The Irish Rovers Brigid Flynn song lyrics

I've a nice little house and a cow or two with grass,

I've a plant garden running by the door;

I've a shelter for the hens and a stable for the ass,

And what does a man want more?

I don't know, maybe so,

And a bachelor is easy and free;

But I've got lots to look after, and I'm living all alone,

And there's no one looking after me.

Well now, me father often tells me I should go and have a try,

To get a girl that owns a bit of land;

And I know the way he says it that there's someone in his eye,

And me mother has the whole thing planned.

I don't know, maybe so,

It would mollify them greatly to agree;

But there's the little Brigid Flynn, and it's her I want to win,

Though she never throws an eye at me.

Aha, now there's a little girl and she's worth her weight in gold,

And that's a decent dowry, don't you see;

And I mean to go and ask her as soon as I get bold,

If she'll come and have an eye to me.

I don't know, will she go,

But I'd like to have her sitting on me knee;

And I'd sing like a thrush on a hawthorn bush,

If she'd come and have an eye to me.

I don't know, will she go,

But I'd like to have her sitting on me knee;

And I'd sing like a thrush on a hawthorn bush,

If she'd come and have an eye to me.