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She can dance to the flute, dance to the fiddle,
She's as neat around the waist as a cow around the middle;
Let 'er go, let 'er go, you'll find another,
There's a lot a pretty women at the head of Grand River.
Now the Widow Malone lived by the strand,
For forty years without a man;
She danced around and she waved her fan,
Set her eyes on me Uncle Dan.
She can dance to the flute, dance to the fiddle,
She's as neat around the waist as a cow around the middle;
Let 'er go, let 'er go, you'll find another,
There's a lot a pretty women at the head of Grand River.
Now he would not listen to my advice,
So he married her there on a wintry night;
She ate all the grub at the party fair,
Drank every man clean under his chair.
She can dance to the flute, dance to the fiddle,
She's as neat around the waist as a cow around the middle;
Let 'er go, let 'er go, you'll find another,
There's a lot a pretty women at the head of Grand River.
Now when he got home on his weddin' night,
Me Uncle Dan got a hell of a fright:
She hung her leg upon the wall,
Down on the floor her teeth did fall,
One glass eye, off came her hair,
And down the road me Uncle Dan did tear.
She can dance to the flute, dance to the fiddle,
She's as neat around the waist as a cow around the middle;
Let 'er go, let 'er go, you'll find another,
There's a lot a pretty women at the head of Grand River.
Now they claim he ran to France or Spain,
And he sent a letter home to her sayin':
"Darling, if you ever need another man,
You can count me out — Love, Uncle Dan."
She can dance to the flute, dance to the fiddle,
She's as neat around the waist as a cow around the middle;
Let 'er go, let 'er go, you'll find another,
There's a lot a pretty women at the head of Grand River.
She can dance to the flute, dance to the fiddle,
She's as neat around the waist as a cow around the middle;
Let 'er go, let 'er go, you'll find another,
There's a lot a pretty women at the head of Grand River.
Arranged and recorded by the Irish Descendants (Livin' On The Edge, 1996; So Far So Good: The Best Of The Irish Descendants, 1999).
