Paddy McGinty's Goat Lyrics

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T:Paddy McGinty's Goat Lyrics
C:R. P. Weston, Bert Lee, and The Two Bobs, 1917
C:(this version undoubtedly folk-processed)
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M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:160
Z:Brian Martin
Z:abc-edited-by: Adlai Waksman
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W: Mr. Patrick McGinty, an Irishman of note,
W: Fell into a fortune, and bought himself a goat.
W: Says he, "Sure, of goat's milk I mean to have me fill!"
W: But when he got his nanny home, he found it was a bill.
W: 
W: And now all the ladies who live in Killaloo
W: They're all wearing bustles like their mothers used to do.
W: They each wear a bolster beneath their petticoat,
W: And leave the rest to Providence and Paddy McGinty's goat!
W: 
W: 
W: Mrs. Burke to her daughter said, "Listen, Mary Jane,
W: Now who is the lad you were cuddlin' in the lane?
W: He'd long wiry whiskers all hanging from his chin."
W: "Twas only Pat McGinty's goat," she answered with a grin.
W: 
W: Then she went away from the village in disgrace,
W: She came back with powder and paint upon her face.
W: She'd rings on her fingers, and she wore a sable coat,
W: You bet your life they never came from Paddy McGinty's goat.
W: 
W: 
W: Little Norah McCarthy the knot was going to tie,
W: She washed all her trousseau and hung it out to dry.
W: Then up came the goat and he saw the bits of white:
W: He chewed up all her falderals, and on her wedding night,
W: 
W: "Oh turn out the gas quick!" she shouted out to Pat,
W: "For though l'm your bride, sure l'm not worth looking at.
W: I'd got two of ev'rything, I told you when I wrote,
W: But now I've one of nothing, all through Paddy McGinty's goat."
W: 
W: 
W: Mickey Riley he went to the races t'other day.
W: He won twenty dollars and shouted, "Hip Hooray!"
W: He held up the note, shouting "Look at what I've got!"
W: The goat came up and grabbed at it and swallowed up the lot.
W: 
W: "He's eaten me banknote," said Mickey with the hump.
W: They ran for the doctor, he brought a stomach pump.
W: He pumped and he pumped for that twenty dollar note,
W: But all he got was ninepence out of Paddy McGinty's goat.
W: 
W: 
W: Well the bould Irish guards, you would think it was romance,
W: They adopted the goat and they brought him off to France.
W: The day that they landed he heard the bugle blow,
W: He ducked his little cranium and he ran to meet the foe.
W: 
W: The Germans retreated, hurriedly they fled,
W: Holding their noses they tumbled over dead.
W: "Ach," says the Kaiser, "there's poison gas afloat!"
W: But it was only the effluvium from Paddy McGinty's goat.
W: 
W: 
W: Off the west coast of Ireland one morning they were seen
W: As plain as any pikes, there were German submarines.
W: When coast-guard Maloney fell into a fit,
W: Says Paddy McGinty's goat, "It's time for me to do me bit."
W: 
W: He jumped into the water as frisky as a whale,
W: Swam around the u-boat wagging his little tail.
W: He upped with his horn and he stuck it in the boat
W: And sent them all to Heligoland, did Paddy McGinty's goat.
W: 
W: 
W: Now Paddy McGinty's goat had a wondrous appetite.
W: One morning for breakfast he ate some dynamite,
W: Then a big box of matches he swallowed with a grin,
W: And when he had his fill of that he drank some paraffin.
W: 
W: He sat by the fireside, he didn't give a hang,
W: Swallowed a spark and exploded with a bang.
W: So, if you go to heaven you can bet your dollar note
W: That the angel with the whiskers on is Paddy McGinty's goat.