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The Ballad of Persse OReilly

Have you heard of one Humpty

How he fell with a roll and a

And curled up like Lord Olofa

By the butt of the Magazine Wall,  (Chorus) Of the Magazine Wall,           Hump, helmet and all?

He was one time our King of the

Now he's kicked about like a rotten old parsnip.

And from Green street he'll be sent by order of His

To the penal jail of Mountjoy  (Chorus) To the jail of Mountjoy!           Jail him and joy.

He was fafafather of all schemes for to bother

Slow coaches and immaculate contraceptives for the populace,

Mare's milk for the sick, seven dry Sundays a week,

Openair love and religion's reform,  (Chorus) And religious reform,           Hideous in form.

Arrah, why, says you, couldn't he manage it?

I'll go bail, my fine dairyman darling,

Like the bumping bull of the

All your butter is in your horns.  (Chorus) His butter is in his horns.           Butter his horns!(Repeat) Hurrah there,

Hosty, frosty Hosty, change that shirt   on ye,

Rhyme the rann, the king of all ranns!

Balbaccio, balbuccio!

We had chaw chaw chops, chairs, chewing gum, the chicken-pox   and china

Universally provided by this soffsoaping salesman.

Small wonder He'll Cheat E'erawan our local lads nicknamed him.

When Chimpden first took the floor  (Chorus) With his bucketshop store           Down Bargainweg,

Lower.

So snug he was in his hotel premises

But soon we'll bonfire all his trash, tricks and

And 'tis short till sheriff Clancy'll be winding up his unlimited

With the bailiff's bom at the door,  (Chorus) Bimbam at the door.           Then he'll bum no more.

Sweet bad luck on the waves washed to our

The hooker of that hammerfast

And Gall's curse on the day when Eblana

Saw his black and tan man-o'-war.  (Chorus) Saw his man-o'-war           On the harbour bar.

Where from? roars Poolbeg.

Cookingha'pence, he bawls   Donnez-moi scampitle, wick an

Fingal Mac Oscar Onesine Bargearse

Thok's min gammelhole Norveegickers

Og as ay are at gammelhore Norveegickers cod.  (Chorus) A Norwegian camel old cod.           He is, begod.

Lift it,

Hosty, lift it, ye devil, ye! up with the rann,   the rhyming rann!

It was during some fresh water garden

Or, according to the Nursing Mirror, while admiring the

That our heavyweight heathen

Made bold a maid to woo  (Chorus) Woohoo, what'll she doo!           The general lost her maidenloo!

He ought to blush for himself, the old hayheaded philosopher,

For to go and shove himself that way on top of her.

Begob, he's the crux of the

Of our antediluvial zoo,  (Chorus) Messrs Billing and Coo.           Noah's larks, good as noo.

He was joulting by Wellinton's

Our rotorious

When some bugger let down the backtrap of the

And he caught his death of fusiliers,  (Chorus) With his rent in his rears.           Give him six years.'Tis sore pity for his innocent poor

But look out for his missus legitimate!

When that frew gets a grip of old

Won't there be earwigs on the green?  (Chorus) Big earwigs on the green,           The largest ever you seen.   Suffoclose!

Shikespower!

Seudodanto!

Anonymoses!

Then we'll have a free trade Gael's band and mass

For to sod him the brave son of Scandiknavery.

And we'll bury him down in

Along with the devil and the Danes,  (Chorus) With the deaf and dumb Danes,           And all their remains.

And not all the king's men nor his

Will resurrect his

For there's no true spell in Connacht or hell  (bis) That's able to raise a Cain.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic…

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