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"It's A Long Way To Tipperary" started out in 1912 as a music hall song, written by Jack Judge and Harry Williams.
Two years later, a Daily Mail reporter heard it being sung by the Connaught Rangers (who had connections with Tipperary town) in France. It was recorded by
John Mc Cormack that same year. Pretty soon, the whole world knew about it.
It was covered by the Red Army and it featured in Das Boot (the crew of the submarine sang it). It got to number 66 in the BBC's
Songs of the Century, just behind "Strawberry Fields Forever" - beaten by the best!
Read all about it here.
If you type "It's a long way to Tipperary" into Google, you'll get about 36,600 results!
There is also another musical hall song called 'Tipperary', written in 1907. You can read and listen to it here.
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Lyrics
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Up to mighty London came
An Irish lad one day,
All the streets were paved with gold,
So everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly,
Strand, and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited and
He shouted to them there:
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in "spelling",
Molly dear", said he,
"Remember it's the pen, that's bad,
Don't lay the blame on me".
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Molly wrote a neat reply
To Irish Paddy O',
Saying, "Mike Maloney wants
To marry me, and so
Leave the Strand and Piccadilly,
Or you'll be to blame,
For love has fairly drove me silly,
Hoping you're the same!"
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
