Bài hát Mrs. McGrath Báo Lỗi

"Mrs. McGraw," the sergeant said,

"Would you like A SOLDIER

Out of your son, Ted?

With a scarlet cloak and a BIG cocked hat,

Mrs. McGraw wouldn't you like that?"


NOW Mrs. McGraw lived on the SHORE

AND AFTER SEVEN years or more

SHE SPY'D A SHIP COMIN' IN ON THE BAY

WITH HER SON FROM FAR AWAY


"Oh, Captain dear, where have you been.

Have you been out sailin' on the Mediteren'.

Have you NEWS of my son Ted.

Is HE livin' or is he dead?"


THEN 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?"


"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?"


"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."


"MY Teddy boy," the widow cried

"Your two fine legs WERE your MOTHERS pride "

stumps of a tree won't do at all

Why didn't you run from the cannon ball?"


"ALL FOREIGN WARS I DO PROCLAIM

LIVE ON BLOOD AND A MOTHERS PAIN

I'D RATHER HAVE MY SON IS A USE TO ME

THEN A KING OF AMERICA AND HIS WHOLE NAVY"