And I thought I would find
Yourself coaxing my child on your knee.
Over the tide
I would leap with the leap of a swan,
Till I came to the side
Of the wife of the Red-haired man!
(Jack Smith comes in; he is a red-haired man, and is carrying a hayfork.)
Mrs. Tarpey: That should be a good song if I had my hearing.
Mrs. Fallon: (Shouting.) It’s “The Red-haired Man’s Wife.”
Mrs. Tarpey: I know it well. That’s the song that has a skin on it!