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 BE A GOOD BOY AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF

When I was at home with my father and mother, I bate the ould couple, and Thady my brother,

At learning I mean, for I handled my spade, And nately I followed the turf-cutting trade. But ould father Murphy, our parish director “ Arrah. Barney,’ says he “ you are a frolicsome elf, "But be a good boy, and take care of yourself. With your toorle lol, toorle lol toorle lol loe Toorle lol, toorle lol‘ toorle lol loo.

My Judy I lov’d and oft gave me a kiss, “ Fie Barney,” says she, but ne’er took it amiss.

One nigdt I took leave, says I “Judy I’m off’’ But-heard as I thought in the closet a cough, So I opened the door, and I star’d like a pig. There stood ould father Murphy, without hat or wig ;