Town Of Ballybay-Larry Smith

[ti:Town of Ballybay] [ar:Larry Smith] [al:The Greatest Ever Irish Pub Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Town Of Ballybay - Larry Smith [00:02.62]In the town of ballybay there was a lassie dwelling [00:05.20]I knew her very well and her story's well worth telling [00:07.73]Her father kept a still and he was a good distiller [00:10.14]But when she took to the drink well the devil wouldn't fill her [00:12.46]Ring-a-ding-a-dong ring-a-ding-a-daddy-o [00:12.75] [00:15.22]Ring-a-ding-a-dong whack fol the daddy o [00:17.52] [00:20.14]She had a wooden leg that was hollow down the middle [00:22.30]She used to tie a string on it and play it like a fiddle [00:24.81]She fiddled in the hall and she fiddled in the alleyway [00:26.30] [00:27.26]She didn't give a damn for she had to fiddle anyway [00:29.84]Ring-a-ding-a-dong ring-a-ding-a-daddy-o [00:32.17]Ring-a-ding-a-dong whack fol the daddy o [00:34.60] [00:37.04]She said she couldn't dance unless she had her wellie on [00:39.48]But when she had it on she could dance as well as anyone [00:41.87]She wouldn't go to bed unless she had her shimmy on [00:44.30]But when she had it on she would go as quick as anyone [00:46.70]Ring-a-ding-a-dong ring-a-ding-a-daddy-o [00:49.07]Ring-a-ding-a-dong whack fol the daddy o [00:51.47] [00:53.78]She had lovers by the score every tom and dick and harry [00:56.39]She was courted night and day but still she wouldn't marry [00:59.03]But then she fell in love with a fellow with a stammer [01:01.22]When he tried to run away well she hit him with a hammer [01:03.57]Ring-a-ding-a-dong ring-a-ding-a-daddy-o [01:06.10]Ring-a-ding-a-dong whack fol the daddy o [01:08.47] [01:10.72]She had children up the stairs she had children by the byre [01:13.37]And another ten or twelve sitting roaring by the fire [01:15.82]She fed them on potatoes and on soup she made with nettles [01:18.28]And lumps of hairy bacon that she boiled up in the kettle [01:20.63]Ring-a-ding-a-dong ring-a-ding-a-daddy-o [01:23.20]Ring-a-ding-a-dong whack fol the daddy o [01:25.52] [01:27.99]She led a sheltered life eating porridge and black pudding [01:30.38]And she terrorized her man until he died quite sudden [01:32.84]And when her husband died well she wasn't very sorry [01:35.26]She rolled him in a bag and she threw him in a quarry [01:37.65]Ring-a-ding-a-dong ring-a-ding-a-daddy-o [01:40.13]Ring-a-ding-a-dong whack fol the daddy o [01:42.77]Ring-a-ding-a-dong ring-a-ding-a-daddy-o [01:45.04]Ring-a-ding-a-dong whack fol the daddy o