With compliments:-

Champion He Was a Dandy.

(As sung by Bob Davenport with the Marsden Rattlers on the 1971 LP on the Trailer label LER 3008)

Me name it is Michael McCarthy, I come from the County of Down,
I'd a bet with one Michael O'Flaherty that me bulldog could murder the town.

I'd heard of one bold Terence Murphy, he lived away out in the bog,
He kept an old black and tan terrier and he swore it could murder me dog.

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Ohhhhhhh - Champion he was a dandy, 'til Murphy the dirty old hog,
Came along with his black and tan terrier and he murdered me twenty pound dog.

I set off my bold twenty pounder, he looked just as fit as a king,
He sized up the black and tan terrier, as they both chassee'd right round the ring.

They fought for one hour and a quarter, 'till champion slipped in the bog,
Then in stepped the black and tan terrier and a corpse lay me twenty pound dog.

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I swore that I'd have satisfaction, so I offered me coat and me hat,
And I walloped that whole Murphy faction, from big Terence down to little Pat.

Then I made a bee-line for the terrier, and I kicked it way out in the bog,
And all the way home I thought, Michael, there's revenge for your twenty pound dog.

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