The Twang Man-The Dubliners

[ti:The Twang Man] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:At Their Best] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Twang Man - The Dubliners [00:02.31]Come listen to my story it's about a nice young man [00:07.58] [00:09.60]When the militia wasn't a wantin' he dealt in hawkin' twang [00:14.11] [00:15.64]He loved a lovely maiden as fair as any midge [00:20.29] [00:21.67]And she kept a traycle depot one side of the Carlisle bridge [00:26.21] [00:27.91]Well another one came a courtin' her and his name was Mickey Baggs [00:32.56] [00:34.17]He was a commercial traveller and he dealt in bones and rags [00:38.63] [00:40.21]Well he took her out to Sandymount for to see the waters roll [00:45.35] [00:46.44]And he stole the heart of the Twangman's girl playin' 'Billy In The Bowl' [00:51.34] [00:52.88]Oh when the twang man heard of this he flew into a terrible rage [00:57.21] [00:58.23]And he swore be the content of his twang cart on him he'd have revenge [01:03.49] [01:04.52]So he stood in wait near James' gate till the poor old Baggs came up [01:10.00] [01:10.68]And with his twang knife sure he took the life of the poor old gather `em up [01:15.60] [01:17.15]And it's now ye have heard me story and I hope ye'll be good men [01:21.31] [01:22.41]And not go chasing the Twangman's mot or any other oul' hen [01:26.50] [01:28.31]For she'll leave you without a brass farthing not even your old sack of rags [01:32.85] [01:33.70]And that's the end of the story of poor old Mickey the Baggs