{"id":8416,"date":"2022-08-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2022-08-22T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T05:00:00","slug":"da-fightin-irishman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/da-fightin-irishman\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Fightin\u2019 Irishman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1914-08-22\/ed-1\/seq-9\/\">Newark Evening Star, August 22, 1914<\/a>. by Thomas Daly.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Irishman he mak\u2019 me seeck!<br\/>He ees gat excite so queeck,<br\/>An\u2019 so queeck for fightin\u2019, too;<br\/>An\u2019, besides, you nevva know<br\/>How you gonna please heem. So<br\/>W\u2019ata deuce you gona do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>W\u2019en I work een tranch wan day<br\/>Irish boss he com\u2019 an\u2019 say:<br\/>\u201cEvra wan een deesa tranch,<br\/>I no care eef he ees Franch,<br\/>Anglaice, Dago, Dootch or w\u2019at,<br\/>Evra wan\u2019 he musta gat<br\/>Leetla piece green to show<br\/>For da San Patricio.<br\/>Dees ees Irish feasta day.<br\/>Go an\u2019 gat som\u2019 green!\u201d he say,<br\/>\u201cAn\u2019 eef you no do eet, too,<br\/>I gon\u2019 poncha head on you!\u201d<br\/>So I gat som\u2019 green to show<br\/>For da San Patricio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Bimeby, \u2018nudder Irishman<br\/>He ees com\u2019 where I am stan\u2019,<br\/>An\u2019 growl at me an\u2019 say:<br\/>\u201cW\u2019at you wearin\u2019 dat for, eh?<br\/>Mebbe so you theenk you be<br\/>Gooda Irishman like me.<br\/>Green ees jus\u2019 for Irishman,<br\/>No for dumb Eyetalian!<br\/>Tak\u2019 eet off!\u201d he say, an\u2019, my!<br\/>He ees ponch me een da eye!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Irishman he mak\u2019 me seeck,<br\/>He ees gat excite\u2019 so queeck,<br\/>An\u2019 so queeck for fightin\u2019, too;<br\/>An\u2019, besides, you nevva know<br\/>How you gona please heem. So<br\/>W\u2019ata deuce you gona do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, August 22, 1914. by Thomas Daly. Irishman he mak\u2019 me seeck!He ees gat excite so queeck,An\u2019 so queeck for fightin\u2019, too;An\u2019, besides, you nevva knowHow you gonna please heem. SoW\u2019ata deuce you gona do? W\u2019en I work een tranch wan dayIrish boss he com\u2019 an\u2019 say:\u201cEvra wan een deesa tranch,I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-8416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-thomas-daly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}