{"id":1814,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/paddy-mcgintys-goat"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"paddy-mcgintys-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/paddy-mcgintys-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"PADDY McGINTY’S GOAT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

Patrick McGinty, an Irishman of note
\nCame into a fortune, so bought himself a goat
\nSaid he, “Sure, of goat’s milk I mean to have my fill!”
\nBut when he got his Nanny home, he found it was a Bill<\/p>\n

And now all the ladies who live in Killaloo
\nAre all wearing bustles like their mothers used to do
\nThey each wear a bolster beneath the petticoat
\nAnd leave the rest to Providence and Paddy McGinty’s goat!<\/p>\n

Missis Burke to her daughter said, “Listen, Mary Jane,
\nNow who was the man you were cuddling in the lane?
\nHe’d long wiry whiskers all hanging from his chin”
\n“Twas only Pat McGinty’s goat, ” she answer’d with a grin<\/p>\n

Then she went away from the village in disgrace
\nShe came back with powder and paint upon her face
\nShe’d rings on her fingers, and she wore a sable coat
\nYou bet your life they never came from Paddy McGinty’s goat<\/p>\n

Little Norah McCarthy the knot was going to tie
\nShe washed all her trousseau and hung it out to dry
\nThen up came the goat and he saw the bits of white:
\nHe chewed up all her falderals, and on her wedding night:<\/p>\n

“Oh turn out the gas quick!” she shouted out to Pat
\nFor though l’m your bride, sure l’m not worth looking at
\nI’d got two of ev’rything, I told you when I wrote
\nBut now I’ve one of nothing, all thro’ Paddy McGinty’s goat’<\/p>\n

Mickey Riley he went to the races t’other day
\nHe won twenty dollars and shouted, “Hip Hooray!!”
\nHe held up the note, shouting “Look what I’ve got!”
\nThe goat came up and grabbed at it and swallowed all the lot<\/p>\n

“He’s eaten my banknote,” said Mickey, with the hump
\nThey ran for the doctor, he brought a stomach pump
\nHe pumped and he pumped for that twenty dollar note
\nBut all he got was ninepence out of Paddy McGinty’s goat<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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