Oh Dermot you look so pleasant now Your clothes look neat and clean I haven’t seen you drink a drop Pray tell me where you’ve been 
Your wife and children are they well You used to treat them strange But are you kinder to them now How came this happy change 
I had a dream, a warning dream That heaven sent to me It warned me of a drunkard’s curse Of woe and misery 
I dreamt one night I staggered home It being a sudden gloom I missed my wife where can she be There’s strangers in the room 
I heard them say, "Poor thing she’s dead She’s lived a wretched life ’Twas grief and want that broke her heart For she was a drunkard’s wife." 
I woke and saw my Mary dear And joyful tears did stream And ever since, l’ve heaven blessed For sending me that dream 
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