| There’s a neat little lass and her name is Mary Mack
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| make no mistake, she’s the girl I’m gonna track
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| a lot of other falla’s tryin’to get her on her back
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| but I think they’ll have to get up early
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| Mary Mack’s mother’s making Mary Mack marry me my mother’s making me marry Mary Mack
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| Well, I'm gonna marry Mary so my Mary’s taking care of me we’ll all be feeling merry when I marry Mary Mack
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| Now Mary and her mother gang an awful lot together
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| in fact you hardly see the one without the other
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| people often wonder is it Mary or her mother
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| or both of them together I am courtin'
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| Well, up among the heather in the hills of Benafy
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| Well, I had a bonnie lass, merry me !
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| a bumble bee stung me right above the knee
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| up among the heather in the hills of Benafy
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| Well, I saw a bonnie lassie
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| will you go and spend a day
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| sittin’in the heather in the hills of Bonafy
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| Where all the boys and girls are making out for free
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| up among the heather in the hills of Benafy
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| Now, the wedding’s on a wednesday and everything’s arranged
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| her name will soon be changed to mine unless her mind be changed
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| I’m making the arrangement, I’m feeling 'bout deranged
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| marriage is an awful undertaking
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| Sure to be granting it’s a grand affair
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| goin to be a forthnight if everyone is there
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| And I’ll be a buggar if I don’d give a share
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| If I don’t be very much mistaken
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| There’s a nice wee lass and her name is Mary Mack
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| make no mistake, she’s the girl I’m gonna take
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| And a lot of other fella’s tryin’to get her on her back
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| but I think they’ll have to get up early |