The Man From Mullingar - The Wolfe Tones

You may talk and sing and boast about your Fenians and your clans

And how the boys from County Cork beat up the Black and Tans

But I know a little codger who came out without a scar

His name is Paddy Mulligan, the man from Mullingar

The Peelers chased him out of Connemara

For beatin' up the valiant Dan O’Hara

And when he came to Ballymore, he stole the Parson’s car

And he sold it to the Bishop in the town of Castlegar

Seven hundred Peelers couldn’t match him

The Chief sent out the orders for to catch him

And when he came to Dublin Town, he stole an armoured car

And gave it to the IRA brigade in Mullingar

Well the Peelers got their orders to suppress the man on sight

So they sent for reinforcements through the county left and right

Three thousand men surrounded him, they hunted near and far

But he was with the IRA in Johnson’s motorcar

They came with tanks and armoured cars, they came with all their might

Them Peelers never counted on old Paddy’s dynamite

On the fourteenth day of April, well he blew them to July

And the name of Paddy Mulligan took half of Ireland’s pride