A popular song from 1917
Words by Darl Mac Boyle
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Gerd Westendorp:
Lyrics
- Mary Ann McCarthy took a trip around the earth
She kept traveling ’till she had been everywhere
Then went back to Ireland
And the town that gave her birth
And she told the Colleens there
‘Shure the boys are just alike
No matter where you roam
If you gave them half a chance
They’ll make you feel at home
Chorus:
Oh! you can’t get away from the Blarney
You don’t always hear it with an Irish Brogue
The Hawaiians do it with a “Wickiwoo”
And even the monkeys in the tree
“Doodle de-oo-dle-doo-dle-dee”
They don’t all come from old Killarney
But every laddie buck’s a rogue
You don’t have to go to Cork
Dublin town or Donegal for it
Little old New York calls it “bull”
But still they fall for it
It’s nothing be a little bit of Blarney
- Mary Ann she met a man
Who was both deaf and dumb
But his fingers wiggle-wagged to beat the band
He was tryin’ to tell her
That she had him goin’ some
But she failed to understand
When he tried to steal a kiss
‘Twas all as plain as day
He’d the same idea but he had a different way