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Thread #132699 Message #3005035
Posted By: AnneMC
12-Oct-10 - 05:45 AM
Thread Name: Rollicking songs for girls..
Subject: Lyr Add: ON WE GO (Nancy McCallion)
This is a great rollicking song - sounds good with a bodhran player in your group.
ON WE GO
(Nancy McCallion)
This song was also on Putamayo's "Women of the World: Celtic" CD, Volume 1.
There was an old woman and there was an old man
They live upon the high road
He once sat as a jockey for his pay
And she was her mother's darling-o
CHORUS: And on we go, and on we go
Can you recall the day we married-o
On we go, and on we go
Wouldn't you be frightened to die alone
Come a little closer to me darling-o
Come with me you silly old man
Cozy as a codfish-o
I've never seen anyone sour as you
at least not after breakfast-o
She grabbed the old man by the hand
She lead him 'cross a moonlit night
She took him to the public house
And filled him full of whiskey-o. CHORUS
And on the way back home from town
Oh, oh my darlin'-o
She pushed him in the water and she held him down
Can you recall the day we married-o. CHORUS
There was an old woman and there was an old man
They lived upon the highroad
He once sat as a jockey for his pay...
And she was her mother's darlin'-o