Tipping It Up to Nancy

Melody -

1. Oh, there's been a woman in our town,
A woman you ought know well
She dearly loved her husband
And another man twice as well.

Refrain:
With me right finnickineerio,
Me tip finnick a wall
With me right finnickineerio,
We're tipping it up to Nancy.

2. She went down to the chemist shop
Some remedies for to buy,
Have you anything in your chemist shop
To make me old man blind?

3. Give him eggs and marrowbones
And make him suck them all,
Before he has the last one sucked,
He won't see you at all.

4. She gave him eggs and marrowbones
And made him suck them all,
Before he had the last one sucked,
He couldn't see her at all.
  5. If in this world I cannot see,
Here I cannot stay.
I'd drown myself; "Come on," says she,
"And I'll show you the way."

6. She led him to the river,
She led him to the brim
But sly enough of Martin,
It was him that shoved her in.


7. She swam through the river,
She swam through the brine
"Oh Martin, dear Martin.
Don't leave me behind."

8. "Oh Martin, dear Martin.
Don't leave me behind."
"Yerra shut up outa that ye silly aul fool',
Ye know poor Martin is blind."

9. There's nine in me family
And none of them is my own,
I wish that each and every man
Would come and claim his own.


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