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Nancy was a woman of questionable morals. She had more than one man at a time. Nancy wanted to make her husband go blind so he wouldn't know what she was doing. He threw her into the river, and now he has 9 kids who he is not the father of to contend with.
Tipping It Up To Nancy
D
Oh, there's been a woman in our town, a woman you ought know well
G D Em D
She dearly loved her husband and another man twice as well
D
With me right finnickineerio, me tip finnick a wall
G Em D
With me right finnickineerio, We're tipping it up to Nancy
D
She went down to the chemist shop some remedies for to buy,
G D Em D
Have you anything in your chemist shop to make me old man blind?
CHORUS
D
Give him eggs and marrowbones and make him suck them all,
G D Em D
Before he has the last one sucked, he won't see you at all."
CHORUS
D
She gave him eggs and marrowbones and made him suck them all,
G D Em D
Before he had the last one sucked, he couldn't see her at all.
CHORUS
D
If in this world I cannot see, here I cannot stay.
G D Em D
I'd drown myself; "Come on," says she, "and I'll show you the way"
CHORUS
D
She led him to the river, she led him to the brim
G D Em D
But sly enough of Martin, it was him that shoved her in.
CHORUS
D
She swam through the river, she swam through the brine
G D Em D
"Oh Martin, dear Martin. Don't leave me behind."
CHORUS
D
"Oh Martin, dear Martin. Don't leave me behind."
G D Em D
"Yerra shut up outa that ye silly aul fool, ye know poor Martin is blind"
CHORUS
D
There's nine in me family and none of them is my own,
G D Em D
I wish that each and every man would come and claim his own.
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