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Nancy Mulligan by Ed Sheeran

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 (1)__________ marry the woman I love
Down by the Wexford border
She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border

Well, I met her at Guy's in the second world war
And she was working on a soldier's ward
Never had I seen such (2)____________ before
The moment that I saw her
Nancy was my yellow rose
And we got married wearing (3)________________ clothes
We got eight children now (4)______________ old
Five sons and three daughters

She and I went on the run
Don't (5)________ about religion
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
Down by the Wexford border
She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border

From her snow white streak in her jet black hair
Over sixty (6)__________ I've been loving her
Now we're sat by the fire, in our old armchairs
You (7)________ Nancy I (8)__________ ya

From a farm boy born near Belfast town
I never (9)______________ about the king and crown
Cause I found my heart upon the southern ground
There's no difference, I assure ya

She and I (10)________ 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
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border
Answers:
(1) gonna(2) beauty(3) borrowed(4) growing(5) care(6) years(7) know(8) adore(9) worried(10) went