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Lyrics for Down Went Mcginty by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Down Went Mcginty | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 147 | | | | Lyrics: | DOWN WENT MCGINTY
(Joseph Flynn)
Sunday morning just at nine, Dan McGinty dressed so
fine
Stood looking at a very high stone wall,
When his friend, young Pat McCann, says,
"I'll bet five dollars, Dan
I could carry you to the top without a fall."
So on his
shoulders he took Dan, to climb the ladder he began,
And soon commenced to reach up near the
top;
When McGinty, cute old rogue, to win the five he did let go
Never thinking just how
far he'd have to drop.
Down went McGinty to the bottom of the wall
And tho' he
won the five, he was more dead than alive
Sure his ribs and nose and back were broke from
getting such a fall
Dressed in his best suit of clothes.
From the hospital Mac
went home, when they fixed his broken bones,
To find he was the father of a child;
So to
celebrate it right, his friends he went to invite,
An@ soon he was drinking whiskey fast and
wild;
Then he waddled down the street in his Sunday suit so neat
Holdlng up his head as
proud as John the Great;
But in the sidewalk was a hole, to receive a ton of coal,
That
McGinty never saw till just too late.
Down went McGinty to the bottom of the
hole,
Then the driver of the cart gave the load of coal a start
And it took us
half an hour to dig McGinty from the coal,
Dress'd in his best suit of
clothes.
Now McG@nty raved and swore, about his clothes he felt so sore
And an oath
he took he'd kill the man or die;
So he tightly grabbed his stick and hit the driver a
lick,
Then he raised a little shanty on his eye.
But two policemen saw the muss and they
soon joined in the fuss
Then they ran McGinty in for being drunk;
And the Judge says with
a smile, we will keep you for a while
In a cell to sleep upon a prison bunk.
Down
went McGinty to the bottom of the jail,
Where his board would cost him nix, and he stay'd
exactly six;
They were big long months he stopp'd for no one went his bail
Dressed in his best suit of clothes.
Now McGinty thin and pale one fine day got out of
jail,
And with joy to see his boy was nearly wild;
To his house he quickly ran to see his
wife Bedaley Ann,
But she skipp'd away and took along the child.
Then he gave up in
despair and he madly pulled his hair
As he stood one day upon the river shore;
Knowing
well he couldn't swim, he did foolishly jump in,
Although watcr he had never took before.
Down went McGinty to t@e bottom of the say (sea)
And he must be very wet for they
haven't found him yet
But they say his ghost comes round the docks before the break
of day,
Dressed in his best suit of clothes.
@Irish @drink
@ghost
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