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Dance To Your Daddy Lyrics

Dance To Your Daddy Lyrics

Come Here, My Little Jacky
Now I’ve Smoked My Backey
Let’s Have A Bit Crackey
Till The Boat Comes In

Dance To Thy Daddy, Sing To Thy Mammy,
Dance To Thy Daddy, To Thy Mammy Sing;
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy On A Little Dishy,
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy When The Boat Comes In.

Here’s Thy Mother Humming,
Like A Canny Woman;
Yonder Comes Thy Father,
Drunk – He Cannot Stand.

Dance To Thy Daddy, Sing To Thy Mammy,
Dance To Thy Daddy, To Thy Mammy Sing;
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy On A Little Dishy,
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy When The Boat Comes In.

Our Tommy’s Always Fuddling,
He’s So Fond Of Ale,
But He’s Kind To Me,
I Hope He’ll Never Fail.

Dance To Thy Daddy, Sing To Thy Mammy,
Dance To Thy Daddy, To Thy Mammy Sing;
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy On A Little Dishy,
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy When The Boat Comes In.

I Like A Drop Mysel’,
When I Can Get It Sly,
And Thou, My Bonny Bairn,
Will Lik’t As Well As I.

Dance To Thy Daddy, Sing To Thy Mammy,
Dance To Thy Daddy, To Thy Mammy Sing;
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy On A Little Dishy,
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy When The Boat Comes In.

May We Get A Drop,
Oft As We Stand In Need;
And Weel May The Keel Row
That Brings The Bairns Their Bread.

Dance To Thy Daddy, Sing To Thy Mammy,
Dance To Thy Daddy, To Thy Mammy Sing;
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy On A Little Dishy,
Thou Shalt Have A Fishy When The Boat Comes In.

Song details & credits

SongDance To Your Daddy
MusicTraditional
LanguageEnglish