#231 - $15 In My Inside Pocket

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• Composer:
  • Harry (William Henry) Kennedy

    • #231 - $15 In My Inside Pocket
    • #1019 - Molly and I and the Baby

    (c1855-1894)¹⁾, 1885
• Also known as:
  • I Had $15.00 In My Inside Pocket
  • I Had Fifteen Dollars In My Inside Pocket
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• Lyrics:
  I'm an Irishman now don't mind that,
  For you can't play tag with Paddy Flynn
  In the fourteenth ward I claim my how'ld
  But the gang they play'd me for a skin,
  The said that they'd make me Alderman,
  Then they took me 'round to see Red Bill,
  We were drinking rye-and-rock, till four o'clock,
  And they made me pony up for all the swill.
  
  chorus:
  I had fifteen dollars in my inside pocket,
  Don't you see, to me it is a warning.
  Saturday night I made a call
  On a friend of Tam'ny Hall
  And the divil a cent I had on Sunday morning.
  
  Oh, the gang they hung around the bar,
  Like a swarm of educated mice,
  Oh they made me drink a “clarinette” punch
  And a whiskey “Sangaree” on ice,
  They stood me on my head, when my wealth gave out,
  Then they hung me on a fence to dry,
  In the early morning light, for'ninst Judge White,
  These words to him I plaintively did cry.
  
  
  • Harry (William Henry) Kennedy

    • #231 - $15 In My Inside Pocket
    • #1019 - Molly and I and the Baby

    (c1855-1894), 1885