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\selectlanguage{english}
\songcolumns{2}
\beginsong{Mrs. McGrath}
[by={Bruce Springsteen},cover={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