Thanks,all, for the lyrics. ard mhacha, I can relate. My grandfather, from Kilkenny, also hated the song for ridiculing the Irish. Grandad could still remember the "No Irish Need Apply" signs that greeted him when he got off the boat, and the vicious caricatures in the papers, and the reference to the police van as a "Paddy Wagon." To call him a "Mick" was to invite a punch in the eye. It's interesting how subsequent generations of Irish Americans, politically empowered and socially accepted, not subject to the bigotry and hatred our immigrant ancestors knew, came to take pride in and laugh at the stereotypes. Once a group is no longer persecuted, the insults become a source of pride. Consider Notre Dame's nickname and mascot. Sadly, once they entered the "Mainstream," many Irish became the primary tormentors of the next group of arriving immigrants. Some of the worst bigots are those who were only recently victims. Sad, that.