Here is a compilation of the lyrics submitted above, plus some minor variations from the printed word.

DEAR OLD DONEGAL
(SHAKE HANDS WITH YOUR UNCLE MIKE)

Copyright 1942 - Steve Graham

It seems like only yesterday, I sailed from out of Cork.
A wanderer from Erin's isle, I landed in New York.
There wasn't a soul to greet me there, a stranger on the shore
But Irish luck was with me there, and riches came galore.

And, now, I'm going back again to dear old Erin's isle.
My friends will meet me on the pier and greet me with a smile.
Their faces, sure, I've almost forgot. I've been so long away
But my mother will introduce them all and this to me will say:

CHORUS
"Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy, And here is your sister Kate
And there's the girl you used to swing Down by the garden gate.
Shake hands with all of the neighbors, And kiss the colleens all.
You're as welcome as the flowers in May To dear old Donegal."

They'll give the party when I go home. They'll come from near and far.
They'll line the road for miles and miles with Irish jaunting cars.
The spirits will flow and we'll be gay (the spirits'll flow like buttermilk), we'll fill our hearts with joy.
The piper will play an Irish reel to greet the Yankee boy.

The dancers will reel (we'll dance and sing) the whole night long, such fun as never seen
The lads will be decked in corduroy, the colleens wearin' green
There'll be thousands there that I never saw, I've been so long away,
But my mother will introduce them all and this, to me, will say:

Chorus

There came - Brannigan, Flannigan, Milligan, Gilligan
Duffy, McGuffy, Malachy, Mahone
Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly
Dooley, O'Hooley, Muldowney, Malone

Calona, O'Hona, O'Rannahan, Flanaghan
(or Madigan, Cadigan, Lanihan, Flanihan) Faigan, O'Hagan, O'Hoolihan, Flynn
Shanihan, Manihan, Fogarty, Hogarrty
Kelly, O'Kelly, McGuinness, McGuinn.

"Pat O'Brien was late!"

Additional Verse

Tomorrow off to church I'll go And wedded I will be
To my sweet little colleen Sweet Biddy McGee
And Biddy was true and faithful To her Barny over the sea
And she'll join the harp and shamrock To the stars of liberty.

Regards
TGIF
John