Thade Corkery

Without ever being aggressive or looking for fight Thade Corkery often drank booze all day and all night Yet he loved his children and he loved his wife A man in his ways who was larger than life. The man from Clarabeg by little Clara Hill In his lifetime of alcohol did drink his fill Yet he never caused a fight in Millstreet Town Or in words he never put another down. Some men when drunk in their ways are quite rough And to punch someone in the face is their way of acting tough For their type pride does come before a fall Thade Corkery he was not that way at all. He never called another out of name And drunk or sober he was much the same To drink lots of alcohol his only sin But he was one who had his God Within.