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So there I lay sleeping and dreeping a while,
But when I got up I began for to smile,
To see London city and suburbs all round,
And they said my dear Paddy you’re welcome to town.
But, pray, Sir, said I, how do you know my name,
I am but a stranger, from Ireland I came,
And this very day I came out of the sea,
And I wash'd half over from Donaghadee.
But when I got out of that turbulent tide,
I was then bound for Paris the war to decide.
To fight against Boney with all my whole strength,
But peace was proclaim’d before I got the length.
Since peace is concluded we'll join hands and sing,
In hopes that our trade it will flourish like spring.
Let thundering cannons now cease their loud noise,
And lasses in thousands receive home their boys.
FINIS.
