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The Prodigals
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Greg: "And now we're going to play a little song,
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A very tragic tune about a woman with a wooden leg
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Who dumped her husband in a quarry."
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Crowd: "Yay!"
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In the town of Ballybay-hay
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There was a maiden dwelling.
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I knew her very well
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And her story's worth a telling.
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And her father kept a still,
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And he was a good distiller....
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When she took to drink as well
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Well the devil couldn't fill her
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A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly
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She had a wooden leg it was hollow down the middle
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She used to tie a sting in it and play it like a fiddle
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She fiddled in the hall, she fiddled in the alleyway
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She didn't give a damn sure she had to fiddle anyway
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A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly
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She said she wouldn't dance unless she had her welly
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But when she had it on she would dance as well as any.
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Once said she wouldn't go to bed unless she had her shimmy
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But when she had it on she would go as quick as any.
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A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly
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She had lovers by the score every Tom, Dick and Harry
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And she courted night and day but still she wouldn't marry
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Then she fell in love with a fellow with a stammer
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When he tried to get away, she hit him with a hammer
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A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly
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Greg:"Andrew Harkin on bass!" (bass solo)
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Childer on the stairs and childer in the pyre
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And another ten or twelve sitting rolling by the fire
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And she fed him on potatoes
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And a soup she made with nettles
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And a lot of hairy bacon that she boiled in a kettle
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A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly
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She led a sheltered life, eating porridge and black pudding.
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And she terrorized her man until he died quite sudden.
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And when her husband died she was feeling very sorry
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She rolled him in a bag and she threw him in a quarry
Makem & Clancy - The town of Ballybay
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