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Now Dinny O’Rafferty’s motor car

Is the greatest I declare

It’s made up of bits and pieces

That he’s picked up here and there

The engine must be ages old

But it’s still got lots of power

With a gallon of stout in the petrol tank

It does ninety miles an hour.

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What a wonderful motor car

It’s the greatest ever seen

It used to be black as me father’s hat

Now it’s forty shades of green

On TV and the radio

And in every public bar

The burning question of the day

Is O’Rafferty’s motor car.

Now two of the wheels are triangular

And the third one’s off a pram

The fourth is the last remaining wheel

From off a Dublin tram

The numberplate’s in Gaelic

And the plug’s won’t even spark

And the chassis came off a tinker’s cart

That collapsed in Phoenix Park.

Now go for a ride in that motor car

And you’ll end up with the shakes

The road from Cork to Dublin

Is a vale of pains and aches

When traffic lights turn red ahead

Then you’d best jump out the door

For the moment Dinny treads on the brakes

His foot goes through the floor.

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Now if you could see the upholstery

Your eyes would start to pop

It’s nothing but empty beer crates

With a load of sacks on top

The windscreen’s gone to Lord knows where

And there’s a mothball in the horn

And I reckon he’d only get half a quid

If he took it to the pawn.

Now Dinny was driving around last week

When the engine did the splits

It went up in smoke and nearly blew

O’Connel Street to bits

They searched around for Dinny and found

That he’d landed up by heck

Away on top of the GPO

With his L-plates round his neck.

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