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 waxford border
She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the waxford border

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 waxford border
She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the waxford border

From her snow white streak in her jet black hair
Over sixty 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 waxford border
She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the waxford border

Preklad:

Mal som 24,
keď som stretol ženu, ktorú by som nazval mojou.
Dvadsaťdva vnúčat, ktoré rastú
v tom dome, ktorý ti kúpil tvoj brat.
V ten letný deň, keď som ju požiadal o ruku,
vyrobil som snubný prsteň zo zubárskeho zlata,
a požiadal som o ruku jej otca, ale on povedal: "Nie, ty si nemôžeš vziať moju dcéru".

Ona a ja sme utiekli.
Nerobili sme si starosti s obradom.
Vezmem si ženu, ktorú milujem
na wexfordskej hranici.
Ona bola Nancy Mulligan,
a ja som bol William Sheeran.
Vzala si ma, a potom sme boli ako jeden.
Na wexfordskej hranici.

Stretol som ju v Guy's počas druhej svetovej vojny,
a ona pracovala v ošetrovni pre vojakov.
Nikdy predtým som nevidel toľko krásy,
ako vtedy, keď som uvidel ju.
Nancy bola moja žltá ruža.
Vzali sme sa v požičanom oblečení.
Mali sme osem detí, ktoré teraz rastú,
päť synov a tri dcéry.

Ona a ja sme utiekli.
Nerobili sme si starosti s obradom.
Vezmem si ženu, ktorú milujem,
na wexfordskej hranici.
Ona bola Nancy Mulligan,
a ja som bol William Sheeran.
Vzala si ma, a potom sme boli ako jeden.
Na wexfordskej hranici.

Od snehobieleho pramienku v jej čiernych vlasoch,
cez šesťdesiat rokov ju milujem.
Teraz sme sa usadili k ohňu do našich starých kresiel,
vieš Nancy, ja ťa obdivujem.
Od farmárskeho chlapca, narodeného vedľa mesta Belfast,
nikdy nemal som strach z kráľa a koruny,
pretože som našiel svoje srdce na južnej zemi.
Nie je v tom žiadny rozdiel, uisťujem ťa.

Ona a ja sme utiekli.
Nerobili sme si starosti s obradom.
Vezmem si ženu, ktorú milujem,
na wexfordskej hranici.
Ona bola Nancy Mulligan,
a ja som bol William Sheeran.
Vzala si ma, a potom sme boli ako jeden.
Na wexfordskej hranici.