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Then you know when they came to chair him,

I was no longer, you ſee, an odd man, there

was a pair of chairmen.

And ſure ſuch a pair was ne'er ſeen by my foul,

As his honour and Paddy O Blarney.

But this notion of greatneſs was none of the worſt,

Oh! the world for the Lakes of Kilkarney,

Having play'd ad fiddle, I thought I'd play iſ't,

Can't ye let alone Paddy O Blarney;

So ſwearing to plunder and never to ſpeak,

I my qualifications took out and turn'd Greek.

Ah! to be ſure we did not make a pretty dove-

houſe of our Pharoah Bank; let me ſee, me

pidgeoned, ay fait, and plucked them completely too.

Four tradesmen & fix bankers' clerks in one week,

Will you let alone Paddy O Blarney.

A big man in all circles ſo gay and polite,

Ah ! the world for the Lakes of Kilkarney:

I found one larnt grown up Jolman to write,

Juſt to finiſh gay Paddy O Blarney;

I firſt learnt my name, till ſo fond of it grown,

I don't ſay I'd better have let it alone

But by my ſoul and conſcience, it had like to

have finiſhed me in good earneſt; for you ſee

I—juſt—wrote

Another Joleman's ſignature ſtead of my own,

What a devil of a Pady o Blarney.

But ſince fate didn't chuſe for to nooſe me that day,

Ah the world for the Lakes O Kilkarney,

With a Venus of ninety I next ran away,

What a fine daſhing Paddy O Blarney;