Sullivan's John-Anne Briggs

[ti:Sullivan's John] [ar:Anne Briggs] [al:Sing a Song for You] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sullivan's John - Anne Briggs [00:42.64]Sullivan's John to the road you've gone [00:47.04]Far away from your native home [00:51.49]You've gone with a tinker's daughter [00:54.55]For along the road to roam [00:59.56]Sullivan's John you won't stick it long [01:03.19]Your belly will soon get slack [01:06.55]You'll be roaming the road with a mighty load [01:11.71]And a tooten box on your back [01:24.59]I met Katy Coffey she'd her neat baby [01:29.53]Tossed behind on her back strapped on [01:33.73]She'd an old ash plant all in her hand [01:37.63]To drive her donkey along [01:41.64]Enquiring at every farmer's house [01:45.32]That along the road she passed [01:48.65]Oh it's where would she get an old pot to mend [01:54.15]Or where would she swap an a** [02:07.40]I heard of a fair in the County Clare [02:12.12]At a place call Spancil Hill [02:16.43]Where my brother James got a rap of the hames (harness) [02:21.16]Poor Paddy they tried to kill [02:23.45] [02:24.18]They loaded him up on an a** and cart [02:28.15]While Pat and Mary looked on [02:31.55]Oh bad luck to the day that I went away [02:36.88]To join a tinker's band