| Show I A r t gal! fake gtfibtme magazine' MAR 16 1930 '! AND At HAVE YE heard the heresy they’re far and wide — Which is that no St Patrick ever did in Erin bide? That he is but a myth to fool the simple souls of men — A legend never there in truth and ne’er will be again '’Tradition’s all he is” the scoundrels say ’’and not a fact Oh wurra wurra that we’d live to hear such falsehoods quacked! For if St Patrick was a fake who drove the serpents out? Who set the shamrocks in the fields? The wisest could not doubt Who made the Druids’ horrid rites a torment and a shame? Whose monicker is saved today in many an Irish name You may as well convince me that the banshee wails no more Or that the fairies have deserted Shannon’s wandering shore From Smerwick on the west to Ballyholbert the The Little People sure on sea will weep to hear this heresy There wasn’t any Patrick? Then there is no me and you! But no gobd Irishman believes a thought that is not true Jl So let each shaittrockcd gillie w ith his pert bright-eye- d colleen Sti tit forth St Patrick’s moinin’ to be nearin’ of the green |
