Quite a few jaunting car songs here but the one to which I'm referring starts, "I am an Irish carman/Old Erin is my home;" it's the one parodied as "The Jarvey Was a Leprechaun." I don't know how old it is; the first I have found it is in several songsters of the 1920s such as "Well-Known Songs of Ireland" and the 2nd edition of the Derry Journal's "Old Come-All-Yes." There is no author named in these books. The 1952 copyright record claims to be the copyright *for the arrangement* by Marion McClurg, and names the author as Wilson Crean. But Google turns up no reference to any such person as Wilson Crean before 1952.

Hear it sung by Bridie Gallagher: Youtube. I was acquainted with it via the singing of Marty O'Keefe, late of Rochester N.Y., born in Querrin, Co. Clare, in 1912.