THE WAY WE TELL A STORY ( or 'no' says the Irishman)

Says I to him, I says, says I,

Says I to him, I says,

The thing, says I, I says to him,

Is just, says I, this ways.

I hev', says I, a gret respeck

For you and for your breed,

And onything I could, I says,

I'd do, I wud indeed.

I don't know any man, I says,

I'd do it for, says I,

As fast, I says, as for yoursel'

That's tellin' ye no lie.

There's nought, says I, I wudn't do

To plase your feyther's son,

But this, I says, ye see, says I,

I says, it can't be done

(Pat McCarty 1851-1931)