Hey I was twenty four years old
When I met the woman I would call my own
Twenty two grand kids now growing old
In a house that your brother bought you
On the summer day when I proposed
I made that wedding ring from dentist gold
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
I was william sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the wexford border
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Well I met a red guys in the second world war
And she was working on a soldier's ward
Never had I seen such beauty before
The moment that I saw her nancy was my yellow rose
And we got married wearing borrowed clothes
Eight children now growing up
Five sons and three daughters
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
I was william sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the wexford border
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From a snow white streak and a jet black hair
Over sixty years I've been loving her
How we sat by the fire in our old armchairs
You know nancy I adore you
From a farm boy born near belfast town
I never worried about the king of the crown
Cause I found my heart upon the southern ground
There's no difference I assure you
Hey 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 I was william sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the wexford border
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