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| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Pat Malone Forgot That He Was Dead | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 149 | | | | Lyrics: | PAT MALONE FORGOT THAT HE WAS DEAD
Times were hard in Irish town; everything was going
down,
Pat Malone was pushed for ready cash.
He'd the life insurance spent; all his money,
too, had went
And all of his affairs had gone to smash.
His wife spoke up and said, "Now,
dear Pat, if you were dead
This twenty thousand dollars we could take."
And so Pat laid
down and tried to make out that he had died
Until he smelled the whiskey at the wake.
Then Pat Malone forgot that he was dead.
He raised himself in the bed and what he said,
"If this wake goes on a minute, to be sure the corpse is in it
You'll have to keep me drunk
to keep me dead, "
So they gave the corpse a cup, and afterward they filled it
up
And laid him down again upon the bed.
And before the morning grey, everybody felt so
gay
They forgot that Pat was only playing dead.
So they loaded him from the bunk, still
alive but awful drunk
And put him in the coffin with a prayer.
And the driver of the cart
said, "Be God, I'll never start
Until I see that someone pays the fare."
Then Pat Malone
forgot that he was dead.
He raised himself in the coffin, while he said,
"If you
fairly doubt my credit, you'll be sorry that you said it
You drive on or else the corpse will
break your head.
So the funeral started out on the cemetery route,
And the neighbors
tried the widow to console.
'Til they got beside the base of Malone's last resting
place
And gently lowered Patrick in the hole.
Then Pat began to see, just as plain as one
could see
That he'd forgot to reckon on the end.
And as clods began to drop he broke loose
the coffin top
And quickly to the earth he did ascend.
Then Pat Malone forgot that he
was dead,
And from the cemetery quickly fled.
He came nearly going under, it's a lucky
thing, by thunder,
That Pat Malone forgot that he was dead.*
Note: as collected,
last line read " That Pat Malone forgot that he's not
dead". i CHANGED IT, FOR SENSE.
RG
from Folk Songs Out of Wisconsin, Peters
Collected from Robert Walker, Crandon, WI
1941
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