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Writer\/composer<\/td>Lester Barrett<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN34686<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Lester Barrett<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Lovett, Tom ; Ireland : Co. Kerry; 1982
Merdith, John; Australia : New South Wales; 1985<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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There's murder in the atmosphere,\nThere's earthquakes in the air;\nPat Hooligan, last Thursday,\nBought a mule down at the fair.\nWhen he tried to put it in the shafts,\nIt smashed the cart to bits.\nIt chewed up all the harness,\nAnd gave all the neighbours fits.\n\nOh, Hooligan, if ever you buy a mule a-gin,\nYou ought to be shot, you've gone off your dot,\nYou are a stupid fool.\nIt's killed a lot of people off,\nKicked the top of the steeple off;\nIf you want to die quick, just get a kick,\nFrom Patsy Hooligan's mule.<\/em>\n\nThey tried their best to coax the brute,\nInside the stable door,\nThey coaxed it with a crow-bar,\nTill the poor old mule was sore;\nThen Hogan said that kindness\nTo and animal was best;\nHe commenced to stroke the mule and now,\nHogan's gone to rest.\n\nHe chewed up all the tramway lines,\nHe smashed in all the roofs;\nHe killed a dozen p'licemen\nWith his eighty one tonne hoofs.\nWe held a public meeting\nDown at Micky Doolan's school,\nTo discuus the best and safest way\nTo kill that murdering mule.\n\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A Music Hall song from the late 1890s, popular throughout the English speaking world. Whilst the song mocks Irish stereotypes it seems to have been popular amongst members of the Irish  diaspora and it passed into Irish and Australian traditional singing.  It was originally written and performed by Lester Barrett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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