Ohone!
All were courting the Widow Malone.
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Charles Lever.
Thackeray, as is well known, had a knack of writing humorous burlesque Irish songs, in imitation of the brogue and whiskeyiana of Lover and Lever. The following is, perhaps, the best of its kind, the metre resembles that of Lever’s “Widow Malone.”
Larry O’Toole.
You’ve all heard of Larry O’Toole,
Of the beautiful town of Drumgoole;
He had but one eye,