Pride of American Cousin

- The draper shop in Drumshanbo town was busy on the day The girls were moving bales of cloth and packing shelves away Are you allowed to dance tonight Jackie's hall we all can sway It's a ceili Band of Shan-a-han their good to dance and play - Dadddy's working late the pit and Sunday mass must go The night before this dance you talk a condition don't you know I will my mother announce to her and mammy will promote My dress is paid and shelf a laid I'll take now then she wrote Home that evening gay and trip the thatch upon the hill Daddy home descends the thrown and says no way you will Sad and cry by tears to sill and wipe them with the net A car a pilot steps on out and walks the lane we met American Uniform proud and boast a cousin from the states Oh ! Daddy dear please come come here I beg it's not too late Well fair enough a chaparone took, be home by midnight moon Oh ! Daddy dear I love you here and Mammy stirred the spoon Into the dance a pride so strong all girls with jaws a dropp A stunning man she said at hand an accent slightly lopped I know that day my mother say one day I'll marry him But Daddy knows as cousins go not possible a sin (Snippet of a story involving my mother in 1940s -West of Ireland)