Wth?! This isn't the lyrics to the (Clancy Brothers) song! For one thing the stanzas are mixed up. For another the person who "says" is not "the old man" (or even "wan" >:)) but "the mother". And I'm not even sure "Bleachner" is a word (it's surely not what is being sung).
[This being a folk song, I'm sure these are the lyrics to some rendition, just not the Clancy Brothers one).