Mrs. McGrath Chords & Lyrics by Bruce Springsteen

Mrs. McGrath

guitar chords lyrics

Bruce Springsteen

Album : We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions folk PlayStop



Mrs. McGrath - Bruce Springsteen
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[verse1]
Dm
"Oh Mrs. McGrath," the sergeant said,
F C
"Would you like a soldier of your son, Ted?


With a scarlet cloak and a fine cocked hat,
Dm
Mrs. McGrath wouldn't you like that?"


[chorsu]
Dm
With your too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa,
F C
Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, too-ri-aa, fol-
Dm
Did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa


[verse2]
Dm
Mrs. McGrath lived on the shore
F C
And after seven years or more

she spied a ship come into the bay
Dm
with her son from far away

[verse3]
Dm
"Oh, Captain dear, where have you been.
F C
Have you been out sailin' on the Mediteren'.

Have you any news of my son Ted.
Dm
Is he livin' or is he dead?"


[chorus]


[verse4]
Dm
Now came Ted without any legs
F C
And in their place two wooden pegs

She kissed him a dozen times or two
Dm
Saying "My God Ted is it you?"

[verse5]
Dm
"Now were you drunk or were you blind
F C
When you left your two fine legs behind?

Or was it walking upon the sea
Dm
That wore your two fine legs away?"


[chorus]


[verse6]
Dm
"No I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind
F C
When I left my two fine legs behind.

a cannon ball on the fifth of May
Dm
Tore my two fine legs away."

[verse7]
Dm
"Now Teddy boy," the widow cried
F C
"Your two fine legs was your mother's pride

Them stumps of a tree won't do at all
Dm
Why didn't you run from the cannon ball?"


[chorus]


[verse8]
Dm
All foreign wars, I do proclaim
F C
Live on blood and a mother's pain

I'd rather have my son as he used to be
Dm
than the king of America and his whole navy


[chorus]

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