Larry O’Toole

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You've all heard of Larry O'Toole,
Of the beautiful town of Drumgoole;
 He had but one eye,
 To ogle ye by—
Oh, murther, but that was a jew'l!
 A fool
He made of de girls, dis O'Toole.

'Twas he was the boy didn't fail,
That tuck down pataties and mail;
 He never would shrink
 From any sthrong dthrink,
Was it whisky or Drogheda ale;
 I'm bail
This Larry would swallow a pail.

Oh, many a night at the bowl,
With Larry I've sot cheek by jowl;
 He's gone to his rest,
 Where's there's dthrink of the best,
And so let us give his old sowl
 A howl,
For 'twas he made the noggin to rowl.

© William Makepeace Thackeray