Nancy Mulligan by Ed Sheeran.

Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991)^[ is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk.Their parents, John and Imogen, are London-born. His paternal grandparents are Irish,^[ and Sheeran has stated his father hailed from a "very large" Catholic family.

John is an art curator and lecturer, and Imogen is a culture publicist turned jewellery designerHis parents ran Sheeran Lock, an independent art consultancy, from 1990 to 2010. Their work usually took them to London, and they spent their weekends travelling with their children, while playing music. Sheeran's early childhood memories include listening to the records of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. According to Sheeran, the album that first introduced him to music was Van Morrison's Irish Heartbeat. During his childhood, John took him to a number of live concerts that would later inspire his musical creations. These included seeing Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall, Paul McCartney in Birmingham, and Bob Dylan.

Sheeran sang in a local church choir from the age of four, learned to play the guitar at a very young age... 

What influence can you find in this song?

Most of the blanks are verbs. Can you get them all?

Lyrics

I .......... twenty-four years old
When I ............ the woman I would call my own
Twenty-two grand kids now .................... old
In that house that your brother bought 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
You can't .............. my daughter"

She and I went on the run
Don't care about religion
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
Down by the Wexford ..................

She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She took my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border

Well, met her at Guy's in the second world war
And she .......  ..................... on a soldier's ward
Never had I seen such beauty before
The moment that I .......... her

Nancy was my yellow rose
And we got married wearing borrowed clothes
We got eight children now growing old
Five sons and three daughters

She and I went on the run
Don't care about religion
I'm gonna ................. the woman I love
Down by the Wexford border

She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She .................. my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border

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
You know Nancy, I adore ya

From a farm boy born near Belfast town
I never worried about the king and crown
'Cause I ................. my heart upon the southern ground
There's no difference, I assure ya

She and I went on the run
Don't care about religion
I'm gonna ............... the woman I love
Down by the Wexford border

She was Nancy Mulligan
And I was William Sheeran
She .............. my name and then we were one
Down by the Wexford border

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