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Help me folky ones, you're my only hope

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iklboo · 28/03/2018 22:41

DH has heard a modern folk song he loves. It's about a younger woman marrying a much older man. There's some lyrics like (and I can't rely on this):

You can't get the diddly doh up (or something) - alluding to sexual malfunction.

He's says it sounds like Kate Rusby but he's not totally sure.

TIA

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concretesieve · 28/03/2018 22:56

An old man came courting me,
Hey, ding a dorum dah!

An old man came courting me,
Me being young!

An old man came courting me,
All for his wife to be.

Maids, when you're young.
Never wed an old man!

He's got no faloreeum,
Lost his dingdoreeum!

Got no faloreeum,
Hey, diddle day!

Got no dingdoreeum,
Lost his faloreeum.

Maids, when you're young,
Never wed an old man!

I think it's quite old, though.

iklboo · 29/03/2018 11:19

Thank you @concretesieve! You're a genius. He heard the Lucy Ward version apparently. Now he's a happy DH.

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