Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/The Found Leader
The Found Leader
(Air: Molly Malone.)
'Tis Justin MacarthyThat now leads our party:He was born in the beautiful city of Cork:He has wrote for quare papers,And cut some quare capers,And got through a wonderful deal of loose talk:
He once drove his barrowThrough streets wide and narrowSinging novels, bad novels and other bad books:And other bad boo-ooksAnd other bad boo-ooks,Singing novels, bad novels and other bad books!
He consults pretty freelyWith Timothy Healy,And is mighty polite to the former Lord Mayor:And he'll often be sighingThat William O'BrienAnd good Mr Dillon can never be there:
But he once &c. &c.
The devices of ParnellAre truly infarnalAnd he fights like a man with his back to the wall:But the divil is in itIf Justin can't win it,For bedad he can keep the commandments and all:
But he once drove &c. &c.