There was an old woman from Wexford
and in Wexford she did dwell
She loved her own man dearly
But another man twice as well
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One day she went to a doctor
Some medicine for to find
she says will you give me something
That'll make me ould man blind"
"Says he, give him eggs and marrow bones
And make him sup them all
And it won't be so very long after
That'll he won't see you at all"
Well the doctor wrote a letter
and he signed it with his hand
he sent it to the ould man
just to let him understand
Well she fed him eggs and marrow bones
And made him sup them all
And it wasn't so very long after
That he couldn't see the wall
says the ould man ill drown meself
But that might be a sin"
"Well," says she "I'll go along with you
And I'll help to push you in"
The old woman she stood back a bit
For to rush and push him in
The old man gently stood aside
And she went tumling in
Oh, how loudly she did yell
And how loudly she did bawl
"Arrah hould yer whisht ould woman," says he
"Sure I can't see you at all"
O eggs are eggs and marrow bones
Will make your old man blind
But if you want to drown him
You must creep up close behind