spanish lady

• (bkz: ispanyol kadinlari)
• 17. yüzyıldan kalma bir ingiliz şarkısı. bir ispanyol kadının bir ingiliz denizciye aşık olmasını anlatır. ancak kader ağlarını örer ve evli çocuklu olduğu anlaşılan denizci evine döner. şarkı birkaç farklı sözle söylenmiştir. irlanda versiyonu galway city olarak bilinir ve sözleri şöyledir:
  
  as i went out through dublin city
  at the hour of twelve o'clock at night
  who should i see but a spanish lady
  washing her feet by candle light
  first she washed them and then she dried them
  over a fire of ambry coals
  in all my life i never did see
  a maid so sweet about the soles
  
  i stopped to look but the watchman passed
  says he, "young fellow, the night is late
  along with you home or i will wrestle you
  straight away through the bridewell gate"
  i threw a look to the spanish lady
  hot as the fire of ambry coals
  in all my life i never did see
  a maid so sweet about the soles
  
  as i walked back through dublin city
  as the dawn of day was o'er
  who should i see but the spanish lady
  when i was weary and footsore
  she had a heart so filled with loving
  and her love she longed to share
  in all my life i never did see
  a maid who had so much to spare
  
  now she's no mot for a puddle swaddy
  with her ivory comb and her mantle so fine
  but she'd make a wife for the provost marshall
  drunk on brandy and claret wine
  i got a look from the spanish lady
  hot as a fire of ambry coals
  in all my life i never did meet
  a maid so sweet about the soles
  
  i've wandered north and i've wandered south
  by stoney batter and patrick's close
  up and around by the gloucester diamond
  and back by napper tandy's house
  old age has laid her hands upon me
  cold as a fire of ashy coals
  but where is the lonely spanish lady
  neat and sweet about the soles?
  
  as i was leaving dublin city
  on that morning sad of heart
  lonely was i for the spanish lady
  now that forever we must part
  but still i always will remember
  all the hours we did enjoy
  but then she left me sad at parting
  gone forever was my joy
  
  chorus:
  whack fol the toora, toora laddy
  whack fol the foora loora lay