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Thread #12188 Message #95386
Posted By: Wolfgang
15-Jul-99 - 04:10 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Eighteen Years Old (from De Danann)
Subject: RE: '18 YEARS OLD' LYRICS(De Dannan+Dolores K)
Hi Anders, here it is from my own handwritten songbook, which means that I don't know how reliable the lyrics are. They can be anything from my own transcription to a copy from a printed source (on rereading: the lyrics sound to good to be my transcription). I can't help you with all the other questions
Wolfgang
EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD
I'm eighteen years old today, mama, and I'm longing to be wed. So buy for me a young man to comfort me, she said, you must buy for me a young man who will stay with me all night, and I'll roll him in my arms, he'll be my heart's delight.
Ah, hold your tongue, dear daughter then, or folds I will pull down. Your silks and satins I will pull down, you must wear your morning gown. I'll send you to the meadows for to rake and mow the hay with your pike and shaft all in your hands you must earn your drink and take.
Ah, hold your tongue, dear daughter then, I was forty before I wed, and thought it was late, I thought it no weight to carry my maidenhead. That may be the way with you, mama, but it isn't the way with me, for I'm young and airy, light and crazy and married I long to be.
Ah, hold your tongue, dear daughter then, and I'll buy for you a man. A man for me? Oh, mother, she said, you must hasten, you must and can. The sooner the better, oh mother, she said, you must hasten a man to me for I'm young and airy, light and crazy and married I long to be.