Ballybay lyrics

Artist  : Prodigals The 
Song : Ballybay



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In the town of Ballybay-hay 

There was a maiden dwelling. 

I knew her very well 

And her story's worth a telling. 

And her father kept a still, 

And he was a good distiller.... 

When she took to drink as well 

Well the devil couldn't fill her 



A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly 



She had a wooden leg it was hollow down the
middle 

She used to tie a sting in it and play it like a
fiddle 

She fiddled in the hall, she fiddled in the
alleyway 

She didn't give a damn sure she had to fiddle
anyway 



A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly 



She said she wouldn't dance unless she had her
welly 

But when she had it on she would dance as well as
any. 

Once said she wouldn't go to bed unless she had
her shimmy 

But when she had it on she would go as quick as
any. 

A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly 



She had lovers by the score every Tom, Dick and
Harry 

And she courted night and day but still she
wouldn't marry 

Then she fell in love with a fellow with a
stammer 

When he tried to get away, she hit him with a
hammer 



A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly 



Greg:"Andrew Harkin on bass!" (bass solo) 



Childer on the stairs and childer in the pyre 

And another ten or twelve sitting rolling by the
fire 

And she fed him on potatoes

and a soup she made with nettles 

And a lot of hairy bacon that she boiled in a
kettle 



A ring-a-dom a doo, a ring-a-dom a delly 



She led a sheltered life, eating porridge and
black pudding. 

And she terrorized her man until he died quite
sudden. 

And when her husband died she was feeling very
sorry 

She rolled him in a bag and she threw him in a
quarry