Red Haired Mary lyrics

While goin to the fair of Dingle

One fine morning last July

While going up the road before me

A red haired girl I chanced to spy

I went up to her, says I "Young Lady

My donkey he will carry two"

"Well seein' as how you have a donkey

To Dingle fair I'll ride with you"

Now, when we reached the town of Dingle

I took her hand to say goodbye

When a tinker man slide up beside me

And belted me in my left eye

Keep your hands off red haired Mary

Her and I will soon be wed

We'll see the priest this very morning

Tonight we'll lie in a married bed

Now, I was feeling kind of peevish

And my poor old eye was sad and sore

So I tapped him gently with me hobnail

And he fell back through Murphy's door

A policeman came around the corner

And told me I had broke the law

Then, the donkey kicked him in the kneecap

And he fell down and broke his jaw

Then he went off to find his brother

The biggest man you 'er did meet

And he tidily tapped me with his knuckles

And I was minus two front teeth

Keep your hands off red haired Mary

Her and I will soon be wed

We'll see the priest this very morning

Tonight we'll lie in a married bed

The red haired girl, she kept on smiling

"I'll go with you young man" she said

"We'll forget the priest this very morning

Tonight we'll lie in Murphy's shed"

Now, through the town we rode together

My black eye and her red hair

Smiling gaily at the tinkers

And b' God, we're a handsome pair

O' Take your hands off red haired Mary

Her and I will soon be wed

We'll forget the priest this very morning

Tonight we'll lie in Murphy's shed

Take your hands off red haired Mary

Her and I will soon be wed

We'll forget the priest this very morning

Tonight we'll lie in Murphy's shed

• Artist:The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem