The Finding of Moses - The Wolfe Tones

On Egypt’s land, contagious to the Nile

Auld Pharaoh’s daughter, she went to bathe in style

She took her dip and come unto the land

And for to dry her royal pelt she ran along the strand

And a bulrush tripped her whereupon she saw

A lovely smiling babby all in a wad of straw

She took the babby up and says she in accents mild

«Oh tar-an-a-gers, girls now, which one of yis owns the child?»

And then little Moses, he gave a little grin

For she and the Pharaoh were standing in their skin

«Begobben» says the Pharaoh, «it was somebody very rude

That left a little baby in the river in his nude.»

She took him to her ol' lad sitting on the throne

«Oh da,» says she, «Would you give the boy a home?»

«Begobben,» says the Pharaoh, «I've often took in worse

Go nip down to the market square and get the child a nurse.»

When she went to the market square, now

The only one she’d find

Now was the little young one that left the child behind

And she was letting on to be a stranger, mareyah

And never letting on that she was the babby’s ma

And so little Moses, he got his mammy back

Such a co-in-ci-dence, though, is a nut to crack