Words and music Mick Ryan, Original song name “The Widow’s Promise” Performed by Marc Gunn From CD: Kilted For Her Pleasure Buy MP3: Amazon or iTunes High atop a lonely moor, a Widow lived alone. An Inn she kept, and as she slept, her pillow heard her moan: “Oh, many’s the lonely traveller has spent the night with me, but there’s no a man in all creation gives content to me! “Well, some can manage once or twice, and some make three or four; but it seems to me a rarity is the man who can do more. I’d do anything to find him, in Heaven or in Hell.” And as she spoke these words, sure, she heard her front door bell. And the wind blew cold and lonely across that Widow’s moor, and she never, ever turned away a traveller from the door. So boldly ran the Widow, and the door did open wide, and as she did, a tall and handsome stranger stepped inside. Well, she gave him bread and brandy, and when that he was fed, he said, “My dear, now have no fear; it’s time to come to bed. “For I’ve heard your plea right down below, and I’ve come to see you right. But you must come to Hell with me if I can last the night.” She said, “You randy Devil! To this bargain I’ll agree, for Hell on Earth, or Hell in Hell, it’s all the same to me!” Now, as they tumbled in the bed, the Devil, he proved well… and he thought before the night would end that she’d be in his Hell. Ah, but when they came to number nine, the Widow cried out, “More!” And when the twelfth time came around, the Widow cried, “Encore!” At twenty-five the Devil felt compelled to take a rest, but the Widow cried, “Come raise your head, and put me to the test!” At sixty-nine, the Widow laughed. “Again! Again!” she cried, and the Devil said, “Well, I can see just how your husband died!” At ninety-nine, the Devil he began to wail and weep. He said, “I’ll give you anything, if you’ll let me go to sleep!” But before the morning light was up, the Devil hobbled home, and the Widow, still not satisfied, once more was left alone. She lay there on her pillow and she thought on ninety-nine. “It’s a pity that poor old Devil couldn’t manage one more time! I’ll call him up again tonight to see what can be done – with a little more application, we could make it to the ton!” But when she called to him that night, no Devil did appear. For the first time in Eternity, the Devil, he shook with fear. He said, “Of all the torments I’ve witnessed here in Hell, I never knew what pain was, ’til I rang your front door bell!”
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