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JERRY MAHONEY'S (K. O. S. P.) PATRICK'S DAY.

A FIG for yer Washington's Birtday,

Away wid yer Fourt uv July, -

The fun uv yer neetion's Thanksgivin',

Be jabers! 't is all in yer oiy.

What hero is wurth the comparin'

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Wid Pathrick, the Oirishman's jy?

And who dare the laurels be sharin'

Wid him, that foine broth uv a by?

I was up wid the sun, bright and airly,

Ere the lazy shpalpeen was a dawnin';

Yis, 't was dark, and the bands they a playin'

"Seent Patherick's Dee in the Mornin'."

And I dhressed in me green and me yillow,

And gurded me sword by me side;

And niver a nater young fillow

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