Well, I met a little man from Dublin.
He was green as green could be.
If you measured him, he'd be pressed
to come up to a grasshopper's knee-hee-hee.
I said, "Leprechaun, where're you going?"
He said, "Come, and follow me.
At the end of yonder rainbow
Lies a pot of gold for me-hee-hee."
I said, "I've seen lots of rainbows
And their end was never in sight.
He replied,"Just close your eyes and
Say these words with all your mi-hi-hight:
"Slip, pop, golly-wopple,
Plip, sop, wolly-gopple,
Shamrock shah, and Erin go braugh!
Shamrock shah, and Erin go braugh!"
I did exactly as he told me.
Shortly then, to my surprise,
There appeared a pot of gold
No bigger than a leprechaun's eye-hye-hyes.
The little green man gave a little green laugh
And handed me a little green shoe.
Quick as a wink, he stole the gold and
Slipped away into the dew-hew-hew."
Thinking myself pretty clever,
The next time a rainbow appeared,
I closed my eyes and said with all my
Might these words that sound so weird:
"Slip, pop, golly-wopple,
Plip, sop, wolly-gopple,
Shamrock shah, and Erin go braugh!
Shamrock shah, and Erin go braugh!"
When I looked, no gold appeared,
But in its place the leprechaun had put
Tiny little shoes of green, no bigger than a leprechaun's foot!