While goin' to the fair at Dingle
One fine morning last July
When going down the road before me,
A red haired girl I chanced to spy.

I went up to her, said I, "Young lady,
My donkey, he will carry two."
Well seein' as how you have the donkey,
To the Dingle fair I'll ride with you."

Now when we reached the fair at Dingle,
I took her hand to say good-bye,
When a tinker man stepped up beside me,
And he belted me in my left eye!

Chorus:
"Keep your hands off red-haired Mary,
Her and I are will soon be wed.
We'll see the priest this very morning,
Tonight we'll lie in a married bed."

Now I was feeling rather peevish,
And my poor old eye was sad and sore,
So I tapped him lightly with me hobnails,
And he flew back through Murphy's door!

Then a policeman, he came round the corner,
And he told me I had broke the law,
Then me donkey kicked him in the ankle,
And he fell down and broke his jaw!

Now he galloped off to find his father;
The tallest man I e'er did meet.
He 'gently' tapped me with his knuckles,
And now I'm missing two front teeth.

Now this red haired girl, she kept on smiling.
She said, "Young man, I'll go with you
forget the priest this very morning,
tonight we'll lie in Murphy's shed!

Through the Dingle Fair we rode together,
My black eye and her red hair.
Smilin' gaily at the tinkers,
By God we were a handsome pair

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