Great song!...however...I prefer Great Big Sea version...Love Irish folk music of any kind...Especially Darby O' Gill...that being said...Great Big Sea offers a more modern approach to it...=)
The version that I listen to normally doesn't have the last verse about Paddy being a sonofabitch, and so it is a very different song. I actually think that it detracts from the song, as without that verse this seems more like a song about having a funeral for a friend the way he would have wanted it, with mirth and no small amount of drinking.
+Zaq Swanson The last verse was written by Scott Messer, the lead singer of Darby O'Gill. He writes verses/adaptations to a lot of traditional songs. I like this one better! Kind of shows that everyone could even enjoy the funeral of someone nobody liked! As long as liquor was involved, at least!
