Ed Sheeran – Nancy Mulligan Lyrics

Nancy Mulligan

Ed Sheeran

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"Nancy Mulligan." - Ed Sheeran

Friday, 23 October 2026, 03:31 am

Album: ÷ (Deluxe)

Track No: 15

I was twenty-four years old
When I met the woman I would call my own
Twenty-two grand kids, now growing old
In the house that your brother bought ya
On 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 'bout religion
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
Down by the Wexford border
She was Nancy Mulligan
I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border
Well, I 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 'bout religion
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
Down by the Wexford border
She was Nancy Mulligan
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 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 worry 'bout the king and crown
'Cause I found my heart upon the southern ground
There's no difference, I assure ya
She and I went on the run
Don't care 'bout religion
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
Down by the Wexford border
She was Nancy Mulligan
I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border

Writer(s): Amy Wadge, Benjamin Levin, Ed Sheeran, Foy Vance, Johnny McDaid & Murray Cummings.

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