Текст песни: Missus McGraw + перевод

«Ahhhhh, Mrs. McGraw,» the sergeant said

«Would you like to make a soldier out of your son Ted

With a scarlett coat and a big cocked hat

Oh, Mrs. McGraw, wouldn’t you like that?»

With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri, oor-ri-a

With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri, oor-ri-a

Now, Mrs. McGraw lived by the sea shore

For the space of seven long years or more

`till she saw a big ship sailing into the bay

«Here's my son Ted, wisha clear the way»

«Oh Captain dear, where have you been?

Or have you been in the Meditereen?

Will you tell me the news of my son Ted

Is the poor boy living or is he dead?»

Well up steps Ted without any legs

And in their place, he had two wooden pegs

Well she kissed him a dozen times or two

Sayin`:"Holy Moses, it isn’t you?"

«Ah then were you drunk, or were you blind

When you left your two fine legs behind?

Or was it while walking on the sea

A big fish ate your legs from the knees away?»

«No, I wasn’t drunk and I wasn’t blind

When I left my two fine legs behind

But a cannon ball on the fifth of May

Tore my two fine legs from the knees away»

«Oh, Teddy my boy,» the widow cried

«Your two fine legs were your mammy’s pride

Them old stumps of a tree wouldn’t do at all

Why didn’t you run from the big cannon ball?»

«Well all foreign wars I do proclaim

Between Don John and the King of Spain

And by herrins I`ll make them rue the time

That they shoot the legs from the child of mine»

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