Westmeath Bachelor

I am a Westmeath Bachelor and my age is 63
I don't intend to marry or to raise a family
I'm happy and contented to lead a single life
That's why I'm a bachelor and I never take a wife.

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With the red stuff on her fingernails and varnish on her toes
Raddle on her ould fisogue and whitewash on her nose
It would take a fancy barber, to shave her neck and head
That's why I'm a bachelor and I don't intend to wed.

I'm living with my brother and his little cat and dog
I'm earning seven and six a week for working on the bog
Why should I change this life of ease for one of struggle and strife
That's the very reason why I'll never take a wife.

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One day while at the market, in the town of Mullingar
A friend he introduced me to a famous movie star
She'd been married several times before to men of different creed
And she thought she had a sucker in the bachelor from Westmeath.

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