Sheridan Rúitín - Mrs. Fogarty's Christmas Cake

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Billy Houlihan - Banjo/Vocals
Johnny Houlihan - Melodeon/Vocals
Shannon Cokeley - Guitar/Vocals
Tommy Ma - Bodhran/Vocals
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As I sat in my window last evening,
A letterman brought it to me,
A little gilt-edged invitation sayin',
Gilhooley come over to tea,
Each Christmas, the Fogartys' sent it,
So I went just for old friendships sake,
And the first thing they gave me to tackle,
Was a slice of Miss Fogarty's cake.

And there were plums and prunes and cherries,
There were citrons and raisins and cinnamon, too,
There was nuts, and cloves and berries,
And the crust, it was nailed on with glue,
There were caraway seeds in abundance,
Sure 'twould work up a fine stomach ache,
It would kill a man twice after eating a slice,
Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake.

Miss Mulligan wanted to try it,
But really it wasn't no use,
For we worked in it over an hour,
But a piece of it wouldn't come loose,
Till Kelly came in with a hatchet,
And Murphy came in with a saw,
But Miss Fogerty's cake had the power,
To paralyze any man's jaw.

Miss Fogarty proud as a peacock,
Kept smiling and talkin' away,
'Till she tripped over Flanagan's brogans,
And she spilt the homebrew in her tea,
Aye Gilhooley she says you're not eatin,
Try a little bit more of me cake,
Oh no Miss Fogarty said I,
Any more and my stomach would break.

Maloney was sick with the colic,
O'Donnell had pain in his head,
McNulty lay down on the sofa,
And he swore that he wished he was dead,
Miss Bailey went into hysterics,
And there she did wriggle and shake,
And all of us swore we were poisoned,
From eating Miss Fogarty's cake.
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Filmed by Rosie Houlihan on a Motorola cell phone.