Now if she should mix in the war—
Be jabers! it makes me head spin again!
Ould Ireland would have such a chance!"—
"You're right, sir," says Misther McFinnigan.
"You talk about Irishmen, now,
Enlistin' by thousands from loyalty;
But wait till the Phœnix Brigade
Is called to put down British Royalty!
It's then with the Stars and the Stripes
All Irishmen here would go in again,