Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1918 — SHAME ON YE, PAT O’BRIEN! [ARTICLE]

SHAME ON YE, PAT O’BRIEN!

The following poem, dedicated to Patrick O’Brien, Momence, HL, aviator, who escaped from a German prison camp, was written by Roland Rothrone, of the Clinton, lowa, Herald: Shame on y.e, Pat O l ßrien! . ‘Twas a mean trick ye did— Ye wint and left the kaiser flat And divil a wurrud we s’id! ’Twill break O’Leary’s trusting heart To think a man named Pat Would give a dear old friend of his The Irish slip like that! We know about your monkeyshines. Faith, and it’s common chat The rows ye raised among the clouds—’Twas mean—‘twas all o’ that! Ye had a hod filled wid bombs And let the contints fall, And niver had the sinse to yell, • . “Look out below!” at all.

And whin the Germans put ye in That private railroad car Ye didn’t say a wurrud o’ thanks— Ungrateful man ye are! For whin the willin’ porter Took wan minute on his job Ye wint and smashed the windy glass, And out ye wint, be gob! Ye didn’t even stop to tell Von Hindenburg good-by, Or talk on how ye liked the place, An’ this an’ that, or why The Irish don’t appreciate The man he’s workin’ for Ye stuck your dudeen in your phiz And sashayed out the door! Ye /ooled the German soldiers Wid the goose-step, we suppose, And waved them all a bold salute Wid a hand forninst yer nose, A sausage underneath your arm An’ on your hip a brick— Oh, bucko! 'Twas an Irish And unhyphenated trick! —Roland Rathbone in the Clinton (Iowa) Herald.