We shall overcome the seeger sessions

Released: 25.april 2006

Live In Dublin

Mrs. McGrath

 "Mrs McGrath," the sergeant said, 

"would you like a soldier of your son, Ted?

With a scarlet coat and a big cocked hat, 

Mrs McGrath would you like that?"

With your too-ri-aa, fol-ded-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

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

"O captain dear where have ye been?

you been sailing the Mediterranean?

Have you news of my son Ted?

Is he living or is he dead?"

With your too-ri-aa, fol-ded-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

Then came Ted without any legs

and in their place two wooden pegs

She kissed him a dozen times or two

And said, "My God Ted is it you?

Now were ye drunk or were ye blind?

When ye left yer two fine legs behind?

Or was it walking upon the sea

that wore your two fine legs away?"

With your too-ri-aa, fol-ded-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

With your too-ri-aa, fol-ded-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

Now I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind

When I left my two fine legs behind

A cannonball on the fifth of May

Tore my two fine legs away

"My, Teddy boy," the widow cried

"yer two fine legs were yer mother's pride

stumps of a tree won't do at all

Why didn't ye run from the cannonball?"

With your too-ri-aa, fol-ded-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

With your too-ri-aa, fol-ded-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

"All foreign wars I do proclaim

live on blood an a mothers pain

I'd rather have my son as he used to be

Than the King of America

And his whole Navy!"

With your too-ri-aa, fol-ded-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

With your too-ri-aa, fol-ded-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

With your too-ri-aa, fol-ded-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