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I met me friend Paddy McKenna,
One evening on Washington Street;
Said he to me, "Say Jimmy Dolan,
Here's a ticket will give you a treat!"
I took up the card that he offered,
Begob t'wasn't large, t'wasn't small;
It just admitted a gent and a lady,
To a party in Oddfellow's hall.
Waltzes, polkas, lancers, gallops and slide,
Hi-dos, di-dos, fancy quadrilles, reels and slide;
I'll never forget that night, you may bet,
I went down to Oddfellows Hall.
McKenna he was floor director,
He wore a green badge on his chest;
Pink necktie tucked into his shirt front,
Begob he was handsomely dressed.
And when he walked up with Miss Bridget,
Sure I wasn't in it at all;
But I says to meself, "Wait, McKenna,
There's more than one man in the hall."
Waltzes, polkas, lancers, gallops and slide,
Hi-dos, di-dos, fancy quadrilles, reels and slide;
I'll never forget that night, you may bet,
I went down to Oddfellows Hall.
I waited till after it was over,
Then up to him boldly I go;
Says I to him, "Shy Patty,
Where did you hire them clothes?"
"You're a liar!" says Pat in a second,
Says I, "What's that word that ye called?"
And the next minute me and McKenna,
Were cleaning up Oddfellows Hall.
Waltzes, polkas, lancers, gallops and slide,
Hi-dos, di-dos, fancy quadrilles, reels and slide;
I'll never forget that night, you may bet,
I went down to Oddfellows Hall.
Next mornin' before Justice Duffy,
Sure me and McKenna were brought in;
Ten dollars or ten days, sir,
But poor me and Pat hadn't a ten.
We took a short sail down the harbour,
Begob we were feellin' quite small;
We spent ten days on their island,
For cleaning up Oddfellows Hall.
Collected in 1950 from Mr. Walsh of Calvert, NL, and published in MacEdward Leach And The Songs Of Atlantic Canada © 2004 Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA).
