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One evening of latest as I happened to stray To the county Tipperary I straightened me way To dig for potatoes and work by the day For a farmer called Darby O'Leary I asked him how far we where bound for to go The night being dark and a cold wind did blow I was hungry and tired and me spirits where low For I got neither whiskey nor water The dirty ould miser he mounted his stead To the Gull Belly mountains he road in great speed I followed behind till my poor feet did bleed When we stopped when his old horse was weary When we came to his cottage I entered it first It seems like a kennel or ruined old church Says I to myself I am left in the lurch In the house of old Darby O'Leary I well recollected was mickle must night To a hearty good supper he did me invite A cup of sour milk that was more green than white And it gave me the threatened disorder The wet oul potatoes would poison the cats SongtexteAnd the barn where me bed was with sworn with rats The fleas would have frightened the fearless Saint Pat' Who banished the snake o'er the border? He worked me by day and he worked me by night While he held an old candle to give me some light I wished these potatoes would die of the blight Or himself would go off with the fairies 'tWas on this old miser I looked with a frown When the straw was brought in for to make me shake down And I wished that I'd never seen him nor his town Nor the sky over Darby O'Leary I've worked in Kilconnal, I've worked in Kilmore I've worked in Knockannie and Shanbalamore And Pallas and Nigger and Salahatmore With farmers so decent and cheery I've worked in Tipperary, the rag in Rossgreen At the mount of Kilfacel the bridge of Aleen Such woe-full starvation, I never yet seen As I got from ould Darby O'Leary Aus Songtexte Mania