O'Rafferty's Motor Car

O'Rafferty's Motor Car - Val Doonigan

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

Rom 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

What a wonderful 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 oh

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

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 oh

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