Mrs Mcgrath lyrics

"Now Mrs. McGrath," the sergeant said, 

"Would you like a soldier of your son Ted? 

With a scarlet coat and a big cocked hat, 

Mrs. McGrath would you like that?" 

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Now Mrs.. McGrath lived on the shore 

And after seven years or more 

She spied a ship come into the bay 

With her son from far away. 

"Oh, Captain dear, where have you been. 

Have you been sailing the Mediterranean. 

Have you news of my son Ted. 

Is he living or is he dead?"

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Then came Ted without any legs 

And in their place two wooden pegs 

She kissed him a dozen times or two 

And said "My God, Ted is it you?" 

"Now was you drunk or was you blind 

When you left your two fine legs behind? 

Or was it out walking upon the sea 

That wore your two fine legs away?" 

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

"No I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind 

When I left my two fine legs behind. 

A cannon ball on the fifth of May 

Tore my two fine legs away." 

"Now Teddy boy," the widow cried 

"Your two fine legs were your mother's pride 

Stumps of a tree won't do at all 

Why didn't you run from the cannon ball?"

 Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

All foreign wars I do proclaim

Live on blood and a mother's pain

I'd rather have my son as he used to be

Than the king of America and his whole navy.

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay

Ya tu ra ay fo diddly ay

Tu ra oo ra oo ra ay...