I was twenty four years old

When I met the woman I would call my own

Twenty two grand kids now growing old

In the house that your brother bought ya

On the summer day when I proposed

I made that wedding ring from dentist gold

And I asked her father but her daddy said no

You can't marry my daughter

She and I went on the run

Don't care about religion

I'm gonna marry the woman I love

Down by the Wexford border

She was Nancy Mulligan and I was William Sheeran