Welcome Poor Paddy Home - Dervish

I am a true born Irishman

I’ll never deny what I am

I was born in sweet Tipperary town

Three thousand miles away

-Chorus-

Hurray me boys hurray

No more do I wish for to roam

For the sun it will shine in the harvest time

To welcome poor Paddy home

The girls thay are gay and frisky

They’d take you by the hand

Saying Jimmy mo chroi will you come with me

To welcome poor Paddy home

-Chorus-

In came the foreign nation

And scattered all over the land

The horse, the cow, the goat, sheep and sow

Came into the stranger’s hands

-Chorus-

The Scotsman can boast of the thistle

And England can boast of the rose

But Paddy can boast of the Emerald Isle

Where the dear little shamrock grows.

-Chorus-