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Thread #55235 Message #857552
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
02-Jan-03 - 07:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Love Will Ye Marry Me (De Danann)
Subject: Lyr Add: LOVE WILL YE MARRY ME
Writing from memory (can't play my old LPs anymore) but I think the middle bit of DeD's version goes:
Why didn't you tell me so Why didn't you tell me so Why didn't you tell me so What the devil ailed ye?
How could I tell you so? How could I tell you so? For if I did there isn't a doubt I never would have gained ye
AND:
Why didn't you tell me so Why didn't you tell me so Why didn't you tell me so Before you did the harm?
What harm did I do? What harm did I do? What harm did I do? ??? But only in me arm (or something...)
I also seem to remember the final lines of each verse (one refusing to marry, then one agreeing) as being "For why? You are a stranger" and "For sure you are no stranger" though I may be remembering it a bit wrongly. Makes you wonder what they got up to between the first and second verses...