"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.