Hello all,

I learned the first part of this song from my mother's mother when I was something like 5 years old, and never forgot the first line, which follows:

"Did you ever step into an Irishman's shanty
Where water is scarce and whisky is handy . . .(?)"

I only have the haziest of memories about the three legged stool and that's all. Not too bad considering I am now 49 years old. When I first heard this song from my gran, I didn't know what Irish meant, nor what a shanty was, or why an Irishman would live in one, nor what being Catholic or Irish Catholic meant, nor even that there had ever been a potato famine. But every few years this song churns up in my memory, and thanks to all of you kind people here I finally have many of the actual words or variations to this jig or reel. Much obliged
and best regards,
Steven