"And down at the South, do ye mind,
There's plinty of Irishmen mustering,
Deluded to fight for the wrong
By rebel mis-statements and blustering;
But once let ould England, their foe,
To fight with the Union begin again,
And sure, they'd desert to a man!"—
"You're right, sir," says Misther McFinnigan.
"There's niver an Irishmen born,
From Maine to the end of Secessiondom.