When I walk around this town, dear
Biddies came before and worked here
Built here, got killed here
Tyrants put them down and jeered them,
Coz they know that they couldn't get away
With what they had done back in Eireann yesterday
NYC paddy, NYC paddy, NYC paddy, NYC paddy
When I walk around in Brooklyn
Young Biddy I know she loves me
NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy
Kathleen don't you cry, coz tomorrow
Things are lookin' up for Paddies
Whether in New York, Perth or Gortahork, Brummy or Berlin
Toronto, Kilburn, Sydney, Montserrat and Derry
Newfoundland or the Banna Strand of Kerry
We've been there and we've done that
Built those places and then sat
On the hills and thought of home
And travelling Paddy always in roam
But she's stronger nowhere young biddy
Than the grand old town, of NYC
NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy
NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy