1862, graduation program parody in "Alumni Record 1857-192"2 (Appleton, Wis.: Lawrence College, 1922):

“MUSIC – ‘One eyed Riley.’ | EXHORTATION. | MUSIC – ‘Hog Eye Man.’ ”


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1870 "Ottawa [Ill.] Free Trader" (Sept. 30, 1870):
“One [‘of four prominent young gentlemen of our city’] was singing the ‘Doxology,’ another ‘Daisy Deane,’ and another ‘I want to be an angel,’ and still another was doing his ‘level best’ on ‘One eyed Riley.’ In the meantime, they took a drink between times.”

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1871 "Des Moines Registe" (Apr. 1 ):
“Our ‘Professor’ at once commenced playing some of the old…music, such as ‘Arkansaw Traveler,’ ‘Irish Washerwoman,’ ‘Soap Suds over the Fence,’ ‘One-Eyed Reilly,’ and other airs of the same kind.”


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1880 Columbia [College] Spectator, VI :

“Ah! an evil thought comes in my mind,
Like that which dawned upon the One Eyed Riley.”

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1886 Nassau Herald (Princeton U.) XXII:

“In his checkered career as a detective he has made one coup, that is the discovery and committal (to memory) of ‘One-Eyed Riley.’ He has introduced ‘One-Eyed Riley’ to every Freshman class since he was himself a Freshman, and sprung it on the great and glorious class of ’90.”

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1916 in W. V. Tilsley, "Other Ranks" (1931) [British Army]:

        I sat down by Old Riley’s fire,
        Winking at Old Riley’s daughter.
        Suddenly a thought came into my head —
        I’d like to kiss Old Riley’s daughter.
        Iddy I-ay, Iddy I-ay, Iddy I-ay
        To the One-eyed Riley
        Iddy I-ay, Iddy I-ay,
        Jig-a-jig-jig, très bon!

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1943 in Mack Morriss, "South Pacific Diary" (1996):

"[On Guadalcanal] they sing 'One Ball Riley (Here Comes the Goddam Son of a bitch [sic])."