Westmeath Bachelor Songtext
von Foster & Allen

I am the Westmeath Bachelor I′m the age of 63
I don't intend to marry or to raise a family
I′m happy and contented just to live a single life
And that's the reason why I don't intend to take a wife

With the red stuff on her fingernails and the varnish on her toes
Raddle on her old fizzhog and the whitewash on her nose
She can get a fancy barber to shave her neck and head
And that′s why I′m a Bachelor and I don't intend to wed

Last Thursday at the market in the town of Mullingar
A friend he introduced me to a famous Movie Star
She was married several times before to men of every breed
And she thought she had her supper with the Bachelor from Westmeath


With the red stuff on her fingernails and the varnish on her toes
Raddle on her old fizzhog and the whitewash on her nose
She can get a fancy barber to shave her neck and head
And that′s why I'm a Bachelor and I don′t intend to wed

I'm living with me Brother and his little cat and dog
I′m earning seventy pounds a-week by working on the bog
Why should I change this life of ease to one of struggle and strife
And that's another reason why I never took a wife

With the red stuff on her fingernails and the varnish on her toes
Raddle on her old fizzhog and the whitewash on her nose
She can get a fancy barber to shave her neck and head
And that's why I′m a Bachelor and I don′t intend to wed
And that's why I′m a Bachelor and I don't intend to wed

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