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PADDY’S RAMBLES FROM DUBLIN

TO LONDON

FROM Dublin to London I came,

and that, by my soul, was a blunder,

I heard such account of its name,

I thought I would see a great wonder;

I star’d, as I hope to be sav’d,

when I heard them like Irishmen talking;

Like Dub in the streets were all pav’d,

and the seamen and women were walking.

Fal de dal, &c.

They seem’d to be making great fun,

when I quickly did ask information;

They all aloud as I run,

and they swore that my brogue told my nation,

For Ireland say I, with a bull,

bad luck to the day I did leave it,

For brogue sure I have none at all,

if I had I never it.

Fal de dal, &c.

Aloud they all shouted a bull,

and they did none of them doubt me;

I found I should have my hands full,

I prepared to lay finely about me,