| Oh, me name is Mick McGuire and I’ll quickly tell to you
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| Of a girl that I admired, she was Katy Donahue
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| Ah, she’s fair and fat and forty and believe me when I say
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| Whenever I came through the door I could hear her mother say
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| «Johnny, get up from the fire, get up and give your man a sate
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| Can’t you see it’s Mick McGuire and he’s courting your sister Kate
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| You know very well he owns a farm a wee bit out of the town
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| Arragh, get out of that, you impudent brat and let the Mac sit down»
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| Well, the first time that I met her was a dance at Donaghadee
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| When I very quietly asked her if she’d dance a step for me
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| I asked if I could take her home for she’d be on me way
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| Whenever I came through the door I could hear her mother say
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| «Johnny, get up from the fire, get up and give your man a sate
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| Can’t you see it’s Mick McGuire and he’s courting your sister Kate
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| You know very well he owns a farm a wee bit out of the town
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| Arragh, get out of that, you impudent brat and let the Mac sit down»
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| And now that we are married, her mother changed her mind
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| All because I spent the money her father left behind
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| She hasn’t got the decency to give me time of day
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| Whenever I came through the door I could hear her mother say
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| «Johnny, come up to the fire, come up, you’re sitting in the draft
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| Can’t you see it’s old McGuire and he nearly drives me daft
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| Sure I don’t know what gets in him, and he’s always on the tare
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| So sit where you are and never you dare, give old McGuire the chair»
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| «Sure I don’t know what gets in him when he’s always on the tare
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| So sit where you are and never you dare, give old McGuire the chair»
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| «Sure I don’t know what gets in him when he’s always on the tare
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| So sit where you are and never you dare, give old McGuire the chair» |