I held a lady, o laddy daddy
I held a lovely brown haired girl
I held a lady o laddy daddy
I held a lovely brown haired girl
I know that she was warm
'Cause I held her and touched her
I held her so long, it was lovely
Holding her against my body

I hear her laughing, I see her smiling
I feel her arm around me
From morning, the sun is shining
Till evening, even when night is falling down
All down the calling way
Calling you young lady
Are you brown haired, o laddy daddy
Diddley-I-da-the-daddle-lady

Now I remember, how I remember
Old days when I was young days
When I held a lady, o laddy daddy
I held a lovely brown haired girl
Old days are dead and gone days
Alive in the morning
Alive in the sun, laddy daddy
Diddley-I-da-the-daddle-lady

Red lips that love at my lips
A heart and thigh, hips and legs and
I slips away from the dawning day
Laddy yawning, I looks along an old road
An old sally noggin bog road
Where I held a lady
Where I held a lovely, dil daddle
Diddley-I-da-the-daddle-lady