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 brought 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
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
She was Nancy Mulligan, and I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Well I met at her Guys in the second world war
She was working on a soldier's ward
Never had I seen such beauty before
And we got married wearing borrowed clothes
We got eight children now growing old
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
She was Nancy Mulligan, and I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
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
From a farm boy born near Belfast town
I never worried about the king and crown
Cause I found my heart upon the southern ground
There's no difference, I assure ya
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
She was Nancy Mulligan, and I was William Sheeran