McBeen's Heifer

McBeen's Heifer - John Roche

Written by： Percy French

McBreen had two daughters and each one in turn

Was offered in marriage to Jamesy O'Burn

Now Kitty was pretty but Jane she was plain

So to make up the differ McBreen would explain

He'd give the best heifer he had on the land

As a sort of a bonus with Jane understand

But then Kitty would charrum a bird off a bush

And that left the lad in a horrid non-plush

Now there's no denyin' Kitty was remarkably pretty

Tho' I can't say the same for Jane

But still there's not the differ of the price of a heifer

Between the pretty and the plain

Entirely bothered was Jamsey O'Burn

He thought that he'd give the schoolmaster a turn

Sez he to wed Kitty is very good fun

Still a heifer's a heifer when all's said an' done

A girl she might lose her good looks anyhow

And a heifer might grow to an elegant cow

But still there's no price for the stock d'ye mind

And Jane has a face that the Divil designed

Still there's no denyin' Kitty was remarkably pretty

Tho' I can't say the same for Jane

But still there's not the differ of the price of a heifer

Between the pretty and the plain

The schoolmaster said with a good deal of sinse

We'll reduce the two girls to shillin's an' pence

Add the price of the heifer then Jane I'll be bound

Will come out on top by a couple o' pound

But still I'm forgettin' that down in Glengall

The stock is just goin' for nothin' at all

So Jim thought he'd wait till the end of the year

Till girls might be cheaper or stock might be dear

But when he came for Kitty

She was married to McGinty

And McGee had appropriated Jane

So whether there's the differ

Of the price of a heifer

Was a thing that he never could explain