tipping it up to nancy - ciarán cooney lyrics
[verse 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
[chorus]
with me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
with me right finnickineerio, we’re tipping it up to nancy
[verse 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?
[chorus]
with me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
with me right finnickineerio, we’re tipping it up to nancy
[verse 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.”
[chorus]
with me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
with me right finnickineerio, we’re tipping it up to nancy
[verse 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
[chorus]
with me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
with me right finnickineerio, we’re tipping it up to nancy
[verse 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”
[chorus]
with me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
with me right finnickineerio, we’re tipping it up to nancy
[verse 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
[chorus]
with me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
with me right finnickineerio, we’re tipping it up to nancy
[verse 7]
she swam through the river, she swam through the brine
“oh martin, dear martin. don’t leave me behind.”
[chorus]
with me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
with me right finnickineerio, we’re tipping it up to nancy
[verse 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”
[chorus]
with me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
with me right finnickineerio, we’re tipping it up to nancy
[verse 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
[chorus]
with me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
with me right finnickineerio, we’re tipping it up to nancy
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