I held a lady, oh laddie-daddie I held a lovely brown-haired girl I held a lady, oh laddie-daddie I held a lovely brown-haired girl I know that she was warm For I held her and touched her I held her so long, it was lovely Holding her against my body I see her laughing, I see her smiling I feel her arms around me From morning, when sun is shining, till evening Even when night is falling down All down the calling way Calling you, young lady For you, brown-haired, oh laddie-daddie Diddley-eye dadden-adda, lady Oh, I remember, how I remember Old days, when I was young days When I held a lady, oh laddie-daddie I held a lovely brown-haired girl Old days are dead-and-gone days Alive in the morning Alive in the sun, laddie-daddie Diddley-eye adden-daddle, lady [Instrumental] Red lips that love at my lips, a heart and Thigh, hips and legs and eyes, slips Away in the dawning day, laddie-awning I looks along the old road That old Sally Noggin Bog road Where I held a lady Where I held a lovely, adden-dadden Diddley-eye dadden-addle, lady Oh, I remember, how I remember Old days, when I was young days When I held a lady, oh laddie-daddie I held a lovely brown-haired girl Old days are dead-and-gone days Alive in the morning Alive in the sun, laddie-daddie Diddley-eye adden-daddle, lady