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I am a young fellow that's easy and bold,
In Castletown Connors I'm very well known.
In Newcastle West I spent many a note,
With Kitty and Judy and Mary

My father rebuked me for being such a rake,
And for spending my time in such frolicsome ways,
But I ne'er could forget the fair nature of Jane,
Agus fágfaimid siúd mar atá sé

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someone sat on me hat and I lost my week's pay
before the first light of the morning.

If you've chance for to go to the town of Rathkeale,
all the girls all around me will flock on the square.
and some bring me poitin and other sweet cakes,
for to treat me unknown to their old ones.

There is one from Askeaton, there's one from the Pike,
And another from Arda my heart has beguiled,
Tho' being from the mountains her stockings they're white,
Agus fágfaimid siúd mar atá sé.

To quarrel for riches I ne'er was inclined,
For the greatest of misers must leave them behind.
And I'll buy me a cow that will never run dry,
And I'll milk her by twisting her horn.

John Damer of Shronel had plenty of gold,
And Devonshire's treasures they're twenty times more,
But he's laid on his back among nettles and stones,
Agus fágfaimid siúd mar atá sé.

Now some say I'm foolish and more say I'm wise,
But being fond of the women I think is no crime,
For the son of King David had ten hundred wives,
And his wisdom was highly regarded.

And now for the future I mean to be wise,
And I'll send for the women who acted so kind,
And I'll marry them all on the morrow by and by,
If the clergy agreed to the bargain.

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someone sat on me hat and I lost my week's pay
Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé.

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