And danced at your ball with the greatest delight,
But for years, and some business at home.
He's really a marvel, you know, for his age;
At your great Philadelphia pow-wow
He'd have reeled you off columns of talk, I'll engage,
Though he's getting an Old Boy now.
Chorus.
He's getting an Old Boy now,
Yet but for our big Irish row,
He'd have come like a shot,