[Verse]
Oh, me name is Mick McGuire and I quickly tell to you,
Of a girl that I admired, she's Katy Donahue,
Ah, she's fair and fat and forty and believe me when I say,
everytime I go a courting you can hear her mother say

[Chorus]
"Johnny, get up from the fire, get up and give your man a seat,
Can't you see it's Mr. McGuire and he's courting your sister Kate,
You know very well he owns a farm, a wee bit out of the town,
Will you get out of that, you impudent brat, and let Mr McGuire sit down."

[Chorus]
"Johnny, get up from the fire, get up and give your man a seat,
Can't you see it's Mr. McGuire and he's courting your sister Kate,
You know very well he owns a farm, a wee bit out of the town,
Will you get out of that, you impudent brat, and let Mr McGuire sit down."

[Verse]
The first time that I met her was a pattern at Tralee,
And I asked her very kindly would she dance a step for me,
She asked me for to leave her home and have with her some tay,
No sooner we got in the door and you could hear her mother say.

[Chorus]
"Johnny, get up from the fire, get up and give your man a seat,
Can't you see it's Mr. McGuire and he's courting your sister Kate,
You know very well he owns a farm, a wee bit out of the town,
Will you get out of that, you impudent brat, and let Mr McGuire sit down."

[Chorus]
"Johnny, get up from the fire, get up and give your man a seat,
Can't you see it's Mr. McGuire and he's courting your sister Kate,
You know very well he owns a farm, a wee bit out of the town,
Will you get out of that, you impudent brat, and let Mr McGuire sit down."

[Verse]
Ah, but now that we are married sure, her mothers changed her mind,
Because I spent the legacy me father left behind,
She doesn't have the decency to give me time of day,
And whenever I come through the door you can hear her old one say.

[Chorus]
"Johnny, come up from the fire, come up, you're sitting in the draft,
Can't you see it's old McGuire and he nearly drives me daft,
I don't know what gets into him, he's always on the tare,
Will you sit where you are and never you dare, give old McGuire the chair."

[Chorus]
"Johnny, come up from the fire, come up, you're sitting in the draft,
Can't you see it's old McGuire and he nearly drives me daft,
I don't know what gets into him, he's always on the tare,
Will you sit where you are and never you dare, give old McGuire the chair.".