Paddy McGinty's Goat-Barnbrack

[ti:Paddy McGinty's Goat] [ar:Barnbrack] [al:Christmas Countdown] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Paddy McGinty's Goat - Barnbrack [00:06.17]Now patrick mcginty an irishman of note [00:09.37]Fell in for a fortune so he bought himself a goat [00:12.19]Says he sure of goat's milk i'm goin to have me fill [00:15.13]But when he brought a nanny home he found it was a bill [00:18.09]All the young ladies who live in killaloo [00:20.85]They're all wearing bustles like their mothers used to do [00:23.87]They each wear a bolster beneath their petticoat [00:26.84]And leave the rest to providence and paddy mcginty's goat [00:29.64] [00:31.80]Mrs burke to her daughter said listen mary jane [00:35.04]Who was the lad you were cuddlin in the lane [00:37.86]He'd long wiry whiskers a hanging from his chin [00:40.70]'Twas only pat mcginty's goat she answered with a grin [00:43.81]Then she went away from the village in disgrace [00:46.59]She came back with powder and paint upon her face [00:49.50]She'd rings on her fingers and she wore a sable coat [00:52.44]You bet your life she didn't get those from paddy mcginty's goat [00:55.25] [00:57.38]Now norah mccarthy the knot was going to tie [01:00.60]She washed out her trousseau and she hung it out to dry [01:03.48]Along came the goat and he saw the bits of white [01:06.36]And chewed up all her falderals upon her wedding night [01:09.24]Oh turn out the light quick she shouted out to pat [01:12.21]For though i'm your bride sure i'm not worth looking at [01:15.08]I had two of everything i told you when i wrote [01:18.04]But now i've one of nothing all through paddy mcginty's goat [01:20.84] [01:22.94]Mickey riley he went to the races t'other day [01:26.15]He won twenty dollars and he shouted hip hooray [01:29.08]He held up the note shouting look at what i've got [01:31.87]The goat came up and grabbed it and he swallowed up the lot [01:34.91]He's eaten my banknote mickey with a hump [01:37.70]They went for the doctor and they got a stomach pump [01:40.75]They pumped and they pumped for the twenty dollar note [01:43.67]But all they got was ninepence out of paddy mcginty's goat [01:46.46] [01:48.58]Now old paddy's goat had a wonderous appetite [01:51.68]And one day for breakfast he had some dynamite [01:54.71]A big box of matches he swallowed all serene [01:57.60]Then out he went and swallowed up a quart of paraffin [02:00.59]He sat by the fireside he didn't give a hang [02:03.42]He swallowed a spark and exploded with a bang [02:07.13]So if you go to heaven you can bet a dollar note [02:11.15] [02:11.87]That the angel with the whiskers on is paddy mcginty's goat