| Now, Mrs. McGrath, the sargent said | 
| Would you like to make a soldier out of your son Ted? | 
| With a scarlet coat and a big cocked hat | 
| Mrs. McGrath, wouldn’t you like that? | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Now, Mrs McGrath lived on the shore | 
| And after seven years or more | 
| She spied a ship come into the bay | 
| With her son from far away | 
| «O captain dear, where have ye been? | 
| You been sailing the Mediterranean | 
| Have you news of my son Ted | 
| Is he living or is he dead?» | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Then came Ted without any legs | 
| And in their place two wooden pegs | 
| She kissed him a dozen times or two | 
| And said, «my God, Ted, is it you? | 
| Now were ye drunk or were ye blind | 
| When ye left your two fine legs behind? | 
| Or was it walking upon the sea | 
| That wore your two fine legs away?" | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| «Now I wasn’t drunk and I wasn’t blind | 
| When I left my two fine legs behind | 
| A cannonball on the fifth of May | 
| Tore my two fine legs away» | 
| «My, Teddy boy,» the widow cried | 
| «Your two fine legs were yer mother’s pride | 
| Stumps of a tree won’t do at all | 
| Why didn’t ye run from the cannonball?» | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| «All foreign wars I do proclaim | 
| Between Don John and the King of Spain | 
| I’d rather have my son as he used to be | 
| Than the King of France and his whole Navy» | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa | 
| Too-ri-aa fol-ded-dle-di-aa | 
| Too-ri-oo-ri-oo-ri-aa |