How I Got Even With O' Grady - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
How I Got Even With. O' Grady. Copyright, 1888, by Thos. P. Getz. Words and Music by Thos. P. Getz. 
About twelve months ago, as most of you now know, The ten I owed O'Grady drove me wild; He'd never let me rest, and I think he done his best To separate me from my wife and child. So at last I went to work, and my debts I did not shirk, And one fine day I paid O'Grady ten; He took it with a smile, while I with rage did bile, And I swore that I'd get even with him then. 
Chorus. So I lent five dollars to O'Grady, I made him think I owned him, life and soul; I'd stop him on the way to church on Sunday, And touch him for a part, if not the whole. I joined a bad bill association, Who sent a man to see him every day; It makes me laugh and blink, and it tickles me to think I got even with O'Grady in this way. 
My daughters and my sons, and neighbors all with duns, Would touch him as he'd walk along the street; I took his wife and children and everything he had, And tried to file a claim against his feet. O'Grady begged and pleaded, his pray'rs were all unheeded, I'll track him every day that I'm alive; I'll make him sob and cry, and when he comes to die He'll curse the day that he struck me for the five.-Cho. 
A week ago to-day, at a picnic across the bay, I put a Tot of girls upon his track; They made him buy ice-cream that was made of butterine, And spend all the money he had in his sack. When the time came to go home, O'Grady sobb'd and moan'd, He didn't have a cent to pay his fare; His wife and I did cry, we'll see you bye-and-bye, And I hollered as we left him standing there: 
Chorus. I lent you five dollars, Pat O'Grady, I made you think I owned your life and soul; I'll follow you to church on Sunday morning And touch you for a part, if not the whole. Your wife is so badly stuck upon me, She follows me around from day to day; Sure now I've got your wife and some day I'll have your life, I'll be even with you, Patrick, in that way.