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Thread #10325   Message #4179741
Posted By: and e
23-Aug-23 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Riley's Daughter / Reilly's Daughter
Subject: RE: Origin: Riley's Daughter / Reilly's Daughter
TIM O'BRIEN'S SONG

Tim O'Brien is my name,
Drinking gin my occupation,
Shaggin' dames my claim to fame,
Jesus Christ is my salvation.

CHORUS:
Tiddely ay ay, tiddley ay oh,
Tiddley ay'ay the one-eyed Reilly,
Rig-a-jig-jig, balls and all,
Rub-a-dub-dub, shag on.

Seated by the fireside,
I was drinking gin and water,
Suddenly it came io mind,
I'd like to shag old Reilly1s daughter.

Up the stairs and into bed,
Suddenly I threw my left leg over,
Nary a word the maiden said,
Laughed like hell till the fun was over.

Down the stairs and in the street,
Who should I meet but the one-eyed Reilly,
Brace of pistols at his side,
Looking for the man who shagged his daughter.

Grabbed old Reilly by the neck,
Stuck his head in a pail of water,
Jammed those pistols up his ass,
A damn' sight harder than I shagged his daughter.

As I go walking down the street,
People shout from every corner,
"There goes the goddam sonofabitchl"
The guy that shagged Old Reilly's daughter.

Febuary, 1945, Aloha Jigpoha, [compiled by Robert D. Thornton]. Pg. 57.

Aloha Jigpoha is the songbook of the Navy linguists during WWII. Jigpoha is an intentional corruption of JICPOA (Joint Intelligence Center Pacific Operation Area). It was a translation, interpretation, intelligence office within Nimitz's Commander In Chief Pacific (CINCPAC). Between 1942 and 1945, the Navy and Marine Japanese Language Officers in JICPOA (trained in Navy Japanese Language Schools located in Tokyo [1910-1940], Berkeley and Harvard [1941-42], Boulder [1942-1945] and Stillwater [1945-46]) translated and interpreted captured enemy documents and intercepted radio traffic, and interrogated Japanese POWs. These linguists frequently were sent out with the fleets as part of invasion forces and to translate aboard carriers and flagships.


See online here: https://archive.org/details/1945alohajigpoha/page/57/mode/1up?q=daughter