text: Mrs. McGrath, the sergeant said
  Would you like a soldier of your son Ted?
  With a scarlet coat and a big cocked hat
  Mrs. McGrath would 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
  Now 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
  O captain dear, where have ya been?
  You been sailing 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 a too-ri-aa fol-did-dle-di-aa too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  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 ya drunk or were ya blind
  When ya left your two fine legs behind?
  Or was it walking upon the sea
  That wore your two fine legs away?
  With a too-ri-aa fol-ded-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-ded-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
  Now 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
  My, Teddy boy, the widow cried
  Your two fine legs were yer mothers pride
  Stumps of a tree wont do at all
  Why didnt ya run from the cannonball?
  With a too-ri-aa fol-ded-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-ded-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
  All foreign wars I do proclaim
  Live on blood and a mothers pain
  Id rather have my son as he used to be
  Than the King of America and his whole Navy
  With a too-ri-aa fol-ded-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-ded-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-ded-dle-di-aa too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa
  A too-ri-aa fol-did-dle-di-aa too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa