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| WHILE going the road to sweet Athy, | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| While going the road to sweet Athy, | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| While going the road to sweet Athy, | 5 |
| A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye, | |
| A doleful damsel I heard cry: | |
| “Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye! | |
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| “With drums and guns, and guns and drums, | |
| The enemy nearly slew ye; | 10 |
| My darling dear, you look so queer, | |
| Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye! | |
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| “Where are your eyes that looked so mild? | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| Where are your eyes that looked so mild? | 15 |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| Where are your eyes that looked so mild, | |
| When my poor heart you first beguiled? | |
| Why did you run from me and the child? | |
| Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye! | 20 |
| With drums, etc. | |
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| “Where are the legs with which you run? | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| Where are thy legs with which you run? | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | 25 |
| Where are the legs with which you run | |
| When first you went to carry a gun? | |
| Indeed, your dancing days are done! | |
| Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye! | |
| With drums, etc. | 30 |
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| It grieved my heart to see you sail, | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| It grieved my heart to see you sail, | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| It grieved my heart to see you sail, | 35 |
| Though from my heart you took leg-bail; | |
| Like a cod you’re doubled up head and tail, | |
| Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye! | |
| With drums, etc. | |
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| “You haven’t an arm and you haven’t a leg, | 40 |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| You haven’t an arm and you haven’t a leg, | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| You haven’t an arm and you haven’t a leg, | |
| You’re an eyeless, noseless, chickenless egg; | 45 |
| You’ll have to be put with a bowl to beg: | |
| Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye! | |
| With drums, etc. | |
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| “I’m happy for to see you home, | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | 50 |
| I’m happy for to see you home, | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| I’m happy for to see you home, | |
| All from the Island of Sulloon; | |
| So low in flesh, so high in bone; | 55 |
| Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye! | |
| With drums, etc. | |
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| “But sad it is to see you so, | |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| But sad it is to see you so, | 60 |
| Hurroo! hurroo! | |
| But sad it is to see you so, | |
| And to think of you now as an object of woe, | |
| Your Peggy’ll still keep you on as her beau; | |
| Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye! | 65 |
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| With drums and guns, and guns and drums, | |
| The enemy nearly slew ye; | |
| My darling dear, you look so queer, | |
| Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye. | |
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