Mrs. McGrath - Bruce Springsteen
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[verse1]
"Oh Mrs. McGrath," the sergeant said,
"Would you like a soldier of your son, Ted?
With a scarlet cloak and a fine cocked hat,
Mrs. McGrath wouldn't you like that?"
[chorsu]
With your too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa,
Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, too-ri-aa, fol-
Did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
[verse2]
Mrs. McGrath lived on the shore
And after seven years or more
she spied a ship come into the bay
with her son from far away
[verse3]
"Oh, Captain dear, where have you been.
Have you been out sailin' on the Mediteren'.
Have you any news of my son Ted.
Is he livin' or is he dead?"
[chorus]
[verse4]
Now came Ted without any legs
And in their place two wooden pegs
She kissed him a dozen times or two
Saying "My God Ted is it you?"
[verse5]
"Now were you drunk or were you blind
When you left your two fine legs behind?
Or was it walking upon the sea
That wore your two fine legs away?"
[chorus]
[verse6]
"No I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind
When I left my two fine legs behind.
a cannon ball on the fifth of May
Tore my two fine legs away."
[verse7]
"Now Teddy boy," the widow cried
"Your two fine legs was your mother's pride
Them stumps of a tree won't do at all
Why didn't you run from the cannon ball?"
[chorus]
[verse8]
All foreign wars, I do proclaim
Live on blood and a mother's pain
I'd rather have my son as he used to be
than the king of America and his whole navy
[chorus]