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As I was going to the fair of Dingle
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One fine morning last July
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A fine young man came up behind me
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"Red Haired Mary" he did cry
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"Would you come with me my Red-Haired Mary
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My donkey he will carry two"
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I looked my eyes did twinkle
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me cheeks they were a rosy hue
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"Thank you kindly sir" I answered
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And I shook my bright red hair
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Saying "Would you hold the donkey
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Then I'll ride with you to the Dingle Fair."
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Now, when we reached the town of Dingle
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He took my hand to say goodbye
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When a tinker man stepped up beside him
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And he belted him in his left eye
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Keep your hands off red haired Mary
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Her and I will soon be wed
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We'll see the priest this very morning
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And tonight we'll lie in a married bed
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Well, he was feeling very peevish,
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his poor eye was sad and sore
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He kicked the tinker with his hobnails,
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knocked him through Tom Murphy's door
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A policeman came around the corner
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And he told me I had broke the law
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Then, the donkey kicked him in the kneecap
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And he fell down and broke his jaw
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Then he went off to find his brother
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The hot biggest man you ever did meet
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He tapped him gently with his knuckles
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and now he's missing two front teeth
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Oh wasn't I the happy cailin
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"man, with you I'll go," I said
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"Never mind the priest this very morn,
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tonight we'll sleep in Murphy's shed"
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Keep your hands off red haired Mary
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Her and I will soon be wed
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"Never mind the priest this very morn,
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tonight we'll sleep in Murphy's shed"
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Around the corner came a peeler,
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told him I had broke the law
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The donkey kicked him on the kneecap,
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he fell down and broke his jaw
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To the fair we roamed together
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his black eye and my red hair
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Gazing gaily at the tinker,
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weren't we the happy pair?
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Keep your hands off red haired Mary
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Her and I will soon be wed
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"Never mind the priest this very morn,
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tonight we'll sleep in Murphy's shed"