John McCormack - It's A Long Way To Tipperary

John McCormack - It's A Long Way To Tipperary. This famous world war I British anthem was first recorded by John McCormack(1884-1945) in 1914 with the VICTOR recording label.Several versions of the song were performed later by various singers.
It became one of the most popular anthems sung by soldiers on the way to the Western Front during the early enthusiasm of summer 1914, the song was written by Jack Judge and Harry Williams some two years earlier in 1912. Lyrics are as follows
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Up to mighty London came
An Irish man one day,
All the streets were paved with gold,
So everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly,
Strand, and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited and
He shouted to them there:
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in "spelling",
Molly dear", said he,
"Remember it's the pen, that's bad,
Don't lay the blame on me".
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Molly wrote a neat reply
To Irish Paddy O',
Saying, "Mike Maloney wants
To marry me, and so
Leave the Strand and Piccadilly,
Or you'll be to blame,
For love has fairly drove me silly,
Hoping you're the same!"
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Extra wartime verse
That's the wrong way to tickle Mary,
That's the wrong way to kiss!
Don't you know that over here, lad,
They like it best like this!
Hooray pour le Francais!
Farewell, Angleterre!
We didn't know the way to tickle Mary,
But we learned how, over there!

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[andresrojas22]

"Paddy wrote a letter

To his Irish Molly O',

Saying, "Should you not receive it,

Write and let me know!" LOL

[CptainGarmaZabi]

@maxiboy666 We Imperialist Germans are not Huns >.> Enough with your silly Propaganda, We fought with Honor....Well you did aswell my English Friends :P

[srka42]

This better be in Bioshock: Infinite.

[CGamer64]

@woobiehastelly It is creepy, I would love to walk down a empty city in ruins listening to this song! with ZOMBIES!

[woobiehastelly]

@CGamer64 Definitely. This stuff just seems so eerie. Not bad though!

[CGamer64]

@woobiehastelly Its history, still better then adele and justin beiber

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@TheTruthSeek WTF

[woobiehastelly]

This song is fucking creepy.

[outsidemendham]

Ayn Rand loved this song.

[eedobee]

Old music is fine, but people who hark on about its qualities whilst bagging modern music are dickheads. Douchebaggery of the highest order.

[mrrodebeer]

if you love the history of the first world war , you have to vissit the talbot house in the belgium city poperinge. this was the place where the soldiers of the first world war came to recover and return to the front of ieper

[drugdealer911]

i soo love this song