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Thread #1445 Message #42776
Posted By: Big Mick Lane
22-Oct-98 - 03:23 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Pat of Mullingar/The Man from Mullingar
Subject: Lyr Add: THE MAN FROM MULLINGAR
Hi Jennifer,
The song is titled "THE MAN FROM MULLINGAR." Here are the words to this version:
1. You may talk and write and boast about your Fenians and your clans, And how the boys of county Cork beat up the Black and Tans, And view a little codger who came out without a scar. His name was Paddy Mulligan, the man from Mullingar.
CHORUS: And the peelers chased him out of Connemara For beating up the valiant scion O'Hara. When Paddy came to Ballymote, he stole the Parson's goat And sold him to the Bishop down in Ardagh. Seven hundred peeler's hinchmen (....couldn't catch him) The King sent out an order for lynch him. When Patrick came to Dublin Park, he stole his motor car, And gave it to the IRA brigade in Mullingar.
2. On Easter Monday when the boys did hear the bugle's sound, Paideen raised the flag of war down in his native town. First he went to make his peace with dear old Father Maher, Then went out and blew the barracks up, and wrecked half of Mullingar.
3. When Ireland takes her place among the nations of the world, And her flag of orange, white and green to the four winds is unfurled, When you read about the roll of honour you will find mark'd with a star Patrick Sarsfield Mulligan, the man from Mulligar.