Sidelight:

The Irish tune collector and poet P. J. McCall (1861-1919), author of "Follow Me Up to Carlow," "Boulavogue," and other songs, wrote his own words to the jig-tune "The Unfortunate Rake."

The song appeared (with the air indicated specifically as that in Levey's Dance Music of Ireland, vol. 2) in The Pulse of the Bards (Dublin, 1904).

The chorus runs:

Look at me now on the high-road to ruin,
Money I scatter and glasses I break.
Everyone else but the maid I'm pursuin'
Pities, indeed, the Unfortunate Rake!

The words have no similarity to those of the better-known "Rake."