Pride of Pimlico (Arthur Griffith) Come all ye broken hearted ones and listen to my lay About a lovely damsel, as fair as any May Who's caused much tears and sorrow and grief and heartfelt woe It's Kitty Flynn I'm speaking of, the Pride of Pimlico It's just about a month ago unto this place she came And set our hearts a blazing up in love's undying flame And made of every other lass about the place a foe Because she took their sweethearts, did the Pride of Pimlico Poor Paddy Burke the tailor now can't do a stroke of work Nor Billy Shee the handyman, nor steady Jack McGurk And if you ax the reason all they'll answer you is "O 'Tis all because of Kitty Quinn, the Pride of Pimlico" Old Jimmy Kane the miser that no one could get round And young Tom Ray who owns a forge and near a hundred pound And Mat M'Cann whose father keeps the Irish Waxwork Show Are raving night and day about the Price of Pimlico Its time the polis saw to it, it soon will be too late An divil a man in all the Coombe will have a solid pate Or soon beyond in Riley's a sight of awful woe You'll see ten thousand victims of the Pride of Pimlico! Copyright Arthur Griffith Written by Arthur Griffith - the man who negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1920/1. This is the song as given in O'Lochlinn's "More Irish Street Ballads" MR MR OCT98
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