Black Irish Girls Lyrics

I don't wanna go to Ireland

Because it scares me so

Not the bombers or the Protestants

Or the Catholics in white bows

Black Irish girls

Their linens and curls

And their jack-eyed mothers

Wearing blackened pearls

Black Irish girls

Keep away from me

Keep your northern tans

Keep it all a mystery

Mick gypsies, mick gypsies

Scare me so

My mother's father was born in Italy

But he swore it was all perfidy

Said his people were really Portuguese

Horse thieves who swam the Tyrrhenian Sea

It's blue and cold and rotten with sharks

That's the sea where the four winds blow

My grandfather said in a side remark

That they hang horse thieves but let murderers go

Black Irish girls

Their linens and curls

And their jack-eyed mothers

Wearing blackened pearls

Black Irish girls

Keep away from me

Keep your northern tans

Keep it all a mystery

Mick gypsies, mick gypsies

Scare me so

I'm not fearful of Italians

Though there's plenty there to suit

Hot tempers and opera and poor saints

And the fascists and that boot

And I'm no full-blood Irishman

I'm three-quarters—plus that wop

That's quite enough of the emerald tone

I'm an American mutt – full-stop

Black Irish girls

Their linens and curls

And their jack-eyed mothers

Wearing blackened pearls

Black Irish girls

Keep away from me

Keep your northern tans

Keep it all a mystery

Mick gypsies, mick gypsies

Scare me so