Little Bridget Flynn (Percy French/traditional air)

I've a nice slated house and a cow or two at grass, I've a plant garden running by the door; I've a shelter for the hens and a stable for the ass, And what can a man want more. I dunno; maybe so, And a bachelor is easy and he's free, But I've plenty to look after, And I'm living all alone, And there's no one looking after me.

Me father often tells me I should go and have a try, To get a girl that owns a bit of land; I know the way he says it that there's someone in his eye And me mother has the whole thing planned; I dunno, maybe so, And 'twould mellify them greatly to agree, But there's' little Brigid Flynn, Sure it's her I want to win, Though she never throws an eye on me.

Oh! There's a little girl who is worth her weight in gold An' that's a dacent dowry don't you see; And I mean to go and ax her as soon as I get bold, If she'll come and have an eye to me. Will she go? I dunno But I'd like to have her sitting on me knee, And I'd sing like a thrush, On a hawthorn bush If she'll come and have an eye to me.

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