The Black-bird/Captain Mulligan

by Anonymous

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CAPTAIN MULLIGAN.

O Love is a plague by night and by day,
 Once that post you run your skull again;
Love it was for Kitty O’Shea,
 That bother’d the heart of Captain Mulligan.

 Light and merrily, light and gay,
 Stout and merrily, smart and readily.
 Soft and funnily, blyth and bonnily,
 Quite an Adonis was Captain Mulligan.

He was willing, she was killing,
 Soft she cried to brave O Mulligan,
O you jewel! cruel jewel!
 Willing, killing Captain Mulligan!

Shoulders rising over his ears!
 Face just like moon in full again!
Legs in shape of a tailor’s sheers!
 You ne’er saw the fellow of Captain Mulligan!

 Limping, waddling Miss O'Shea,
Glances twitching him, quite bewitching him!
 Ogling bonnily—squinting funnily,
She was a Venus to Captain Mulligan.

O sweet Kitty, you're so witty,
 softly cried brave Captain Mulligan;
O sweet Kitty, pretty witty Kitty,
 Pity poor Captain Mulligan!

When married, how they alter’d their'tune!
 Love, once so fierce, faith, soon grows cool again;
When that they had pass’d the sweet honeymoon,
 She blacken'd the eyes of Captain Mulligan.

Whisky tippling night and day;
Scolding, fighting him, horns affrighting him!
Oh! be easy now—troth you’re crazy now!
 The jeuce be with you, then, Mrs. Mulligan.

 Faith I knew it, I would rue it
  Sadly, cried brave Captain Mulligan:
You’re my cruel—cruel jewel!
  killing, milling Mrs. Mulligan.