(I’m Looking For)
From “The Marriage Market”, 1913
Words by M. E. Rourke
Music by Jerome D. Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Kitty Carey was from Tipperary
And a sweet colleen was she
On an ocean liner bound for Ellis Island
Kitty sailed across the sea
She had searched thro’ Ireland
But the kind of husband that she wanted
Was not there
So, to the custom’s officer
She answered when he asked
“Have you anything important to declare?”
Why yes, I’m
Refrain
“Looking for an Irish husband
The kind old Ireland grows
With a light blue eye
And a green necktie
And a saucy turn up nose
For a girl from Tipperary
Who wants to change her name from Carey
Has to take a trip, on board a ship
For the far off U. S. A.
For all the finest men in Ireland
Are in America today”
- Kitty Carey straight from Tipperary
Said she really didn’t care
If the man she married was a Doyle or Murphy
Pat McCann or Mike O’ Hare
Still she felt quite certain and was sure of one thing
He must be an Irish man
Then said the custom’s officer
“I’m just the man you want
For I’m Aloysius Patrick J. McCann
And you are”
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: