O'rafferty's Motor Car

O'rafferty's Motor Car - The Hit Co.

Now Dinny O'Rafferty's motor car is the greatest I

Declare

It's made up of bits and pieces that he's picked up

Here and there

The engine must be ages old but it's still got lots of

Power

With a gallon of stout in the petrol tank it does

Ninety miles an hour

What a wonderful motor car it's the greatest ever seen

It used to be black as me father's hat now it's forty

Shades of green

On TV and the radio and in every public bar

The burning question of the day is O'Rafferty's motor

Car

Now two of the wheels are triangular and the third

One's off a pram

The fourth is the last remaining wheel from off a

Dublin tram

The number plate's in Gaelic and the plug's won't even

Spark

And the chassis came off a tinker's cart that collapsed

In Phoenix Park

Now go for a ride in that motor car and you'll end up

With the shakes

The road from Cork to Dublin is a vale of pains and

Aches

When traffic lights turn red ahead then you'd best

Jump out the door

For the moment that Dinny treads on the break then his

Foot goes through the floor

What a wonderful motor car it's the greatest ever seen

It used to be black as me father's hat now it's forty

Shades of green

On TV and the radio and in every public bar

The burning question of the day is O'Rafferty's motor

Car

Now if you could see the upholstery then your eyes

Would start to pop

It's nothing but empty beer crates with a load of sacks

On top

The windscreen's gone to Lord knows where and there's

Mothballs in the horn

And I reckon he'd only get half a quid if he took it to

The pawn

Now Dinny was driving around last week when the engine

Did the splits

It went up in smoke and nearly blew O'Connell Street to

Bits

They searched around for Dinny and found that he'd

Landed up by heck

Away on top of the GPO with his L-plates round his neck

What a wonderful motor car it's the greatest ever seen

It used to be black as me father's hat now it's forty

Shades of green

On TV and the radio and in every public bar

The burning question of the day is O'Rafferty's motor

Car