St. Patrick was a Gentleman

St. Patrick was a gentleman and he came from decent people:
In Dublin town he built a church and on it put a steeple;
His father was a Willagan, his mother an O?Grady.
His aunt she was a Kinaghan, and his wife a widow Brady
Tooralloo tooralloo, what a glorious man our saint was,
Tooralloo, tooralloo, O whack falderalal do

Och Antrim hills are mighty high and so?s the hill of Howth too;
But we all do know a mountain that is hight than them both too
Twas on the top of that high mount St. Patrick preached a Sermon
He drove the frogs into the bogs and banished all the vermin,
Tooraloo, &c.

No wonder that we Irish lads then are so blithe and frisky
St. Patrick was the very man that taught us to drink whisky
Oh to be sure he had the knack and understood distilling
For his mother kept a sheebeen shop near the town of Enniskillen.
Tooraloo, &c.

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