Misc Traditional – Mick Maguire (Guitar)

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Oh, me name is Mick Maguire and I'll quickly tell to you

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Of a young girl I admired, called Katy Donohue

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She was  fair and fat and forty and believe me when I say

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That whenever I came in at the door you could hear her mammy say

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Johnny get up from the fire, get up and give the man a seat

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Can't you see it's Mick Maguire and he's courtin' your sister Kate

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Ah, you know very well he owns a farm a wee bit out of the town

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So get up out of that, you impudent brat, and let Mr. Maguire sit down

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-owdle

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-ow

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-owdle

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-ow

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Ah, you know very well he owns a farm a wee bit out of the town

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So get up out of that, you impudent brat, and let Mr. Maguire sit down

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Now the first that I met her, was at the dance at Tarmagee

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And I very kindly asked her, if she'd dance a step with me

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Then I asked if I could see her home, if I'd be going her way

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And whenever I'd come in at the door you could hear her mammy say

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Johnny get up from the fire, get up and give the man a seat

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Can't you see it's Mick Maguire and he's courtin' your sister Kate

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Ah, you know very well he owns a farm a wee bit out of the town

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So get up out of that, you impudent brat, and let Mr. Maguire sit down

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-owdle

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-ow

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-owdle

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-ow

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Ah, you know very well he owns a farm a wee bit out of the town

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So get up out of that, you impudent brat, and let Mr. Maguire sit down

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Ah, but now that we are married, sure, her mother's changed her mind

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Because I spent the legacy her father left behind

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She hasn't got the decency to bid me time of day

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That whenever I come in at the door you'd hear the ould one 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 ould Maguire and he nearly drives me daft

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Ah I don't know what gets into him, for he's always on the tare

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Arragh just sit where you are and never you dare to give ould Maguire the chair

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-owdle

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-ow

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-owdle

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Diddle e dowdle-owdle-ow

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Ah I don't know what gets into him, for he's always on the tare

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Arragh just sit where you are and never you dare to give ould Maguire the chair