THE NONRETURNABLE YANK (Paul O’Brien)
A true story that happened to the band (Cloghane) while on a field trip to Doolin.
We once met a man from Idaho
We asked him to leave, but he didn’t want to go
I’ll tell you the story every word is true,
Idaho and I’d a hoe too.
We were sitting in the kitchen by the old turf fire
The girls were singing just like a choir
In came a Yank and said “How do you do?”
He was singing along to beat the band
But then he started getting out of hand
With yells and whoops he hadn’t a clue
He sang us a song of Mother Macree
And looking for his roots over the sea
We wanted to flush him down the loo
One of the lads said “You’ve stayed too long,
And you’re so weak and I’m so strong,
We’re leaving now without ado”
Well he moaned and cried just like a child,
Lost his composure, went really wild,
We had to show him the billiard cue,
Three days later we’re in the ‘plane
Theo didn’t know what the Yank was saying
We all had a laugh with the cabin crew,