This, celtaddict, is an entirely Cockney song ~ written for the great Cockney music-hall comedian Harry Champion [best known for such as Any Old Iron, Boiled Beef & Carrots, I'm Enery the 8th I Am, &c], by his friend Harry Wincott, prolific writer of Cockney music-hall songs. Where on earth did you get idea there was anything "Irish" about it?