Key: Em
Introduction:
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I was twenty-four years old when I met the woman I would call my own
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Twenty-two grand kids now growing old in that house that your brother bought ya
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On the summer day when I proposed, I made that wedding ring from dentist gold
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And I asked her father but her daddy said no, you can't marry my daughter
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She and I went on the run, don't care about religion
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I'm gonna marry the woman I love, down by the Wexford border
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She was Nancy Mulligan, and I was William Sheeran
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She took my name and then we were one, down by the Wexford border
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Well I met her at Guy's in the second world war and she was working on a soldier's ward
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Never had I seen such beauty before the moment that I saw her
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Nancy was my yellow rose and we got married wearing borrowed clothes
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We got eight children now growing old, five sons and three daughters
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She and I went on the run, don't care about religion
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I'm gonna marry the woman I love, down by the Wexford border
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She was Nancy Mulligan, and I was William Sheeran
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She took my name and then we were one, down by the Wexford border
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From her snow white streak in her jet black hair, over sixty years I've been loving her
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Now we're sat by the fire in our old armchairs, you know Nancy I adore ya
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From a farm boy born near Belfast town, I never worried about the king and crown
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'Cause I found my heart upon the southern ground, there's no difference I assure ya
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She and I went on the run, don't care about religion
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I'm gonna marry the woman I love, down by the Wexford border
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She was Nancy Mulligan, and I was William Sheeran
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She took my name and then we were one, down by the Wexford border
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