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Posted By: Jim Dixon
16-Jul-08 - 04:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Tom Bolynn (3)
Subject: Lyr Add: BRYAN O'LYNN (from Bodleian)
From The Bodleian Library broadside collection, Firth c.26(41). I have added punctuation.

NEW VERSION OF
BRYAN O'LYNN.
John Bebbington, Printer 31, Oldham Road, Manchester. Sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York Street, Leeds. [between 1858 and 1861]

1. Bryan O'Lynn was a Scotchman born.
His hair it was long, and his beard unshorn.
His teeth was out and his eyes far in.
"I'm a wonderful beauty," says Bryan O'Lynn.

CHORUS: For he was a regular ranting, roaring,
Hoaring, boring, screwing, auguring, riveting,
Crevicing, hammering, malleting stone,
And plastering, combering, weavering,
Butchering, bankering, tinkering, tailoring,
Soldiering, sailoring, ledging, wedging, guggling,
Auguring three-handled iron-gouging pin.
"I'd wallop the d——l," says Bryan O'Lynn.

2. Bryan O'Lynn had no breeches to wear.
He bought a sheep skin to make him a pair.
With the fleshy side out, and the wooly side in,
"It's pleasant and cool," says Bryan O'Lynn.

3. Bryan O'Lynn had no hat to his head.
He stuck on a pot that was under the bed.
He murdered a cod for the sake of its fin.
"'Twill pass for a feather," says Bryan O'Lynn.

4. Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to his back.
He went to a miller and borrowed a sack.
He puckered the meal-bag under his chin.
"They'll think it's a dickey," says Bryan O'Lynn.

5. Bryan O'Lynn was in want of a brooch.
He stuck a brass pin in a great cockroach
And into his shirt he stuck it right in.
"They'll think it's a diamond," says Bryan O'Lynn.

6. Bryan O'Lynn was hard up for a coat.
He borrowed the skin of a neighbouring goat.
He buckled the horns right under his chin.
"They'll do me for pistols," says Bryan O'Lynn.

7. Bryan O'Lynn had no watch for to wear.
He got a big turnip and scouped it fair.
He [then] put a cricket inside the skin.
"They'll think it is ticking," says Bryan O'Lynn.

8. Bryan O'Lynn had no shoes at all.
He bought an old pair at a cobbler's stall.
The uppers were broke and the soles were thin.
"They'll do me for dancing," says Bryan O'Lynn.

9. Bryan O'Lynn went a-courting one night.
He set both the mother and daughter to light.
"Stop, stop!" says he. "If you have but the tin,
I'll marry you both," says Bryan O'Lynn.

10. Bryan O'Lynn he got wed in a crack.
He brought his wife home on top of his back.
They danced all night till the day broke in.
"I'll go to my hammock," says Bryan O'Lynn.

11. Bryan O'Lynn, his wife, and wife's mother,
They all tumbled into one bed together.
The blankets were broke & the sheets were thin.
"Let us [toss?] for the middle," says Bryan O'Lynn.

12. Bryan O'Lynn got the end of a straw
And with it he tickled his mother-in-law.
"What's that?" she cried with a terrible grin.
"It's a bite of a bug," says Bryan O'Lynn.