[Verse]

I'm always drunk and I'm seldom sober

I'm constantly rovin'

From town to town

Oh but I'm old now

My sportings over

So Molly, [?], won't you lay me down



[Chorus]

Just lay my head on a keg of brandy

It is my fancy I do declare

For while 'm drinking, I'm seldom thinking

On a lovely Molly

From the county Claire



[Verse]

For the ripest apple is the soonest rotten

And the warmest love

Is the soonest cold

And a young man's fancies

Are soon forgotten

So beware young maids and don't make so bold



[Chorus]

Just lay my head on a keg of brandy

It is my fancy I do declare

For while 'm drinking, I'm seldom thinking

On a lovely Molly

From the county Claire



[Verse]

It's youth and folly makes young men marry

And makes them tarry

A long, long

What can't be cured, love

Must be endured, love

So farewell, darling, I'm going away



[Chorus]

Just lay my head on a keg of brandy

It is my fancy I do declare

For while I'm drinking, I'm always thinking

On a lovely Molly

From the county Claire