Nancy Mulligan Lyrics - 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 that house that your brother bought ya 

Oh 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 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 

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Well, met her at Guy's in the second world war 

And she was working on a soldier's ward 

Never had I seen such beauty before 

The moment that I saw her 

Nancy was my yellow rose 

And we got married wearing borrowed clothes 

We got eight children now growing old 

Five sons and three daughters 

She and I went 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 

From her snow white streak in her jet black hair 

Over sixteen years I've been loving her 

Now we're sat by the fire in our old armchairs 

You know Nancy, I adore ya 

From a farm boy born near Belfast town 

I never worried about the king and crown 

'Cause I found my heart upon the southern ground 

There's no difference, I ensure ya 

She and I went 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