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Tommy Makem does a neat live version of this one where he is beating on a lab stone and pretending to make shoes and stuff while singing the song!
Dick Darby
by trad
Oh me name is Dick Darby I’m a cobbler
I served me time at the old camp
some call me an old agi- tator
but now I’m re- solved to re- pent
(Chorus:
I’ve an inkling of an inkling of an idea
I’ve an inkling of an inkling of an ide-ea-a
with me roo-boo boo-roo boo-boo randy
and me lab stone keeps beating away)
Now me father was hung for sheep stealing
me mother was burned for a witch
my sisters a dandy housekeeper
and I’m a mechanical switch
(Chorus)
Ah its forty long years I have traveled
all by the contents of me pack
me hammers, me awls and me pinches
I carry them all on my back
(Chorus)
Oh my wife she is humpy, she’s lumpy
my wife she’s the devil she’s black
and no matter what I may do with her
her tongue it goes clickety clack
(Chorus)
It was early one fine summer’s mornin
a little before it was day
I dipped her three times in the river
and carelessly bade her “good day!”
(Chorus)
I served me time at the old camp
some call me an old agi- tator
but now I’m re- solved to re- pent
(Chorus:
I’ve an inkling of an inkling of an idea
I’ve an inkling of an inkling of an ide-ea-a
with me roo-boo boo-roo boo-boo randy
and me lab stone keeps beating away)
Now me father was hung for sheep stealing
me mother was burned for a witch
my sisters a dandy housekeeper
and I’m a mechanical switch
(Chorus)
Ah its forty long years I have traveled
all by the contents of me pack
me hammers, me awls and me pinches
I carry them all on my back
(Chorus)
Oh my wife she is humpy, she’s lumpy
my wife she’s the devil she’s black
and no matter what I may do with her
her tongue it goes clickety clack
(Chorus)
It was early one fine summer’s mornin
a little before it was day
I dipped her three times in the river
and carelessly bade her “good day!”
(Chorus)