My dad kept a pig, and my mother sold whisky:

My uncle was rich, but would never be asy,

Till I was enlisted by Corporal Casey.

Oh! rub a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey!

My dear little Sheelah I thought would run crazy,

When I trudged away with tough Corporal Casey.

I march'd from Kilkenny, and as I was thinking

On Sheelah, my heart in my bosom was sinking;

But soon I was forced to look fresh as a daisy,

For fear of a drubbing from Corporal Casey.