A Most Choice Collection of Popular Songs/Corporal Casey
Corporal Casey.
When I was at home, I was merry and frisky,
My dad kept a pig, and my mother sold whisky:
My uncle was rich, but would never be aisey,
Till I was enlisted by Corporal Casey.
Och ! rub a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey!
My dear little Shelah, I thought would run crazy,
When I trudg'd away with tough Corporal Casey.
I marched from Kilkenny, and as I was thinking
On Shelah, my heart in my bosom was sinking
But soon I was forced to look fresh as a daisey,
For fear of a drubbing from Corporal Casey!
Och ! rub a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey!
The devil go with him! I ne'er could be lazy,
He stuck in my skirts so, ould Corporal Casey.
We went into battle, I took the blows fairly
That fell on my pate, but they bother'd me rarely;
And who should the first be that dropt! why, an' plaise ye,
It was my good friend, honest Corporal Casey.
Och! rub a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey.
Thinks I you are quiet, and I shall be aisey;
So eight years I fought without Corporal Casey.