Johnny McEldoo-The Clancy Brothers

[ti:Johnny McEldoo] [ar:The Clancy Brothers] [al:Irish Folk & St. Patrick's Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Johnny McEldoo - The Clancy Brothers [00:02.96]There was Johnny McEldoo and McGee and me [00:05.24]And a couple or two or three [00:06.51]Went on a spree one day [00:08.06]We had a bob or two which we knew how to blew [00:10.17]And the beer and whiskey flew and we all felt gay [00:12.99]We visited McCann's McLemann's Humpty Dan's [00:15.48]We then went into Swann's our stomachs for to pack [00:17.93]We ordered out a feed which indeed we did need [00:20.01]And we finished it with speed but we still felt slack [00:23.06]Johnny McEldoo turned red white and blue [00:25.21]And a plate of Irish stew he soon put out of sight [00:27.95]He shouted out Encore with a roar for some more [00:30.24]That he never felt before such a keen appetite [00:32.96]He ordered eggs and ham bread and jam what a cram [00:35.63]But him we couldn't ram though we tried our level best [00:38.23]For everything we brought cold or hot mattered not [00:40.13]It went down him like a shot and he still stood the test [00:43.03]He swallowed tripe and lard by the yard We got scared [00:45.58]We thought it would go hard when the waiter brought the bill [00:47.96]We told him to give other but he swore he could loser [00:50.34]Twice as much again and more before he had his fill [00:52.98]He nearly sucked a trough full of broth Says McGrath [00:55.26]He'll devour the table cloth if you don't hold him in [00:57.80]When the waiter brought the charge McEldoo felt so large [01:00.23]He began to scowl and barge and his blood went on fire [01:02.75]He began to curse and swear tear his hair in despair [01:05.02]And to finish the affair called the shopman a liar [01:07.78]The shopman he drew out and no doubt he did clout [01:10.16]McEldoo he kicked about like an old football [01:12.68]He tattered all his clothes broke his nose I suppose [01:14.93]He'd have killed him with a few blows in no time at all [01:17.43]McEldoo began to howl and to growl by my soul [01:19.59]He threw an empty bowl at the shopkeeper's head [01:22.36]It struck by Mickey Finn peeled the skin off his chin [01:24.50]And the ructions did begin and we all fought and bled [01:27.06]The Peelers did arrive man alive four or five [01:29.34]At us the made a drive us all to march away [01:31.97]We paid for all the meat that we ate stood a treat [01:34.34]And went home to ruminate on the spree that day