Oh [C] Ireland is a very funny place sir it’s a [F] strange old troubled [C] land And the Irish are a very funny race sir every girls in the Cumann na [a] mBan Every [C] doggy wears a tricolored ribbon tied [F] firmly to it’s [C] tail And it [F] wouldn’t be surprising if there’d [C] be another rising said the man from the [G] Daily [C] Mail
Now [C] every bird upon my word is singing [a] treble “I'm a rebel!” Every [C] hen, it’s said, is laying hand grenades, over [G] there sir, I do declare sir And [F] every cock in the [C] farmyard stock sings a [F]war cry of the [C] Gael And it [F] wouldn’t be surprising if there’d [C] be another rising said the man from the [G] Daily [C] Mail
The other day I travelled down to Clare sir and I spied in an old boreen There were a bunch of Fenians gathered there sir dressed in orange, white and green They were marching to the German goose-step and whistling Granne Wale And I’m shaking in my shoes as I`m sending out the news says the man from the Daily Mail
The whole country is seeded with sedition, it’s Sinn Fein through and through All the people they are joining the Provisionals and the password is Sinn Fein too The IRA sent me a time bomb in the mail They sent it from the Curragh and they’re getting out tomorrow said the man from the Daily Mail