| I’m always drunk and I’m seldom sober
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| A constant roving from town to town
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| Ah but I’m old now, my sporting’s over
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| So Molly, a stór, won’t you lay me down?
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| Just lay my head on a keg of brandy
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| It is my fancy, I do declare
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| For while I’m drinking, I’m always thinking
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| On lovely Molly from the County Clare
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| The ripest apple is the soonest rotten
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| And the warmest love is the soonest cold
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| And a young man’s fancies are soon forgotten
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| Beware, young maids, and don’t make so bold
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| Just lay my head on a keg of brandy
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| It is my fancy, I do declare
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| For while I’m drinking, I’m always thinking
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| On lovely Molly from the County Clare
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| For it’s youth and folly make young men marry
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| And makes them tarry along the day
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| What can’t be cured, love, must be endured, love
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| So farewell, darling, I’m going away |