy's joy we had a boy, what a little darling
He's round and fat as a cheshire cat and perky as a starling

Well now we're old, our story's told, forty years together
Though we often say how we used to stray in that old time summer weather
And kids we've got ten or more, we goes on quite gaily
Though I'm old and gray, still I've got me way, I still go there twice daily