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Guitar: Red Haired Mary

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Channel: threelegsoman · 2009 · Music

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A new request for a song I thought I did not know, but when I heard it I realised that one of the Tuesday evening session members has sung this one recently. Also I wonder how it eluded me for so long as it was covered by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Anyway, here it is.

Red Haired Mary
Traditional
No capo

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As I was going to the fair at Dingle one fine morning last July
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When going down the road before me, a red haired girl I chanced to spy.

Well I went up to her, says I, "Young lady, me donkey, he will carry two."
And she looked at me, her eyes a-twinkle, and cheeks they were a rosy hue.

"Well I thank you kindly, sir," she answered, and then she tossed her bright red hair,
"Now seein' that you have got your donkey, I’ll ride with you to the Dingle fair."

But when we reached the fair at Dingle, I took her hand for to say good-bye,
When a tinker he stepped up behind me, and he hit me right in my left eye!

"Keep your hands off red-haired Mary, her and I are to be wed.
We're seein' the priest this very morning, and tonight we'll lie in a marriage bed."

Now I was feeling rather peevish, and my poor old eye was sad and sore,
So I tapped him lightly with me hobnails, and he flew back through Murphy's door!

"Keep your hands off red-haired Mary, her and I are to be wed.
We're seein' the priest this very morning, and tonight we'll lie in a marriage bed."

Then a policeman, he came round the corner, and he told me I had broke the law,
Then me donkey kicked him in the ankle, and he fell down and broke his jaw!

"Keep your hands off red-haired Mary, her and I are to be wed.
We're seein' the priest this very morning, and tonight we'll lie in a marriage bed."

Now he galloped off to find his brother; the tallest man I e'er did meet.
He 'gently' tapped me with his knuckles, and now I'm missing two front teeth.

"Keep your hands off red-haired Mary, her and I are to be wed.
We're seein' the priest this very morning, and tonight we'll lie in a marriage bed."

Now this red haired girl, she kept on smiling.  "Young man, I'll go with you,” she said
“Forget the priest this very morning, tonight we'll lie in Murphy's shed!”

"Keep your hands off red-haired Mary, her and I are to be wed.
Forget the priest this very morning, tonight we'll lie in Murphy's shed!”

Through the Dingle Fair we rode together, my black eye and her red hair.
Smilin' gaily at the tinkers, by God we were a handsome pair

"Keep your hands off red-haired Mary, her and I are to be wed.
Forget the priest this very morning, tonight we'll lie in Murphy's shed!”

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