Poxy Boggards - Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake lyrics

As I sat in me window one evening A letterman came unto me With a nice little gilt invitation Saying "Gilhooley come over for tea". I knew that the Fogarties sent it, So I went for old friendship's sake, But the first thing they gave me to tackle Was a piece of Miss Fogarty's cake. Chorus: There were plums and prunes and berries, Raisins and currants and cinnamon too! There were nuts and cloves and cherries, And a crust that was nailed on with glue! There were caraway seeds in abundance That would give you a fine stomach ache That would k** a man twice after eating a slice Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake! Miss Mulligan wanted to taste it, But really there wasn't no use, For they worked at it over an hour And couldn't get none of it loose Till Murphy he went for the hatchet And Kelly came in with a saw. That cake was enough by the powers above For to paralyze any man's jaw. Chorus Miss Fogarty, proud as a peaco*k, Kept smiling and blinking away Till she tripped over Flanagan's brogans And spilled a whole brewing of tea. "Oh, Gilhooley", she cried, "you're not eating! Try a little bit more for my sake!" "No, thank you", says I, "I've no courage to try To force down any more of that cake." Chorus Maloney was took with the colic, McNaulty complained of his head, O'Donnell lay down on the sofa And swore that he wished he was dead. Miss Bailey fell down in hysterics And her legs, they did wriggle and shake And everyone swore they were poisoned Just from eating Miss Fogarty's cake. Chorus Though the taste is seductive, it makes me refluxive: Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake.