Johnny Mceldoo Cifras

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There was Johnny McEldoo and McGhee and me, and a couple or two or three went on a spree one day
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We had a bob or two which we knew how to blew, and the beer and whiskey flew and we all felt gay
 
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We visited McCann's, McIllmann's, Humpty Dan's, we then went in to Swann's our stomachs for to pack
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We ordered out a feed which indeed we did need, and we finished it with speed but we still felt slack
 
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Johnny McEldoo turned red, white and blue when a plate of Irish stew he soon put out of sight
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He shouted out "Encore" with a roar for some more, that he never felt before such a keen appetite
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He ordered eggs and ham, bread and jam, what a cram! But him we couldn't ram though we tried our level best
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For everything we brought, cold or hot, mattered not,it went down him like a shot, but he still stood the test
 
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He swallowed tripe and lard by the yard, we got scared, we thought it would go hard when the waiter 
brought the bill
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We told him to give o'er, but he swore he could lower twice as much again and more before he had his fill
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He nearly supped a trough full of broth says McGrath, "He'll devour the tablecloth if you don't hold him in"
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When the waiter brought the charge, McEldoo felt so large,he began to scowl and barge and his blood went on 
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fire
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He began to curse and swear, tear his hair in despair, and to finish the affair called the shopman a liar
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The shopman he drew out, and no doubt, he did clout, McEldoo he kicked about like an old football
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He tattered all his clothes, broke his nose, I suppose he'd have killed him with a few blows in no time at all
 
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McEldoo began to howl and to growl, by my sowl, he threw an empty bowl at the shopkeepers head
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It struck poor Mickey Flynn, peeled the skin off his chin and the ructions did begin and we all fought and
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bled
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The peelers did arrive, man alive, four or five, at us they made a drive for us all to march away
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We paid for all the mate, that we ate, stood a trate, and went home to reminate on the spree that day
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