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GUEST,oogieray Lyr Req: Dan McCarthy's Party (J. E. Murphy) (31) RE: Lyr Req: Dan McCarthy's Party (J. E. Murphy) 09 Aug 12


The version we had on a 45 in the 50's was like the verse mentioned by Guest: The police weren't invited but later they were there. There was also a verse that went:
"It was on the way to the gas station when somebody said let's eat.
And if I wasn't good and strong myself I wouldn't have got a seat.
Such table manners as I saw there I never could understand.
When I reached to get some meat a dozen forced against me hand.
O'Brien spilled some gravy and it got the Missus goat.
She said that's what she gets for eating dinner in her coat.
Lannigan yells to Branigan, 'why you're nothing but a hick'
.....
.... It started a fight that lasted all night 'cause nobody wanted to stop.......
O'Brien brought a singer with a very peculiar air.
He sang 'Ireland Must Be Heaven Cause My Mother Came From There'.
He couldn't take an encore 'cause they crowned him with a chair.
But nobody knows what happened to McCarthy."

The flip side of the 45 record had the song "He's a Devil in His Own Hometown". I think a singer named McCarthy was listed as the artist.
I wish we had saved that record.


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