Mr Sweeney 1910

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 28 August 2010
2010

Sweeney is an Irishman
who loves his Irish name,
If he meets you he'll just tell it,
He don't have to wait and spell it,
Like the Harrigan's the Kelly's
and some others just the same;
But one fault
he's had from childhood ever since,
He's the hardest man I've heard of
to convince.

So if you've anything to tell
to Mister Sweeney,
Don't forget to tell it straight
for he's powerful and strong
and I've noticed all along
that he'll never fight unless he's right
but then he's never wrong,
so if you've anything to tell
to Mister Sqeeney
Tell it plainly as you can,
When he makes his mark some day,
'twill be a question mark, they say,
That's Mister Sweeney a Brainy man.

So if you've anything to tell
to Mister Sweeney,
Don't forget to tell it straight
for he's powerful and strong
and I've noticed all along
that he'll never fight unless he's right
but then he's never wrong,
so if you've anything to tell
to Mister Sqeeney
Tell it plainly as you can,
When he makes his mark some day,
'twill be a question mark, they say,
That's Mister Sweeney a Brainy man.

Once he passed a building,
'Twas the grandest of its kind,
To a lady he said: "Missus,
can you tell me whose place this is?"
She said: "Sure I can, sir,
it's the institution for the blind,"
Sweeney said: "Well, if they're blind,
they see no more,
What the hell
did they put him down in there for?"

So if you've anything to tell
to Mister Sweeney,
Don't forget to tell it straight
for he's powerful and strong
and I've noticed all along
that he'll never fight unless he's right
but then he's never wrong,
so if you've anything to tell
to Mister Sqeeney
Tell it plainly as you can,
When he makes his mark some day,
'twill be a question mark, they say,
That's Mister Sweeney a Brainy man.

So if you've anything to tell
to Mister Sweeney,
Don't forget to tell it straight
for he's powerful and strong
and I've noticed all along
that he'll never fight unless he's right
but then he's never wrong,
so if you've anything to tell
to Mister Sqeeney
Tell it plainly as you can,
When he makes his mark some day,
'twill be a question mark, they say,
That's Mister Sweeney a Brainy man.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
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Mr Sweeney 1910
Music by Seymour Furth
Lyrics by Will A.Heelan
© 1910 by The Jos.Morris Co.  New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 28 August 2010 at 14.43
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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