“Mr Dunne”

( a Song of the Dunne Family)

I once was well acquainted, with a man called Mr. Dunne,

A very jolly man was he, and full of harmless fun.

He courted young and married was, when he was 21,

And soon a big long family, had Mr. and Mrs. Dunne.

 

(chorus)

For there was a high Dunne, low Dunne, underdone and overdone,

And the other younger Dunnes, in and out did run.

There was old Dunne and young Dunne, and Dunne’s youngest son,

And young Dunne will be the Dunne, when the old Dunne’s done.

 

In course of time the youngest Dunne, he took himself a wife,

And when he did he found he had the hardest fight for life.

To keep six little bellies full, and a wife who weighed twelve stone,

Why any man who could do that! You ought to say well done.

When Mrs. Dunne presented Dunne with their first bouncing son,

She named it Joseph Henry Dunne, but called it cherry bun.

But when as thick as hops they run, ere many years were done,

Says Mrs. Dunne to Mr. Dunne, “More bread or we’ll be done”.

Well here’s good luck to the oldest Dunne, likewise to the youngest Dunne,

Let’s hope the youngest Dunne’ll do as the oldest Dunne has done.

For every Dunne to be a Dunne, and not a vacant one,

“Whats done” says Dunne, “should be well done”, so well done, good old Dunne!

(author unknown)