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Thread #120626 Message #2625276
Posted By: MartinRyan
06-May-09 - 05:26 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Down by the Liffey side
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down by the Liffey side
Frank Harte, in the first edition of his "Songs of Dublin" has the following as the (crucial) second verse of five:
And up to Rabbioti's together we did go And the rapture there that filled our hearts, no poet e'er could know We started eating one and ones and Mary softly sighed "Oh I'd live for ever eating chips down by the Liffey side"
He also, BTW, has some minor differences in the George's Street verse.
I'd be loath to blame the Dubliners for your extra verse - I think they'd have made it scan!