Ne'er found a rhyme for Tipperary.

He travell'd sad through Cork and Kerry,

He drove 'like mad' through sweet Dunleary,

Kick'd up a precious tantar-ara,

But found no rhyme for Tipperary;

Lived fourteen weeks at Stran-ar-ara,

Was well nigh lost in Glenègary,

Then started 'slick' for Demerara,

In search of rhyme for Tipperary.

Through 'Yankee-land,' sick, solitary,