The Irish Ballad-Tom Lehrer

[ti:The Irish Ballad] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:My Home Town] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Irish Ballad - Tom Lehrer [00:07.08]About a maid I'll sing a song [00:09.19]Sing rickety-tickety-tin [00:10.61] [00:11.65]About a maid I'll sing a song [00:14.07]Who didn't have her family long [00:16.60]Not only did she do them wrong [00:19.10] [00:20.16]She did every one of them in [00:22.89]Them in [00:23.86]She did every one of them in [00:26.30] [00:27.57]One morning in a fit of pique [00:29.27] [00:29.78]Sing rickety-tickety-tin [00:31.35] [00:32.25]One morning in a fit of pique [00:33.85] [00:34.38]She drowned her father in the creek [00:36.22] [00:36.75]The water tasted bad for a week [00:39.50] [00:40.34]And we had to make do with gin [00:42.39] [00:42.98]With gin [00:43.64] [00:44.20]We had to make do with gin [00:46.02] [00:47.81]Her mother she could never stand [00:49.93]Sing rickety-tickety-tin [00:51.41] [00:52.09]Her mother she could never stand [00:54.28]And so a cyanide soup she planned [00:56.52] [00:57.24]Her mother died with a spoon in her hand [00:59.92] [01:00.92]And her face in a hideous grin [01:04.11]A grin [01:05.48]Her face in a hideous grin [01:07.75] [01:09.04]She set her sister's hair on fire [01:11.45]Rickety-tickety-tin [01:13.05] [01:13.71]She set her sister's hair on fire [01:15.86]And as the smoke and flame rose higher [01:18.57]Danced around the funeral pyre [01:21.49] [01:22.25]Playin' a violin [01:24.62]'Olin [01:25.41] [01:26.06]Playin' a violin [01:27.83] [01:29.43]She weighted her brother down with stones [01:31.74]Rickety-tickety-tin [01:33.16]She weighted her brother down with stones [01:35.05]And sent him off to Davy Jones [01:36.86]All they ever found were some bones [01:40.13] [01:41.02]And the occasional pieces of skin [01:44.53] [01:45.24]Of skin [01:46.38]Occasional pieces of skin [01:48.23] [01:49.93]One day when she had nothing to do [01:52.09]Rickety-tickety-tin [01:53.73] [01:54.34]One day when she had nothing to do [01:56.59]She cut her baby brother in two [01:58.80]And served him up as an Irish stew [02:01.67] [02:02.69]And invited the neighbors in [02:05.20]'Bors in [02:06.42]Invited the neighbors in [02:08.37] [02:09.98]And when at last the police came by [02:11.85]Rickety-tickety-tin [02:13.53] [02:14.14]And when at last the police came by [02:16.07]Her little pranks she did not deny [02:17.93] [02:18.70]To do so she would have had to lie [02:21.22] [02:22.22]And lying she knew was a sin [02:25.23]A sin [02:26.31]Lying she knew was a sin [02:28.88] [02:30.00]My tragic tale I won't prolong [02:32.21]Rickety-tickety-tin [02:33.53]My tragic tale I won't prolong [02:35.37]And if you do not enjoy my song [02:37.25]You've yourselves to blame if it's too long [02:39.78] [02:40.59]You should never have let me begin [02:43.39]Begin [02:44.49]You should never have let me begin