--from Wehman Bros.' Pocket-Size Irish Song Book, No. 2 (New York: Wehman Bros., 1909).

DICK DARLIN', THE COBBLER.

Och! my name is Dick Darlin' the cobbler.
My time I served down there in Kent.
Wid de wimmin I was always a squabble,
But now I'm resolved to repent.

For twenty years I'd been a rover,
An' wasted the prime of my life.
One day, I resolved to give over
An' settle myself down to a wife.

My wife she was blinkin' an' blearin'.
My wife she was humpy and black,
The worst all over for swearin',
And her tongue is kept goin' click clack.

But now we are parted for iver.
One mornin' before it was light,
I shov'd the old jade in a river,
And cautiously bid her good-night.

My troubles of wedlock bein' over,
This country I thought I would try.
Once more I've become a free rover.
An' single I'll stop till I die.