(Verse)
"Where did ye get that hat?" folks ask me every day
"Isn't it a nifty one?" you often hear them say
Put it on, it's funny, can't ye see the people smile?
It keeps me busy tellin' them the history of this tile

(Chorus)
It's the hat me dear old father wore upon St. Patrick's Day
Now talk about respect
With his head erect
As he marched down old Broadway
"Sure not a man in line
Looked half as fine,"
Me dear old mother used to say
"As your father did
In this old-time lid
Upon St. Patrick's Day."

(Chorus)
It's the hat me dear old father wore upon St. Patrick's Day
Now talk about respect
With his head erect
As he marched down old Broadway
"Sure not a man in line
Looked half as fine,"
Me dear old mother used to say
"As your father did
In this old-time lid
Upon St. Patrick's Day."