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THE MAN FOR GALWAY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To drink a toast
Last Line: With debts, etc.


TO drink a toast,
A proctor roast,
Or bailiff, as the case is;
To kiss your wife,
Or take your life
At ten or fifteen paces;
To keep game cocks, to hunt the fox,
To drink in punch the Solway,
With debts galore, but fun far more;
Oh! that's 'the man for Galway.'
With debts, etc.

The King of Oude
Is mighty proud,
And so were onest the Caysars;
But ould Giles Eyre
Would make them stare,
Av he had them with the Blazers.
To the devil I fling ould Runjeet Sing,
He's only a prince in a small way,
And knows nothing at all of a six-foot wall;
Oh! he'd never 'do for Galway.'
With debts, etc.

Ye think the Blakes
Are no 'great shakes';
They're all his blood relations;
And the Bodkins sneeze
At the grim Chinese,
For they come from the Phenaycians.
So fill to the brim, and here's to him
Who'd drink in punch the Solway;
With debts galore, but fun far more;
Oh! that's 'the man for Galway.'
With debts, etc.





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