Songbook/Spanish Lady

=Spanish Lady=

The 4th verse of the original lyrics of this old folk song refers to historical places and figures who lived at the end of the 18th century and were part of the first revolutionary movement in Irish history.


 * Guitar chords


 * Ukulele (gcea)

The Spanish Lady
As I came down through Dublin City at the hour of twelve at night Who should I see but a Spanish lady washing her feet by candle light First she washed them, then she dried them over a fire of amber coal In all my life I never did see a maid so sweet a-bout the sole
 * 1st


 * Chorus
 * Whack for the toora loora laddy, whack for the toora loora lay
 * Whack for the toora loora laddy, whack for the toora loora lay

As I came back through Dublin city at the hour of half past eight Who should I spy but the Spanish lady brushing her hair in broad daylight First she tossed it, then she brushed it on her lap was a silver comb In all my life I never did see a maid so fair since I did roam
 * 2nd

As I went back through Dublin city as the sun be-gan to set Who should I spy but the Spanish lady catching a moth in a golden net When she saw me then she fled me lifting her petticoat over her knee In all my life I never did see a maid so shy as theSpanish lady
 * 3rd

I’ve wandered north and I’ve wandered south through Stonybatter andPatrick’s Close Up and around the Glouster diamond and back by Napper Tandy’s house Old age has her hand laid on me, cold as a fire of ashy coals But in all my life I never did see a maid so sweet as the Spanish lady
 * 4th

Since the places in the fourth verse are not so well known outside Ireland, and the text is not easy to interpret (does an old man remember a pretty Spanish woman, did he marry her, or have his once hot embers died out in the meantime?