Another broadside from the Bodleian collection, 2806 c.8(102):


A much-admired Song
CALLED
The Great Fight,
BETWEEN
J. Coburn & Jem Mace
For the Championship of Ireland

Attention pay, dear Irishmen, to what you shall hear
Concerning Coburn's challenge to England on this year.
That gallant Irish hero, may the heavens on him smile.
He's loved by all both great & small around old Erin's isle.

CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah, for Coburn, boys, a son of Granuaile.
John Morrissy will stand his seconds while he's walloping Jem Mace.

Our noble champion Coburn bet £600 and more—
That he'll wallop any English & leave him in his gore.
At the Curragh of Kildare I'll show some fun & that without delay.
I'll let them know before I go the belt I'll take away.

You all heard tell of the English giant that burst from Stiley's Bridge.
He was walloped in 8 rounds by Mace & he also walloped King;
But Coburn swears to all his might before he do go home,
He'll make him dance to that old tune they call'd sweet Garryown. [sic]

I'll have Jem Mace for to be ready and tell him in a crack—
That as soon as he enters the Curragh of Kildare, I'll surely break his back.
The place appointed for the fight I'm sure you all well know.
It was there that brave Dan Donnelly left Couper in his gore.

I was challenged in the ring all by John Morrissy,
But I being of the Irish blood to that I wouldn't 'gree.
But now I'll fight this bully, and that I'll let ye know.
J. Morrissy will tell me where I'll give him every blow.

To sound his praises more, and the truth I'll relate,
He is in form and in fashion, in every way complete. [sic]
He is six and twenty years of age and accordingly he is strong.
As for strength and activity, he is a clever man.