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16 Jan 22 - 11:18 AM (#4132575) Subject: Lyr Add: Little Drummer Boy (sung by MacMurrough) From: GUEST,James Phillips Not THAT Little Drummer Boy, the other one! Couldn't seem to find the lyrics as sung by MacMurrough on this album so I thought I'd post them here for reference. LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (as sung by MacMurrough on Merry & Fine (1977) I was brought up right well me lads and when I was sixteen I ran away from home me lads and a soldier I became With a fine cap of feathers, likewise a rattling drum They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum (CHORUS) With a fine cap of feathers, likewise a rattling drum They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum With a gentle waist so slender and fingers long and small I could play upon the rub-a-dub the best of them all And it's many years the pranks that I saw amongst the French And boldly I did fight me boys although I'm but a wench And in buttoning up me trousers, how often have I smiled To think I lay with a thousand men and a maiden all the while And they never found me secret out until this very hour And they sent me up to London to be sentry at the tower And a lady fell in love with me and I told her I was a maid She went unto me officer and me secret she betrayed He unbuttoned up my red tunic and he found that it was true It's a shame, he said, to lose a pretty drummer boy like you So now I must return to me family at home And along with my bold comrades no longer can I roam |