[Verse]
Here's a health to me mother in law now,
I ne'er at the fair saw her yet,
You blaggard, don't drink a drop with me,
Your conduct I'll never forget.

My money you freely have squandered,
Treated me rarely there now,
Drank both me goose and me gander,
And tonight you'll be drinking me cow.

[Chorus]
Oh, Táim in arrears, in arrears,
Táim in arrears in dti on ol,
Táim in arrears, in arrears,
And I'm feared I'll not pay evermore.

[Verse]
I'm a fellow without any shame, now,
Without a good name to report,
That would say to his darling wife's mother,
He'd still carry on in this sort.

I surely must travel through Erin,
Take to the road till I die,
And as on me way I'll be faring
You'll still hear me neighbours all cry.

[Chorus]
Oh, Táim in arrears, in arrears,
Táim in arrears in dti on ol,
Táim in arrears, in arrears,
And I'm feared I'll not pay evermore.

[Verse]
I'd give you of cows a full twenty,
Of calves I would give you a score,
I'd give you me money in plenty,
If you'd promise to drink here no more.

A thousand good cows you can give me,
Ten acres, a million or more,
I did swear to give over me drinking,
I'd still pay a call to this door.

[Chorus]
Táim in arrears, in arrears,
Táim in arrears i dti on ol,
Táim in arrears, in arrears,
And I'm feared I'll not pay evermore.

[Verse]
There's a band of grey mud round me hat now,
In my coat there is many a tear,
Like a string is me old caravat now,
And, oh, me poor wig is thread-bare.

I'll buy me a shining new jacket,
A wig that's all powdered galore,
And I'll kick up a mighty fine racket,
When I come into money once more.

[Chorus]
Táim in arrears, in arrears,
Táim in arrears i dti on ol,
Táim in arrears, in arrears,
And I'm feared I'll not pay evermore.