Me name is Mick Maguire and I'll quickly tell to you
Of a young girl I admired - she was Katie Donoghue
She's fair and fat and forty and believe me when I say
Everytime I go a-courting door you can hear her mother say
Johnny get up from the fire, get up and give your man a seat
Can't you see it's Mister Maguire and he's courtin' your sister Kate
You know very well he owns a farm a wee bit out of town
Get up out of that ya impudent brat and let Mister Maguire sit down
The first time that I met her was at a patron in Tralee
I very kindly asked her would she dance a step with me
She asked me for to leave her home and have with her some tay
No sooner we got in the the door you could hear her mother say
Johnny get up from the fire, get up and give your man a seat
Can't you see it's Mister Maguire and he's courtin' your sister Kate
You know very well he owns a farm a wee bit out of town
Will you get up out of that ya impudent brat and let Mister Maguire sit down
But now that we are married sure her mammy's changed her mind
Just because I spent the legacy me father left behind
Now she hasn't got the decency to bid me time of day
And whenever I'd come in the door you could hear her ould one say
Johnny come up to the fire, come up - you're sitting in the draught
Can't you see it's ould Maguire and he nearly drives me daft
I don't know what gets into him - he's always on the tear
Will you sit where you are and never you dare give ould Maguire the chair.
