LyrReq: Johnstons song Matter A Damn?

Subject: Missing Johnstons song Matter A Damn?
From: Greum
Date: 13 Jun 21 - 08:04 AM

I'm sure I recall a song by The Johnstons in the 70s called Matter a Damn (not Give a Damn, I've found that). I can only recall a few of the words:

And if the Irish population
Had a dose of  ?
There'd be less immigration
Matter a damn.

(or something like that).

I can find no mention of the song anywhere on the web, and it's not given in any of the albums in Discogs.

Am I alone in this memory?

Subject: RE: Missing Johnstons song Matter A Damn?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 13 Jun 21 - 10:31 AM

Matter a Damn Lyrics.

Chorus.

Oh,
There are Irish men in Brooklyn, and Chicago, and Detroit.
There's a Celt in every Kipp in Birmingham,
But if the Irish population had a dose of
light starvation
There'd be less of immigration Matter a Damn.
1.
Matter a damn with peace and loving
And as gentle as a Saint,
Matter a who's a piece as sweet as Strawberry jam
When your blume is getting blowzy
And your looks are getting lousey
He'el begin to act a bowzy Matter a Damn.

Chorus as above

2.
Haven't you ever wondered whether that about another
kind of lover,
Have you ever tried to dream
about romance,
Only, if I remember I can you can only dream at night
And if you have a husband sure
You'll never get a chance.

(Chorus as above)

3.
Oh me Mother told me sister and me sister told meself
She was sorry she ever listened to her Mam
For she met an Irish fooler and
with loving words he filled her
Now she's, 27 children Matter a Damn.

4.
There's a little guy from Dublin I got
married to myself,
In the daytime he's as gentle as a lamb.
But when the daylight it is dying
And he wants his satisfying,
He becomes a roaring lion
Matter a Dam.
5.
So, if you want to find a roving man,
A gentle man,a thinking man
You have at first a change to your life
But if you'd rather had a
roving man, a roaring man,a drinking man
Its an Irishman who will have you for a wife

(Chorus as above now sung twice and
At the very end of the last chorus are the words
matter a curse matter a curse matter a drink, matter a damn.

(Burrowes-Coffey.)

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The above song is copied as is from the page that opens (about half-way down) at

https://www.irish-folk-songs.com/mccarthys-party-lyrics-and-chords.html

Subject: RE: Missing Johnstons song Matter A Damn?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 13 Jun 21 - 10:38 AM

Greum, you supplied enough of the lyrics in your OP for me to locate the lyrics. For future reference, what I did was highlight the

And if the Irish population
Had a dose of ?
There'd be less immigration
Matter a damn.

you supplied and then did a Google search. They were in the site that appeared first. I don't know who Burrowes-Coffey are, but I'd suspect maybe/possibly the songwriters.

Subject: RE: Missing Johnstons song Matter A Damn?
From: Greum
Date: 13 Jun 21 - 11:35 AM

Many thanks. I can't tell you how many internet searches I tried.

Looks like I was wrong about it being the Johnstons.

G