Val Doonican - The Devil And The Bailiff текст песни

Ha! Ha!....Ha! Ha!.

One fine pleasant evening last summer
I was strolling through Couvenemy
When a couple of playboys were standing
Before me I happened to see.
Now to know what these boyo's were up to
In a trifle I hastened me walk
Pretty soon did I learn their profession
When I got within line of their talk.

Ha! Ha!....Ha! Ha!.

Now one of these lads was the divil
The other was bailiff McGlynn
And the one was as nice as the other
For they both were as ugly as sin.
Says the ould lad,
"Ye know I'm the devil and you are a bailiff I see"
"It's the devil himself" says the bailiff
"says well that bates the devil" says he.

Ha! Ha!....Ha! Ha!.

Then a young lad ran out of a cottage
And off with him over the fields.
"May the devil take you" says his mother
As she rattled a stone cross his heels.
"Arrah why don't you take the young rascal,
"Your Highness," the Bailiff he cried.
"Ah! twas not from her heart the wish it came,"
The devil he smiled and replied.

Ha! Ha!....Ha! Ha!.

The the young man ran back and espied them
And into his mother he fled
Shouting, "Oh, mother dear it's the bailiff,"
Well she clasped her two hands and she said,
"MAY THE DeVIL TAKE THAT UGLY BAILIFF."
Says the devil, "Be that I'll do.
It was straight from her heart the wish it came,
So Bailiff McGlynn I'LL TAKE YOU."

Ha! Ha!....Ha! Ha!.

(Spoken) And He Did!