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Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
23-Jan-13 - 09:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Brian O'Lynn & Tam o' the Linn
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Brian O'Lynn & Tam o' the Linn
An elaborate tongue-twisting version from Edward Vaughan Kenealy in "Fraser's Magazine" (Feb. 1842):
Brian O'Linn was an Irishman born,
His teeth were long and his beard was unshorn;
His temples far out and his eyes far in,
"I'm a wonderful beauty," says Brian O'Linn.
Fal de ral la ral la la ral lal lee.
His temples far out and his eyes far in,
"I'm a wonderful beauty," says ranting, roaring, boring, screwing, augering, gimleting, malleting, hammering, coblering, nailoring, soldiering, sailoring, tinkering, battering, barbering, tailoring, schemering, ramming, damning, boxing, pig-killing, rowing, cursing, grog-drinking Brian O'Linn : "I would leather the Devil," says Brian O'Linn.
Brian O'Linn had no breeches to wear,
So they brought him a sheep-skin to make him a pair;
The woolly side out and the fleshy side in,
" 'tis pleasant and cool," says Brian O'Linn.
Fal de ral, &c.
Brian O'Linn had an old grey mare,
Her legs they were long and her sides they were bare ;
Away he rode through thick and through thin,
" I'm going to get married," says Brian O'Linn.
Fal de ral. &c.
Away he rode to the old cuckoo's nest,
Who said "Which of my daughters do you like best ?
There is one can card and the other can spin."
"Hoo! I'll marry them both," says Brian O'Linn.
Fal de ral, &c.
"Will you marry me now ?" this damsel replied.
" I will marry you now, my honey," he cried;
"And I'll forfeit my life, or it's I will you win:
Faik ! it's I that will settle you," says Brian O'Linn.
Fal de ral, &c.
Brian O'Linn, his wife, and wife's mother,
They all went into one bed together;
The blankets were broke, and the sheets were thin,
"Let's lie close together," says Brian O'Linn.
Fal de ral, &c.
Brian O'Linn, his wife, and wife's mother,
They all went over the bridge together;
The bridge it broke down and they all tumbled in,
"Bad luck to the mason," says Brian O'Linn.
Fal de ral, &c.