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Thread #106289   Message #2194445
Posted By: Severn
15-Nov-07 - 10:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I'm Leaving Tipperary / Goodbye Mick
Subject: Lyr Add: I'M LEAVING TIPPERARY (from Frank White)
The Frank White version has some differences in words and verse configurations:

I'm Leaving Tipperary

The ship will sail in half an hour to cross the broad Atlantic.
Me friends are standin' on the pier with grief and sorrow frantic.
Me trunks are stored away below in the great ship Dan O'Leary.
The anchor's weighed, the gangplank's up, I'm leaving Tipperary.

CHORUS: Goodbye Mike, goodbye Pat, goodbye Kate and Mary.
The anchor's weighed, the gangplank's up, I'm leavin’ Tipperary.
There's the steamer blazin' up. I can no longer stay,
For I'm bound for New York City, boys, three thousand miles away.

Give my respects to Mr. Mack and likewise Kitty Hagen,
And I'll come back to the christenin' when she marries Patsy Fagan.
I'm as deep in love with Molly Burke as a jackass is in clover,
And when I'm settled in, she'll come, I'll pay her passage over. CHORUS

I'm goin' on the police force in the City of New York.
I suppose I'll meet a lot of men that came from County Cork.
I'll show them when I get there, if I see they are contrary,
How an Irishman can throw a stone that comes from Tipperary. CHORUS

.... I guess the moral of it all in this version is "Beware of Policemen Throwing Stones!"

No information on the authorship or publishing, just that White was a vaudeville entertainer in his seventies when he released the song in the '30s.