Barney McGee's Making Sheep's Eyes At Me 1908

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 October 2010
2010

There's a story around
and it's all over town
And begorry the joke of the season,
Little Mamie O'Daire
was a beauty for fair
who broke heart after heart
without reason,
Now young Barney McGee
was as green as could be
Just a bashful and countrified jay,
But he opened the eyes
of those swell Irish guys
When he said: "Mamie's mine,
lads, beginning this day."
When they told pretty Mamie
of young McGee
She went into hysterics and said to me:

Barney McGee, Barney McGee
Barney McGee's making sheep's eyes at me
And he follows me 'round all over town
Where ever I go why it's Barney I see,
When his tongue is the thickest
his wits are the quickest
A big Irish lad and faith he's never sad
O Barney McGee, Barney McGee,
Barney McGee's making sheeps eyes at me.

Just a week from today
is a wedding they say
and Miss Mamie is buying her trousseau
While the loves that she shattered
and hearts that she battered
are thrown aside
why will girls do so?
So at first Mamie laughed
but right now she plumb daft
and she's willing to love and obey,
And the whole joke is this
that the coy little Miss
Is promised to Barney
and picked out the day,
So the whole town is laughing
and poking fun
But she blushes and says:
"There is only one!"

Barney McGee, Barney McGee
Barney McGee's making sheep's eyes at me
And he follows me 'round all over town
Where ever I go why it's Barney I see,
When his tongue is the thickest
his wits are the quickest
A big Irish lad and faith he's never sad
O Barney McGee, Barney McGee,
Barney McGee's making sheeps eyes at me.

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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Barney McGee's Making Sheep's Eyes At Me 1908
by Fleta Jan Brown
© MCMVIII by M.Witmark & Sons
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 21 October 2010 at 17.10
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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