text: Mrs. McGrath, the sergeant said
  Would you like to make a soldier
  Out of your son, Ted?
  With a scarlet cloak and a big cocked hat
  Mrs. McGrath, wouldnt you like that?
  With your too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, with your too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  Mrs. McGrath lived on the shore
  And after seven years or more
  She spied a ship come into the bay
  With her son from far away
  Oh, Captain dear, where have you been
  Have you been out sailing on the Mediterranean
  Have you news of my son Ted
  Is he living or is he dead?
  With your too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, with your too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  Now then came Ted without any legs
  And in their place, two wooden pegs
  She kissed him a dozen times or two
  And said, My God, Ted, is it you?
  Now were you drunk or were you blind
  When you left your two fine legs behind?
  Or was it walking upon the sea
  That bore your two fine legs away?
  With a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, with a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  With a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, with a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  No, I wasnt drunk and I wasnt blind
  When I left my two fine legs behind
  A cannonball on the fifth of May
  Tore my two fine legs away
  Ah, Teddy, boy, the widow cried
  Your two fine legs were your mothers pride
  Them stumps of a tree wont do at all
  Why didnt you run from the cannonball?
  With a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, with a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  With a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, with a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  Well, foreign wars, I do proclaim
  Live on only blood and a mothers pain
  Id rather have my son as he used to be
  Then the King of America and his whole Navy
  With a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, with a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  With a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, with a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  With a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-di-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa, with a too-ri-aa, fol-did-dle-aa, too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa