Here's how I heard it on Spotify. Of the verses posted above, verses 2 and 3 are switched, verses 4 and 5 are omitted, and there is a totally different 4th verse.


EASY AND SLOW
As sung by Dominic Behan on "Down by the Liffeyside: Irish Street Ballads" (1960)

1. 'Twas down by Christ-church that I first met with Annie,
A neat little girl, and not a bit shy
She told me her father, who came from Dungannon,
Would take her back home in the sweet by and by.

CHORUS: And what's it to any man whether or no,
Whether I'm easy or whether I'm true.
When I lifted her petticoat easy and slow.
And I tied up my sleeve for to buckle her shoe.

2. From city or country a girl is a jewel.
And well built for gripping the most of them are.
But any young fella he is really a fool.
If he tries at the first time for to go a bit far

3. We wandered by Thomas Street, down to the Liffey.
The evening [sic] was gone and the evening grew dark.
Along by Kingsbridge and begod in a jiffy
Me arm was around her beyond in the park.

4. Now if ye should go to the town of Dungannon,
Search till your eyeballs are empty or blind.
Be ye trottin' or walkin' or sittin' or standin',
A girl like Annie ye never will find.