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The wild Irishman
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Artist: Tom Kines 1962 • Source: http://www.folkways.si.edu/tom-kines/... • Info: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/... • Lyrics : • Now there was a wild Irishman, in Dublin he did dwell, • He came across to Halifax, his story I will tell; • He went into a barber shop all for to get a shave, • When a big ugly beast up to Paddy he did behave. • Chorus: • And sing folde rol de ri do, fol de rol de ray. • Can you shave a wild Irishman that's just come from the sod? • Sure the monkey look'd at Pat, gave a wink and a nod, • He then picked up a lathing brush all in his hairy paw, • And he kicked up his heels and he lathered Paddy's jaw. • Oh he then picked up a razor which he prepared to use, • And at the very first clip, he cut off poor Paddy's nose; • He lathered him and shaved him and cut his face full sore, • Like a bullock that was nearly dead, poor Paddy he did roar. • Oh, then in come the barber, al trembling with fear, • When he heard this wild Irishman begin to curse and swear; • What is the matter, my good man? the barber says, says he, • Don't you see how your darned ould father has been cuttin' me? • Oh, he is not my father, for a long time he's been dead. • Well then he is your grandfather, his ugly grey old head, • He's up in the chimney corner and he doesn't dare come down, • Bloodhounds, sure if I had him I would crack him on the crown! • Oh, he opened up the door and he stumbled down the street, • It was one of his countrymen he chanc-ed for to meet, • And seeing hum a-bleeding, he pitied his sad case, • Say, you blood and you turf man, who has cut your face? • You blood and you turf man, you must have been so mad, • To set there and let them cut your cheek and face so bad, • Come into a whiskey shop, your story for to tell, • I will see if Irish Whiskey will make your poor face well. • Come all you wild Irishmen who want to have a shave, • Never go into the monkey shop unless you will behave, • For monkeys they are foolish and Irishmen are mad, • And you know as well as I do that a monk don't like a Pad.
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