The Bold Tenant Farmer

The Bold Tenant Farmer - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

One evening of late into Bandon I strayed

And bound for Clonakilty I'm making me way

At Ballinishcarthy some time I delayed

For to wet me auld whistle with porter

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I scarcely had travelled a mile of the road

When I heard a dispute in a farmers abode

The son of the landlord an ill looking toad

And the wife of the bold tenant farmer

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A robber the bold tenants wife she replied

You're as bad as your daddy on the other side

But the National Land League'll put down your pride

For they're able to bear every storm

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I spate in me fist and I picked up me stick

And up the coach road like a deer I did skip

I care not for bailiff landlord or auld Nick

And I sang like a lark in the morning

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