I’m not Myself at all.
Oh! I’m not myself at all, Molly dear, Molly dear,
I’m not myself at all,
Nothing caring, nothing knowing, ’tis after you I’m going,
Faith your shadow ’tis I’m growing, Molly dear, Molly dear,
And I’m not myself at all.
Th’other day I went confessin’, and I ask’d the father’s blessin’
But says I, “Don’t give me one entirely,
For I fretted so last year,
But the half o’ me is here,
So give the other half to Molly Brierly
Oh! I’m not myself at all.”
Oh! I’m not myself at all, Molly dear, Molly dear,
My appetite’s so small,
I once could pick a goose, but my buttons are no use,
Faith my tightest coat is loose, Molly dear, Molly dear,
And I’m not myself at all.
If thus it is I waste, you’d better dear make haste
Before your lover’s gone away entirely,
If you don’t soon change your mind
Not a bit o’ me you’ll find,
And what ’ud you think ’o that Molly Brierly?
Oh! I’m not myself at all.
Oh! my shadow on the wall, Molly dear, Molly dear,
Isn’t like myself at all.
For I’ve got so very thin, myself says ’tisn’t him,
But that purty girl so slim, Molly dear, Molly dear,
And I’m not myself at all.
If thus I smaller grow, all fretting dear for you,
’Tis you should make me up the deficiency,
So just let Father Taaf
Make you my better half,
And you will not the worse for the addition be;
Oh! I’m not myself at all.
I’ll be not myself at all, Molly dear, Molly dear,
’Till you my own I call.
Since a change o’er me there came, shure you might change your name,
And ’twould just come to the same, Molly dear, Molly dear,
Oh! ’twould just come the same;
For if you and I were one, all confusion would be gone,
And ’twould simplify the mather entirely,
And ’twould save us so much bother
When we’d both be one another,
So listen now to rayson, Molly Brierly,
Oh! I’m not myself at all.