songbook/bruce_springsteen/mrs_mcgrath.sg

\selectlanguage{english}
\songcolumns{2}
\beginsong{Mrs. McGrath}
  [by={Bruce Springsteen},cov={we-shall-overcome},album={We shall overcome}]

  \cover
  \gtab{Dm}{XX0231}
  \gtab{F}{1:022100}
  \gtab{C}{X32010}

  \lilypond{Mrs_McGrath}

  \begin{verse}
    ``Oh, \[Dm]Mrs. McGrath'', the sergeant said
    ``Would you \[F]like to make a soldier \[C]out of your son Ted
    With a \[C]scarlett coat and a big cocked hat
    Oh, Mrs. McGrath, wouldn't \[Dm]you like that?''
  \end{verse}

  \begin{chorus}
    With your \[Dm]too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da
    \[F]Too-ri, oor-ri, \[C]oor-ri-a
    With your \[C]too-ri-a, fol-di-diddle-da
    Too-ri, oor-ri, \[Dm]oor-ri-a
  \end{chorus}

  \begin{verse}
    Now, Mrs. McGrath lived on the shore
    For the space of seven long years or more
    She spied a ship coming into the bay
    With her son from far away
  \end{verse}

  \begin{verse*}
    ``Oh captain dear, where have you been
    You've been sailing the Mediterranean
    Have you news of my son Ted
    Is he living or is he dead?''
  \end{verse*}

  \begin{verse}
    Up 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?''
  \end{verse}

  \begin{verse*}
    ``Now, were you drunk or were you blind
    When you left your two fine legs behind?
    Or was it walking upon the sea
    That wore your two fine legs away?''
  \end{verse*}

  \begin{verse}
    ``No, I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind
    When I left my two fine legs behind
    A cannon ball on the fifth of May
    Tore my two fine legs away''
  \end{verse}

  \begin{verse*}
    ``Oh, Teddyboy'', the widow cried
    ``Your two fine legs were your mother's pride
    Stumps of a tree won't do at all
    Why didn't you run from the cannon ball?''
  \end{verse*}

  \begin{verse}
    ``All foreign wars I do proclaim
    Live on the blood and the mothers' pain
    I'd rather have my son as he used to be
    Than the king of America and his whole Navy''
  \end{verse}

\endsong