
Besides being performed in Cohan's 1908 musical
Fifty Miles
from Boston it was performed in the James Cagney 1942 film
Yankee Doodle
Dandy about Cohan. |
Verse 1: Who is the man who will spend or
will even lend?
Harrigan, That's Me!
Who is your friend when you find that you need a friend?
Harrigan, That's Me!
For I'm just as proud of my name you see,
As an Emperor, Czar or a King, could be.
Who is the man helps a man every time he can?
Harrigan, That's Me!
Chorus: H - A - double R - I - G - A - N
spells Harrigan
Proud of all the Irish blood that's in me; Divil a man can say a word agin
me.
H - A - double R - I - G - A - N, you see,
Is a name that a shame never has been connected with, Harrigan, That's me!
Verse 2: Who is the man never stood for a gad
about?
Harrigan, That's Me!
Who is the man that the town's simply mad about?
Harrigan, That's Me!
The ladies and babies are fond of me,
I'm fond of them, too, in return, you see.
Who is the gent that's deserving a monument?
Harrigan, That's Me!
Chorus: H - A - double R - I - G - A - N
spells Harrigan
Proud of all the Irish blood that's in me; Divil a man can say a word agin
me.
H - A - double R - I - G - A - N, you see,
Is a name that a shame never has been connected with, Harrigan, That's me!
|