Darby O’Gill
The Big, Strong Man
Have you heard about the big, strong man? (What man?)
He lives in a caravan (Caravan?)
Have you heard about the Jeffries-Johnson fight
Oh Lord, what a hell of a fight
You can take all the heavyweights you got (What you got?)
We’ve got a man who can beat the whole lot (Whole lot?)
He used to work here as a doorman
Now he’s goin’ to fight George Foreman
That’s me brother, Sylvest’ (What’s he got?)
He’s got a row of forty medals on his chest (Big Chest!)
He killed fifty vermin in the west
He knows no rest
Hell of a man (Hell’s fire!)
Don’t push (Just shove)
Plenty room for you and me
He’s got an arm like a leg (Ladies’ leg)
And a punch that could sink a battleship (Bullshit!)
1: It takes all the army and the navy to put the wind up Sylvest’
2: It takes all the army and the navy to knock the block off Sylvest’
3: It takes all the army and the navy to take the bra off Mae West
He thought that he’d go to Italy (Italy?)
And he thought that he’d go by sea (I see)
So he jumped off the harbor in New York
And he swam like a man o’ Cork
He saw the Lusitania in distress (What’d he do?)
He put the Lusitania on his chest (Big Chest!)
Then he drank all the water in the sea
And he walked all the way to Italy
He thought that he’d go to old Japan (Old Japan)
So they brought out the whole brass band (Brass band)
He played every instrument they got
Like a lad he beat the whole lot
The old church choir did sing (Sing song)
And the old church bells did ring (Ding dong)
And they all turned out to say farewell
To my big brother, Sylvest’