Aidan O'Hara, "I'll Live 'til I Die: The Delia Murphy Story" (Leitrim, 1997):

"[During WW2] Delia did two free concerts for Fr. Joe Flanagan in Woolwich, to help in raising funds for the church. While there, she sent a card to his mother in Co. Galway asking for the words of the song, 'The Wake in Kildare', also known as 'Coming Home from the Wake.' Delia recorded the song, and Fr. Joe’s brother, Ger, said ‘his mother would play the record but not when anyone was around because of the words, “And I slipped a kiss to Nellie coming home from the wake.” However his was the ‘sanitized’ version of the song. Delia’s unexpurgated version was not for ‘polite people’." . . .

"Delia also said she got a variant of the song, 'Coming home from the Wake,' or, 'The Wake in Kildare', from the Australian Prime Minister, Joseph Benedict (Ben) Chifley, whose people came from Ireland and who succeeded another Irish-Australian— John Curtin — as Prime Minister, in 1945."