He was the envy of men, and the women’s delight.

Now Molly Muldoon liked Jemmy O’Hare,

And in troth Jemmy loved in his heart Miss Muldoon.

I believe in my conscience a purtier pair

Never danced in a tent at a patthern in June,—

To a bagpipe or fiddle

On the rough cabin-door

That is placed in the middle—

Ye may talk as ye will,

There’s a grace in the limbs of the peasantry there