N-McCarthy's Widow
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L-  'Twas three years a-go    this ve-ry day, I  took to me     a wife.      And e-ver since she's  proved to be a bur-den to me
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L-      life.  She was the wid-dy of Mc- Car-thy and of course that was her name, But for chan-ging it to Kel-ly,       Sure she's not to
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L-      blame.     She speaks a-bout Mc-Car-thy  and his vir-tues ev-'ry day,   And she wi-shes I'd keep so-ber and keep like him ev-'ry
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L-      way.  But she beat him with the broom-stick ev-'ry time the ba-by cried,     And made him rock the cra-dle till from cru-el-ty he
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L-       died,   For she'd lick him,  she'd kick him, she'd ne-ver let him be.      She'd lash him, she'd slash him  un  -til he could-n't
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L-      see.      Oh, Mc-Car-thy was-n't hear-ty, now she has a dif-f'rent par-ty,    She might have licked Mc-Car-thy but she can't lick
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L-      me.