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Thread #7208   Message #3645816
Posted By: Jim Dixon
27-Jul-14 - 11:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: Doherty's/Dougherty's Boarding House
Subject: Lyr Add: MCCARTHY'S BOARDING HOUSE (T E Powers)
From the sheet music at Duke University:

MCCARTHY'S BOARDING HOUSE
Words and music by Thomas E. Powers
New York: Mrs. Pauline Lieder, ©1878.

1. Dan McCarthy lives in Cherry Street,
    McCarthy's boarding house.
He keeps a boarding house so neat,
    McCarthy's boarding house.
Five dollars a week to him we pay,
    McCarthy's boarding house.
We get three square meals ev'ry day,
    McCarthy's boarding house.

CHORUS: There's the Clearys and Learys,
And McLions and Flynns,
Denny, the Regans, and the Fagins,
    McCarthy's boarding house. REPEAT

2. I tell you, boys, they feed us high,
    In McCarthy's boarding house
On lobster salad and lemon pie,
    In McCarthy's boarding house.
Quail on toast, eggs and ham,
    McCarthy's boarding house.
Corned beef and cabbage and Italian jam,
    McCarthy's boarding house.

CHORUS: There is cobblers and nailers,
Tailors and weavers,
Tiny butchers and bakers,
    In McCarthy's boarding house. REPEAT

3. McCarthy bought a new piano
    For McCarthy's boarding house,
For his elegant daughter, big Johanna
    In McCarthy's boarding house.
And she's the girl knows how to play
    In McCarthy's boarding house.
She'd drive your appetite away
    In McCarthy's boarding house.

CHORUS: Johanna, alanna,
Loves Nailor, the Tailor
And faith, they'll be married
    In McCarthy's boarding house. REPEAT

[Spotify has a recording of this song by Parlormuse on "It's Not the Coat Makes the Gentleman" (2007).]