Did You Ever See The Divil?
Source: The Stone Fiddle by Paddy Tunney
Location: New Edition, page 82
Did you ever see the Divil, with his wooden leg and shovel,
Diggin pritties in the garden with his tail cocked up?
When the flies they started fizzin’, sure that tail around went whizzin’,
But they dragged him back to prison, where he’s now locked up.
To the Divil’s great delight, sure the spuds got black with blight,
And the people died all frightened of the famine and the woe.
But Saint Patrick’s taught him manners, and upset the foreign planners,
He regrew the Pinks and Banners in the fields both high and low.