From Mick Maloney's recording of this song, on Uncommon Bonds, a CD on Green Linnet, with Eugene O'Donnell. GLCD 1053. Originally an LP from 1984.

An excellent CD--also has "Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake" and other gems.

Liner notes on "Muldoon, the Solid Man":

"This was written in 1874 by Ed Harrigan, the famous 19th century playwright of Harrigan and Hart fame. The central figure is somewhat of a composite characterization of well-to-do, upwardly mobile Irish Americans of that era. The song quickly became highly popular in the music halls of New York City and was in particular associated with the noted music hall performer W.J. Ashcroft, who would perform the song in the Theater Comique, flamboyantly dressed in top hat and tailcoat. His performances of the song in Dan Lowry's Music Hall in Dublin in 1880 introduced the song to Ireland, and it entered the oral tradition in due course. I Iearned the first two verses from Dublin singer Frank Harte, and retrieved the last verse from the Harrigan original version...."

Mick sings a variation of the text noted above by Jim Dixon. So his version combines the original Harrigan lyric with some Dublin influences.