[Intro]
Right chaps, right chaps, simmer down, simmer down now chappers,
Now right right follow me one, two, three, four,
Just a second, just a second, mr. man now,
What in the name of Mariah Delaney is going on,
Listen, wait a minute, fellas behind me,
Nobody starts that song like that,
Right are yous with me, in our own language we've got to do it,
Your, your behind me, right stop pushing, now wait a minute,
A haon, a dó, a trí, ah good old Paddy the stranger there.

[Verse]
Well, I started a Irish language class a little while ago,
And we got lessons twice a week but I fear I'm very slow,
A fluent Gaelic speaker, I'm intended for to be,
Still here's about all the Gaelic they could hammer into me.

[Chorus]
Ó cad é mar atá tú? How are you? Sin ceart means that's right,
Tá mé go maith, I'm very well and oíche mhaith's goodnight,
Ó cad é an t-am? Is what's the time? And níl fhios agam is I don't know,
At least that's what they taught me, but you know I'm very slow.

[Verse]
Well, I met the mayor of Dublin in the street the other day,
"Cad é mar atá tú, a chara?" I merrily did say,
He started talking Irish till me poor head did explode,
Says I, "I'm very sorry sir but this is all I know."

[Chorus]
Ó cad é mar atá tú? How are you? Sin ceart means that's right,
Tá mé go maith, I'm very well and oíche mhaith's goodnight,
Ó cad é an t-am? Is what's the time? And níl fhios agam is I don't know,
At least that's what they taught me, but you know I'm very slow.

[Verse]
I'd a face the adjudicator, at me looked stern and grim,
He asked me twenty questions but not one I answered him, (We don't believe ya.)
Oh, he asked me this and he asked me that, then in despair he cried,
"Do ya know any Irish at all, at all", and proudly I replied.

[Chorus]
Ó cad é mar atá tú? How are you? Sin ceart means that's right,
Tá mé go maith, I'm very well and oíche mhaith's goodnight,
Ó cad é an t-am? Is what's the time? And níl fhios agam is I don't know,
At least that's what they taught me, but you know I'm very slow.

[Verse]
Well, someday with the help of God and a wee bit a studying too,
I'll pass that for me Fainne and this is what I'll do,
I'll have my own wee Irish class and I'll say "Now is éistigí,
Fanaigí ciúin and le bhur dtoil and say this after me".

[Chorus]
Ó cad é mar atá tú? How are you? Sin ceart means that's right,
Tá mé go maith, I'm very well and oíche mhaith's goodnight,
Ó cad é an t-am? Is what's the time? And níl fhios agam is I don't know,
And that's the way I'll teach them for you know they're very slow.

[Outro]
Yes indeed, yes indeed, I'd just like to ask you one question,
An bhfuil cead agam dul amach a maith dtí a halla,
Get out of, listen here you, you better watch you mouth or else I will dtí-vower you,
I'm not kidding you, Paddy come over here and tell this fella what you think of him,
Get out of that you dirty of hoor ya, (What are you talking about),
You know nothing you clown, for sure you haven't even a thought,
Get out of it now, I'm telling you if I only catch ya, oh, my God, look what that fella did,
Now that's telling Paddy, goodluck to yous all fellas, come, come on in the fuck.