Page 101
after the High Kings

    Step It Out Mary

    by Sean McCarthy
    x3

    Chorus I x2
    Step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
    Step it out, Mary, if you can
    Step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
    Show your legs to the countryman

    In the village of Kilgory, there's a maiden young and fair
    Her eyes shine like diamonds, she has long and golden hair
    The horseman, he comes riding, riding up to her father's gates
    On a pure-white stallion, and he comes at the strike of eight

    Chorus II x2
    Step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
    Step it out, Mary, if you can
    Step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
    Show your legs to the countryman

    I have come to court your daughter, Mary of the golden hair
    I have gold and I have silver, I have goods beyond compare
    I will buy her silks and satins and a gold ring for her hand
    She shall have a mansion, she'll have servants to command

    Chorus II

    "I don't want your gold and silver, I don't want your house and land
    I am in love with a soldier, I have promised him my hand"
    But the father spoke up sharply: "You will do as I command
    You'll get married on a Sunday and you'll wear that wedding band"

    Chorus II

    Bridge
    In the village of Kilgory there's a deep stream flowing by
    And on her wedding day at midnight she drowns with her soldier boy
    In the cottage there is music, you can hear her father say:
    "Oh step it out, Mary, (my fine) my fine daughter,
    Sunday is your wedding day" (last line x3)

    (Refrain x3 over )
    Step it out, step it out, step it out, step it out
    Step it out, step it out, step it out, step it out
    Step it out, step it out, step it out, step it out
    Step it out, Mary

    (Refrain x2 over )
    Step it out, Mary
    Step it out, Mary
    Step it out, Mary
    If you can

    Chorus II x2