Free and Easy - Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

Well, the first of me rambles I now will sing

Like any small bird or thrush on the wing

When the sun arose for to bless the land

Well, I was free and easy for to jog along

Well, the first place I rambled was to Derry Quay

Just a few miles distant of Ballybofey

They sat me down for to sing a song

For I was free and easy for to jog along

Well, the next place I rambled was to Glasgow green

Where lads and lassies were to be seen

But I was the blithest of all the throng

For I was free and easy for to jog along

Well, I had not gone but a very short space

When a nice, wee girl, she smiled in my face

She asked of me, am I a married man

No, I’m free and easy for to jog along

Well, I took this wee girl into an inn

There we drank brandy, strong ale and gin

She asked of me, would I give heart and hand

And give o’er free and easy for to jog along

Oh no, fair maiden, such things can’t be

For I am bound for to cross the sea

When a man gets married, his race is run

He’s no more free and easy for to jog along

Look at yonder stream, how it gently glides

It can go no further than it’s allowed

It can go no further that it gets command

But me, I’m free and easy for to jog along