INTRO: Em
VERSE
EmGD
"Mrs McGrath," the sergeant said, "would you like a soldier of your son Ted?"
DEm
Scarlet coat, a big cocked hat, Mrs. McGrath would you like that?"
EmGD
Mrs. McGrath lived on the shore and after seven years or more
DEm
She spotted a ship come into the bay with her son from far away
CHORUS (2x)
EmGD
Too-rai-eh-ful-diddly-eh, too-rai-loo-rai-loo-rai-eh
DEm
Too- rai-eh-ful-diddly-eh, too-rai-loo-rai-loo-rai-eh
EmGD
"Captain dear, where have you been, sailing the Mediterranean?
DEm
Have you news of my son Ted? Is he living or is he dead?"
EmGD
Then Teddy boy came out with no legs and in their place, two wooden pegs
DEm
She kissed him a dozen times or two and said, "My God Ted is it you?"
CHORUS (2x)
EmGD
Too-rai-eh-ful-diddly-eh, too-rai-loo-rai-loo-rai-eh
DEm
Too- rai-eh-ful-diddly-eh, too-rai-loo-rai-loo-rai-eh
INTERLUDE: Bm-D-A-Bm (2x) Em-G-D-Em (2x)
EmGD
"Were you drunk or were you blind, when you left your two fine legs behind?
DEm
Or was walking upon the sea that tore your two fine legs from thee?"
EmGD
"No I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind when I left my two fine legs behind.
DEm
A cannonball on the fifth of May tore my two fine legs away."
CHORUS (2x)
EmGD
Too-rai-eh-ful-diddly-eh, too-rai-loo-rai-loo-rai-eh
DEm
Too- rai-eh-ful-diddly-eh, too-rai-loo-rai-loo-rai-eh
G O: Em
EmGD
"Teddy boy," the widow cried, "your two fine legs were your mother's pride.
DEm
Stumps of a tree won't do at all, you should've run from the cannonball."
EmGD
"All foreign wars," I do proclaim, "live on blood and a mother's pain.
DEm
I'd rather my boy as he used to be then the king of the west and his navy."
CHORUS (2x)
EmGD
Too-rai-eh-ful-diddly-eh, too-rai-loo-rai-loo-rai-eh
DEm
Too- rai-eh-ful-diddly-eh, too-rai-loo-rai-loo-rai-eh