[ti:Mrs. McGrath]
[ar:Bruce Springsteen]
[al:The Seeger Sessions]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:26.350] "Mrs. McGrath," the sergeant said,“
[00:29.450] "Would you like to make a solider out of your son Ted?“
[00:32.140] With a scarlet coat and a big cocked hat,
[00:34.930] And Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't you like that?"
[00:37.850] chorus
[00:39.130] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[00:43.580] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[00:51.490] Now, Mrs. McGrath lived on the shore,
[00:53.690] And after seven years or more
[00:56.620] She spied a ship come into the bay
[00:58.840] With her son from far away
[01:01.740] "Oh captain dear, where have you been?“
[01:04.290] You've been sailing the Mediterranean.
[01:06.990] Have you news of my son Ted?
[01:09.920] Is he living or is he dead?"
[01:12.950] chorus
[01:13.660] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[01:18.320] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[01:26.610] Up came Ted without any legs
[01:28.300] And in their place, two wooden pegs.
[01:30.980] She kissed him a dozen times or two
[01:36.850] "Now were you drunk or were you blind“
[01:38.850] When you left your two fine legs behind?
[01:42.410] Or was it walking upon the sea
[01:44.200] That wore your two fine legs away?"
[01:47.010] chorus
[01:47.850] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[01:52.380] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[01:57.760] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[02:02.900] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[02:11.670] "No, I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind.“
[02:13.570] When I left my two fine legs behind.
[02:17.010] A cannon ball on the fifth of May.
[02:18.810] Tore my two fine legs away."
[02:22.400] "Oh, Teddy boby," the window cried.“
[02:24.120] "Your two fine legs were your mother's pride.“
[02:27.310] Stumps of a tree won't do at all.
[02:29.690] Why didn't you run from the cannon ball?"
[02:32.220] chorus
[02:34.260] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[02:38.150] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[02:43.340] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[02:48.980] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[03:27.020] "All foreign wars I do proclaim“
[03:29.260] Live on the blood and the mothers'pain.
[03:32.090] I'd rather have my son as he used to be
[03:34.530] Than the King of America and his whole navy."
[03:37.990] chorus
[03:39.830] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[03:45.610] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[03:50.870] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[03:56.240] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[04:01.610] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[04:06.820] With your too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da, too-ri, oor-ri,oor-ri-a
[04:23.090] END