A popular song from 1905.
Interpolated into the 1902 musical “The Wizard of Oz”.
Words by Harold Atteridge.
Music by Bert Peters.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Oh, they all may talk of their Julies
Bedelias or some other lass
But I love a charming young widow
A widow by sod, not grass
Oh, she’s a regular divil
She’s stole me heart away
And if I get a fighting chance
I’ll marry her some day
Chorus
Oh, Mrs. O’Harahan
I would like to be your man
For you darling I have sighed
Since the day your Dinny died
Oh, Mrs. O’Harahan
Live without you I never can
Of kids you have twenty
I’ve ‘nough and a plenty
To keep up the name of O’Harahan
- Sure I knew her when she was Clancy
And Dinny, he was the man
Who took her out of me own arms
And call’d her O’Harahan
Faith, now poor Dinny has left us
And if I have me way
Tho’ she is fat and forty-one
I’ll carry her away
Sung here by Vancha March: