Tommy Makem does a song called "The Liar" on his album "An Evening With Tommy Makem" (also released as "Listen the rafters are ringing"). Very similar to the lyrics for "Great Historical Bum" -- the lyrics could be interchanged, in fact:

I saw Delilah cutting Samson's hair
She snipped away until his head was bare
When he tried to run away,
She married him next day
And they opened up a barbershop in Clare.

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It was during World War Two I met them all
There was Roosevelt and Churchill and De Gaulle
And one day I nearly fainted
I was having my house painted
And there was Hitler hanging paper in the hall.

The Makem website (www.makem.com) doesn't post the lyrics to "The Liar" -- those two are from memory, and there are more. I'm at work right now and can't play the tape.

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Click for "The Liar"