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-Joe Offer-

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JH: Well, er, the Englishman (?) is called Patsy McCann.  It's about a desperate man who had a big fat daughter and he wanted her at any cost to get married off to somebody and the man who owned the daughter, as we'll say, he was going to give ten golden sovereigns and a fine legged stool and a big feather bed to Patsy McCann.  Poor Patsy made the mistake of marrying the daughter so it's not a long song, it's a very pithy song.  We say, it can tell a long story in a short way.

Patsy McCann   (Roud 13970)

There's a man by the name of Mike Hogan, he's plaguing me out of my life.
He has a fine daughter named Bridget and he wants me to make her my wife.
She stands six foot four in her stockings, her waist would mine equal three,
And whenever I try for to kiss her, sure my elbows reach just to her knees.

Chorus:
Patsy McCann will you marry my daughter, oh Patsy McCann if the girl you'll wed,
Ten golden sovereigns down I will give you, a three legged stool and a fine feather bed.
St Peter, St Paul and St Patrick are the picture that hangs on the wall.
I will throw them all in to the bargain if you'll marry my daughter at all.

So I married this old Bridget Hogan and she's mine now for better or worse,
But the blessings that she should have brought me, they soon turned into a curse.
She bites me, she kicks me, she flays me, and she ties me lest I'd run away.
But this six foot four beauty's a caution, but her father was worse for to say.

Chorus