[Spoken Intro]

It's about a desperate man who had a big fat daughter and he wanted her at any cost to get married off to somebody. And the man who owned the daughter — as we'll say — he was going to give ten golden sovereigns, and a fine-legged stool, and a big feather bed. 

[Verse 1]

There's a man by the name of Mike Hogan, he's plaguing me out of me life

He has a fine daughter named Bridget, and he wants mе to make her me wifе

She stands six-foot-four in her stockings, her waist would mine equal three

And whenever I try for to kiss her, sure my elbows reach just to her knees

[Verse 2]

"Patsy McCann will you marry me daughter, oh, Patsy McCann if the girl you'll wed

Ten golden sovereigns down I will give you, a three-legged stool, and a fine feather bed

Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Saint Patrick are the picture that hangs on the wall

I will throw them all in to the bargain if you'll marry me daughter at all."

[Verse 3]

So I married this old Bridget Hogan and she's mine now for better or worse

But the blessings that she should have brought me soon turned into a curse

She bites me, she kicks me, she flays me, and she ties me lest I'd run away

But this six-foot-four beauty's a caution, and her father was worse for to say

[Verse 4]

"Oh, Patsy McCann will you marry me daughter, oh, Patsy McCann if the girl you'll wed

Ten golden sovereigns down I will give you, a three-legged stool, and a fine feather bed

Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Saint Patrick are the picture that hangs on the wall

I will throw them all in to the bargain if you'll marry me daughter at all"