[Verse] Oh I am a Westmeath bachelor and my age is sixty-three I don’t intend to marry or to raise a family. I’m happy and contented just to lead a single life And that’s the reason why I don’t intend to take a wife. [Chorus] With the red stuff on her finger-nails and varnish on her toes The red around her auld visage and the whitewash on her nose She can get a fancy barber to shave her neck and head   And that’s why I’m a bachelor and I don’t intend to wed. [Verse] Last Thursday at the market in the town of Mullingar. A friend he introduced me to a famous movie star. She’d was married several times before to men of every creed And she thought she had found a sucker in the bachelor from Westmeath. [Chorus] With the red stuff on her fingernails and the varnish on her toes The red around her auld visage and the whitewash on her nose She can get a fancy barber to shave her neck and head   Sure that’s why I’m a bachelor and don’t intend to wed. [Verse] Now I’m living with me brother and his little cat and dog I’m earning seven and six a week a-working on the bog Why should I change this life of ease for one of struggle and strife And that’s the reason why I never took a wife. [Chorus] With the red stuff on her fingernails and the varnish on her toes The red around her auld visage and the whitewash on her nose She can get a fancy barber to shave her neck and head   Sure that’s why I’m a bachelor and don’t intend to wed. Sung by Joe DOLAN in the 1960’s/ 1970’s (by Bill Whelan Castletown-Geoghegan song writer)