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The Irishman is never quite / Contented with his little lot; / He's ever thirsting for a fight, / A grievance he has always got; / And all his energy is bent / On trying not to pay his rent.
He lives upon a frugal fare / (The few potatoes that he digs), / And hospitably loves to share / His bedroom with his wife and pigs; / But cannot settle even here, / And gets evicted once a year.
In order to amuse himself, / At any time when things are slack, / He takes his gun down from the shelf / And shoots a landlord in the back; / If he is lucky in the chase, / He may contrive to bag a brace.
_MORAL_
Procure a grievance and a gun / And you can have no end of fun.