My name is Bold Doherty From the North Country Where there's a still upon every stream Landlady be quicker And bring us more liquor And fill us a pitcher that's stronger than cream If I had you Molly so pleasant and jolly, Although it's a folly to ask it at all Oh if I had a glass and a mile to the bottom I'd drink to you Molly in old Donegal
Chorus: With me folderoldol, With me folderol dariddy, folderol dol, Raddly folderol dee
I'd a new pair of brogues I'd brought home from the market, I wanted an excuse for to go back to town So I told me old mother The seams they were ripped And I needed some nails for to rivet them round She clothed me hand with a bright silver shilling And said the remainder it would be me own "When you go to town you may buy a full naggin - beware you bring none of your fancy girls home"
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When crossing the hills Of me brave Enniskillen, I went into an alehouse for to take a dram There I saw two tinkers dividing a saucepan Although they were arguing about a tin can Then one of them took a great blow at the other And said" Me old villain I will take your life For your saucepans are leaking And can't hold the water Since ever bold Doherty spoke to your wife!"
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And when I got home sure The door it was bolted, I rapped up me mother for to let me in Begone from this place were the words That she mentioned, for inside that door You will not venture in You may go away to wherever you came from, For to lock you out now I think 't is no sin Says I,"me good woman you may hold your temper For I can get lodgings with Norah McGlynn!"