[00:09.12] I was twenty-four years old [00:11.33] When I met the woman I would call my own [00:13.71] Twenty-two grand kids now growing old [00:15.94] In that house that your brother bought ya [00:19.44] [00:22.98] On the summer day when I proposed [00:25.30] I made that wedding ring from dentist gold [00:27.78] And I asked her father, but her daddy said, no [00:30.38] You can't marry my daughter [00:32.55] She and I went on the run [00:34.94] Don't care about religion [00:37.29] I'm gonna marry the woman I love [00:39.54] Down by the Wexford border [00:42.11] She was Nancy Mulligan [00:44.39] And I was William Sheeran [00:46.65] She took my name and then we were one [00:49.12] Down by the Wexford border [00:52.59] [01:00.72] Well, I met her at Guy's in the second world war [01:03.14] And she was working on a soldier's ward [01:05.58] Never had I seen such beauty before [01:07.94] The moment that I saw her [01:10.38] Nancy was my yellow rose [01:12.54] And we got married wearing borrowed clothes [01:14.84] We got eight children now growing old [01:17.49] Five sons and three daughters [01:19.89] She and I went on the run [01:22.05] Don't care about religion [01:24.24] I'm gonna marry the woman I love [01:26.61] Down by the Wexford border [01:29.13] She was Nancy Mulligan [01:31.46] And I was William Sheeran [01:33.75] She took my name and then we were one [01:36.05] Down by the Wexford border [01:39.55] [01:57.20] From the snow white streak in her jet black hair [01:59.76] Over sixty years I've been loving her [02:01.90] Now we're sat by the fire in our old armchairs [02:04.49] You know Nancy, I adore ya [02:06.76] From a farm boy born near Belfast town [02:08.98] I never worried about the king and crown [02:11.37] 'Cause I found my heart upon the southern ground [02:13.72] There's no difference, I assure ya [02:16.12] She and I went on the run [02:18.57] Don't care about religion [02:20.86] I'm gonna marry the woman I love [02:23.14] Down by the Wexford border [02:25.56] She was Nancy Mulligan [02:28.01] And I was William Sheeran [02:30.27] She took my name and then we were one [02:32.68] Down by the Wexford border [02:34.03]