I got this in an email from Faith Petric yesterday, and I asked her permission to post it here as it seems too good not to share. She wrote:
   "Barack Obama indeed has Irish ancestry. As he has said "I've got pieces of everybody in me." Church documents, census, immigration and other records tracked down by U.S. genealogists show that Obama's great-great-great-grandfather, Fulmuth Kearney, reared in Moneygall, County Offaly , Ireland, came to the US in 1850 at age 19. His family line eventually produced Ann Durham who married Barack Obama, a Kenyan. In l961 they had a son also named Barack Obama, now running
for President of the United States.
    The town of Moneygall has one stop light, two pubs, and a population of 298 which is delighted. Villager Henry Healy, 22, says:
"Sure it's great! It would be brilliant if he won because for on
thing he is related to me, and also it would be good for the village."   The Irish Corrigan Brothers wrote the first three verses and chorus of the song below, Shay Black contributed verses 4 and 5, Chris Caswell number 6 - there are lots, lots more!
    Shay hosts the regular Sunday evening music sessions at the Starry
Plow in Berkeley, California where the song has been sung with a new
verse added each week.

^^
Barack O'Bama
Lyrics: The Corrigan Brothers, Shay Black and Chris Caswell
Sung to the tune of: Sweet Betsy from Pike
Traditional tune based on 19th century song
"Villikins and His Dinah"


Chorus
O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare, O'Hara
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama
From the old Blarney Stone to the green Hill of Tara
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama.

You don't believe me, I hear you say
But Barack's as Irish as was our JFK
His granddaddy's granddaddy came from Moneygall
A village in Offaly, well known to all.

He's as Irish as bacon and cabbage and stew
He's Hawaiian; he's Kenyan; American too
And if he succeeds and he has a chance
I'm sure that our Barack will do Riverdance.

From Kerry and Cork to old Donegal
Let's hear it for Barack, from old Moneygall
From the Lakes of Killarney to old Connemara
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama.

His mam's daddy's granddaddy was one Falmuth Kearney
He's as Irish as any from the Lakes of Killarney
His mam's from a long line of great Irish mammas
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama.

He looks after his own, a true son of St. Patrick
He chose as his mate, Joe Biden, a Catholic,
Proddies, Jews, Muslims, even the Dalai Lama
Know there's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

From Spain 'cross the waters, from France and beyond,
Our people have come and though many have gone
We remain what we are when we all started out
And of the Black Irish, Barack's one, no doubt.

Tooral ­U, tooral ­OO tooral ­OO, toor a lama
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

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From Joe Offer: This message about attribution appears below:
Folks
very important that this song is credited to Hardy Drew and the Nancy boys from Limerick Ireland.Ger ,Brian and Donncha Corrigan.
Theres no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama
We gave Shay permision to write extra verses.
Adding extra verses to Hey Jude does not mean it was co written with the Beatles.
Appreciate if you are posting Shays cover of the song that you reference the origal song and credit it appropriately.
We are flattered that our song has been covered but disappointed about the way it has been posted.
Also see earlier YouTube recording by Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys.