Val Doonican - Paddy McGlnty's Goat (with lyrics) video free download

Val Doonican ... what can you say about him? ... a singer from Eire who took T.V. by storm in 1964 for twenty years ... dressed in his cardigan and sitting in his rocking chair... Rock on Val

The story of a goat to beat all goats

I have pasted the lyrics for those interested ...

Paddy McGinty's Goat

(Bert Lee, R P Weston)

Now Patrick McGinty, an Irishman of note

Fell in for a fortune and he bought himself a goat

Says he: "Sure of goat's milk I'm going to have me fill"

But when he brought the Nanny home he found it was a Bill

All the young ladies who live in Killaloo

They're all wearing bustles like their mothers used to do

They each wear a bolster beneath their petticoat

And leave the rest to providence and Paddy McGinty's goat

Missis Burke to her daughter said: "Listen Mary Jane

Who was the man you were cuddling in the lane?

He'd long wiry whiskers a hanging from his chin"

"'Twas only Pat McGinty's goat", she answer'd with a grin

She went away from the village in disgrace

She came back with powder and paint on her face

She'd rings on her fingers, she wore a sable coat

You bet your life she didn't get those from Paddy McGinty's goat

Now Norah McCarthy the knot was goin' to tie

She washed out her trousseau and hung it out to dry

Along came the goat and he saw the bits of white

And chewed up all her falderals, and on her wedding night

"Oh, turn out the light quick", she shouted out to Pat

For though l'm your bride, sure l'm not worth looking at

I had two of ev'rything, I told you when I wrote

But now I've one of nothing all thro' Paddy McGinty's goat

Mickey Riley he went to the races t'other day

He won twenty dollars and shouted: "Hip Hooray!"

He held up the note shouting: "Look at what I've got!"

The goat came up and grabbed at it and swallowed up the lot

"He's eaten my banknote", says Mickey with the hump

They went for the doctor and they got a stomach pump

They pumped and they pumped for the twenty dollar note

But all they got was ninepence out of Paddy McGinty's goat

Now ould Paddy's goat had a wondrous appetite

And one day for breakfast he had some dynamite

A big box of matches he swallowed all serene

Then out he went and swallowed up a quart of paraffin

He sat by the fireside, he didn't give a hang

He swallowed a spark and exploded with a bang

So if you go to heaven you can bet a dollar note

That angel with the whiskers on is Paddy McGinty's goat