Cover Song: "Nancy Mulligan" (Patreon)

I've been wanting to cover this one for awhile, and I think it worked out okay.

[Verse 1]I was twenty-four years oldWhen I met the woman I would call my ownTwenty-two grand kids now growin' oldIn that house that your brother bought yaOn the summer day when I proposedI made that wedding ring from dentist goldAnd I asked her father, but her daddy said, "NoYou can't marry my daughter"[Chorus]She and I went on the runDon't care about religionI'm gonna marry the woman I loveDown by the Wexford borderShe was Nancy MulliganAnd I was William SheeranShe took my name and then we were oneDown by the Wexford border[Verse 2]Well, I met her at Guy's in the second World WarAnd she was workin' on a soldier's wardNever had I seen such beauty beforeThe moment that I saw herNancy was my yellow roseAnd we got married wearin' borrowed clothesWe got eight children now growin' oldFive sons and three daughters

[Chorus]She and I went on the runDon't care about religionI'm gonna marry the woman I loveDown by the Wexford borderShe was Nancy MulliganAnd I was William SheeranShe took my name and then we were oneDown by the Wexford border[Verse 3]From her snow-white streak in her jet-black hairOver sixty years I've been lovin' herNow we're sat by the fire in our old armchairsYou know, Nancy, I adore yaFrom a farm boy born near Belfast townI never worried 'bout the king and crown'Cause I found my heart upon the southern groundThere's no difference, I assure ya[Chorus]She and I went on the runDon't care about religionI'm gonna marry the woman I loveDown by the Wexford borderShe was Nancy MulliganAnd I was William SheeranShe took my name and then we were oneDown by the Wexford border

Words & Music: Ed Sheeran et al.