The Belle of Long Lake

Come all you good fellows until I relate
Of a racket we had up around Long Lake.
There was big Jimmie Lou, Dandy Pat, too,
All jolly good fellows as ever you saw,
And we lumbered for Griffith on Township Nineteen.
Down, down, down derry down.

Oh, the man that run the Shantee
He was the laziest damn man that ever you saw
He'd lay round the Shanty from morning till night,
If a man said a word he was ready to fight
Down, down, down derry down.

One morning you know, Pat he got mad
Knocked Hell out of Griffith. The boys was all glad
And his wife stood by and if the truth she would tell
She was tickled to death to see Griffith catch Hell
Down, down, down derry down.

O Christmas is coming, I'm going to Glens Falls
And when I get there I'll go on a spree
Oh, when I have money, the Devil's in me
Down, down, down derry down. ^^^

Source: The New Green Mountain Songster

from the singing of Herbert Haley, Shrewsbury Mountain