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Description of Pizzaro (1817)
Description of Pizzaro
3259538Description of Pizzaro — Description of Pizzaro1817


DESCRIPTION OF PIZARRO.

From the county of Cork, you see I lately came,
The harvest to reap, Mr Doodey’s my name;
I, my cousin Shaun Shaughnessy met t’other day,
And says he will you go to that thing call’d a play.
With my loorel lol loo.

‘Ist the play that you mean, arrah Doodey you’re right,
For they treat the whole town with Pizarro to night;
Oh says he, if I’m treated, the thing’s nate and clane;’
But this treat as they calld it cost me a thirteen

The green thing drew up, and a lady I spied,
A man came to kiss her, she scornfully cried,
‘Get out you blackguard or I'll bother your gig,’
Then in came Pizarro who growl'd like a pig.

In the ou’d gowry people’s time long, long ago,
The Spaniards all walk'd to Peru you must know,
Says they, ‘you must give up your cash and your keys,’
But one Captain Rolla said ‘No, if you please.’

Then Rolla a speech made about swords and guns,
And he moved like a comet, amongst moons and suns;
Says he, ‘hate the Spaniards, or else you’ll all starve,
So his majesty here are you willing to serve.’

Then what a confusion, hubbub and holla;
‘T'was fire away Spaniards, and leath’r away Rolla,
Poor Murphy Alonica like a thief went to jail,
But his neck is sav’d somehow, without giving bail.

Next Pizarro came in with a little garsoon,
Who was handled by Rolla as l would a spoon;
But whilst he was making a bridge, smithereens,
He was shot by a villain behind all the scenes.

Then he gave to its mother this sweet little child
And he looked about him as if he was wild;
‘Take the boy my dear cratur, ‘tis my blood that is spilt,
To save him, oh blood and ’ounds! see how I‘m kilt.’

Then Alonza gave Paddy Pizarro a blow,
That kill’d him as dead as ould Brien Boreau,
At last on a board Rolla’s body they take,
And twenty nate virgin's all join’d at his wake.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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