Subject: Lyr Add: THE IRISH GIRL (Ralph McTell) From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Jan 12 - 05:12 PM THE IRISH GIRL As sung by Ralph McTell on "Affairs of the Heart" (2010) 1. What will he do now that he's a man and should be settling down? If only he'd marry a local girl and stay right here in town. Now he's living the artist's life and has taken the poet's role, And has fallen deep in love with an Irish girl, and she's captured his heart and soul. 2. What will they do when they are wed, for a poet's pay is poor, Sleeping at night on a borrowed bed and traipsing from door to door? I don't know and it troubles me so, but they've gone and taken their vows, And he has married his Irish girl, so they'll have to manage somehow. 3. What will they do when the children come, as the children surely will? How will she cope when he drinks till he's numb, to ... his debts and bills? She's not much more than a girl herself, now a lover, mother and nurse. Ah, but he has married his Irish girl for better or for worse. 4. For a handsome man she would be a gift, so for him she is a prize, With her high complexion and her corn-blonde hair and her blue and ... eyes. Now they wait in each other's arms and she is the poet's wife, And though he may wander from his Irish girl, he will love her all his life. And though he may wander from his Irish girl, he will love her all his life. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: irish girl From: GUEST,Kernow jon Date: 14 Feb 01 - 03:05 PM Refresh KJ |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: irish girl From: Wolfgang Date: 09 Feb 01 - 04:55 AM The one I'm looking for I now know to be the one from Ralph McTell, that starts as Panda above has said. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: irish girl From: Wolfgang Date: 02 Feb 01 - 03:38 AM I don't know whether GUEST has found her song or not. There are many songs titled 'Irish girl'. I am looking for the lyrics to a song with this title sung by De Dannan on 'Hibernian Rhapsody'. It has the lines
'he would love her all his life I'd be grateful for any help. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: irish girl From: GUEST,panda Date: 16 Jan 01 - 04:49 PM is the irish girl you are looking for the one written by Ralph Mctell? starts:- what will he do now he's a man and should be settling down. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: irish girl From: Alice Date: 15 Jan 01 - 10:53 PM I sing it a bit differently than that version, more like one recorded by Davy Hammond in the 1950's. I think I may have posted it to the forum in the past. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: irish girl From: Sorcha Date: 15 Jan 01 - 09:55 PM click here |
Subject: irish girl From: GUEST Date: 15 Jan 01 - 09:41 PM |
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