The Dubliners - The Louse House At Kilkenny lyrics

Oh, the first of me downfall
I set out the door
I straight made me way on for Carrick-on-Suir
Going out by Rathronan 'twas
Late in the night
Going out the West Gate for
To view the gaslight
Radley fal the diddle ay
Radley fal the diddle airo

I went to the town's hall to see the big lamp
And who should I meet but a bloody big tramp
I finally stepped over and to him I said:
"Will you kindly direct me to
Where I'll get a bed?"
Radley fal the diddle ay
Radley fal the diddle airo

'Twas then he directed me down to Cooks Lane
To where old Buck St John
Kept an old sleeping cage
From out of the door was
A small piece of board
Hung out on two nails with
A short piece of cord
Radley fal the diddle ay
Radley fal the diddle airo

I looked up and down till
I found out the door
And a queerer old household sure
I ne'er saw before
Then the Misses came out and
These words to me said:
"If you give me three coppers
Sure I'll give you a bed"
Radley fal the diddle ay
Radley fal the diddle airo

Well I then stood aside with
Me back to the wall and the next thing I saw
Was an oul cobbler's stall
And there was the cobbler and
He mending his brogues
With his hammers and pinchers all
Laid in a row radley fal the diddle ay
Radley fal the diddle airo

Then she brought me upstairs and
She put out the light
And in less than five minutes
I had to show fight
And in less than five more
When the story was best
The fleas came around me and
Brought me a curse radley fal the diddle ay
Radley fal the diddle airo

'Twas all around me body they formed a march
'Twas all around me body they
Played the Death march
For the bloody oul major gave me such a pick
That he nearly made away with half of me hip
Radley fal the diddle ay
Radley fal the diddle airo

Now I'm going to me study
These lines to pen down
And if any poor traveller should
E'er come to town
And if any poor traveller should
Be nighted like me
Beware of Buck St John and his black cavalry
Radley fal the diddle ay
Radley fal the diddle airo