A popular song from 1915.
Words by Joe Young.
Music by Walter Donaldson.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Lonesome Paddy, lovesick laddie
From old Emerald’s Isle
Never wore a smile but now
He’s smiling all the while
Feeling better, got a letter
From his colleen true
He said, “I’m awful glad
There’s nothing left for me to do
But take me pen, I wouldn’t have to try
To send me Mollie-o this one reply
Chorus:
I’ll be back in me Low Back car
Just to get you, me shining star
With a heart that is true
Always beating for you
I love your Irish eyes of blue
Sure! it’s a long, long way to old Killarney
But remember you can’t be too far
For if it takes from now ’til judgement day
I’ll be back in me Low Back car
2. Winds were blowing, it was snowing
Thirty-two below, his mule refused to go
Then adding to his woe
He tickled his old mule and like a fool
Sailed thro’ the air
Behind a heavy cloud he spied
A wireless station there
He stopped a while to send a telegram
To Mollie-o and this is how it ran