High Upon the Mountain
(Learned directly and indirectly from the singing of Jem Kelly, a great character from Dun Laoghaire direction)

I'll sing you a song in a comical style,
If it doesn't make you laugh, it will surely make you smile,
It's all about a wedding, a comical affair,
And me being the bridegroom, I happened to be there.

    (Chorus)
High upon the mountain, that's the place to be,
Listening to the jackdaw singing in the tree,
And as long as I remember, sure I never will forget,
To put up my umbrella when it comes on wet

My wife's mother, that's my mother in law,
Started and she gave me a load of her oul' jaw,
Now only she's a woman, if she had a been a man,
I'd a kicked her in the ankles like an oul 'tin can

Little Jimmy Moylan, he got up to sing,
And five minutes later his nose was in a sling,
Nobody hit him, or said he was a mug,
But someone cracked his kisser with a big enamel jug.

My Aunt Ellen got as drunk as an egg,
She fell down in the corner and she broke her wooden leg,
She called for a physician, hold your whisht says Mrs Grant,
Don't be callin' for a doctor, it's a carpenter you want

The tailor he got needled, and he began to glare,
He said he'd put his fist through the biggest **cker there,
Up says Jimmy Moylan, says you're nothing but a welt,
If there's a **cker in the company its no-one but yourself

High upon the mountain, that's the place to be,
Listening to the jackdaw singing in the tree,
And as long as I remember, sure I never will forget,
To put up my umbrella when it comes on wet
High upon the mountain, that's the place to be,
Listening to the jackdaw singing in the tree,
And always will remember all the days of my life,
The night that I got married to another man's wife.

These are all the verses I can remember. If any one has others I'd love to hear them.