Here's a set from Robin Morton's "Folksongs Sung in Ulster"THE IRISH JUBILEE
A short time ago an Irishman named Docherty
Was elected to the Senate by a very large majoritySure he felt so elected that he went to Denis Cassidy
Who owned a bar room of a very large capacityArra, says Docherty go over to the brewer and order
A hundred kegs of lager beer and give it to the poor!Then go over to the butchers shop and order up a ton of meat
Be sure the boys and girls have got all they want to drink and eatThey made me their senator, to show them all me gratitude
They'll have the finest supper ever given in the latitudeTell them the music will be furnished by O'Rafferty
Assisted on the bagpipes by Felix Mick M'CaffertySure whatever the expenses are, remember I'll put up the tin
And anyone who doesn't come, be sure and do not let them inNow Cassidy at once sent out the invitations
And anyone who came was a credit to the nationSome came on bicycles because they had no fares to pay
And all those that did not come, made up their minds to stay awayTwo by three they all rushed in the dining hall
Young men and old men and girls that were not men at allBlind men and deaf men and men who had the chickenpox
Single men and double men and men who had their glasses onWell in a few minutes nearly every chair was taken
Till the taprooms and mushrooms were packed to suffocationWhen everyone was seated and we started to lay out the feast
Cassidy says rise up and give us each a cake apieceHe then said as manager he would try and fill the chair
We then sat down and all looked over the bill of fareWell there was pigs heads, goldfish, mocking birds and ostriches
Ice cream, cold cream, Vaseline and sandwichesBlue fish, green fish, fishhooks and partridges
Fish balls, snowballs, cannonballs and cartridgesWe ate oatmeal till we could hardly stir about
Ketch-up and hurry-up, sweet-kraut and sauerkrautDressed beef and naked beef and beef with all its trousers on
Soda crackers, firecrackers, Cheshire cheese with breeches onBeefsteaks and mistakes were down upon the bill of fare
Roast ribs and spare ribs and ribs that we couldn't spareReindeer, snow-deer and dear me and antelope
The women ate so much melon, the men said they cantaloupeRed herrings, smoked herrings, herrings from old Erin's Isle
Bangor loaf and fruit cake and sausages a half a mileHot corn, cold corn, and corn cake and honeycomb
Red birds and red books, sea bass and sea foamFried liver, baked liver, Carter's little liver pills
And everyone was wondering who was going to pay the billWell we ate everything that was on the bill of fare
And then we looked on the back to see if any more was thereWell for dessert we had ice picks, tooth picks and a piece of skipping rope
And we washed them all down with a big piece of shaving soapThe bad played hornpipes, gas-pipes and Irish reels
And we danced to the music of "The wind that shakes the Barley fields"Then the piper played old tunes and spittoons so very fine
Then in came fiddler Pat and gave to him a glass of wineArra a finer set of dancers you never set your eyes upon
And anyone who couldn't dance was dancing with their slippers onSome danced jig steps doorsteps and highland flings
And Murphy took his penknife out and tried to cut the "Pigeon's wings"When the dance was over Cassidy told us all to join hands and sing this good old chorus
Should Old acquaintance be forgot, who ever you may be
Lets think of the good old times we had at the Irish Jubilee!Phew!