ART KAVANAGH


Music and lyrics by Richie Kavanagh

He was born in Borris in eighteen thirty one.
Many years have now passed but his memory lives on.
He built the new railway and the viaduct as well.
An’ the house he was born in, the Kavanaghs still dwell.

Art Kavanagh was born with no legs or arms.
He could hunt, sail n’ fish, shoot with firearms.
There was nothing on earth, this man couldn’t do.
He could ride a horse an’ paint a picture or two.

He would sail on his Schooner to England you see. 
To the Houses of Parliament, where he was an MP.
He sailed up the Thames an’ go in the back door.
A right only accorded to the king now before.

Art Kavanagh was born with no legs or arms.
He could hunt, sail n’ fish, shoot with firearms.
There was nothing on earth, this man couldn’t do.
He could ride a horse an’ paint a picture or two.

Beside an oak tree sitting there on a seat.
As a Justice of Peace, all the locals he’d meet.
Settling auld quarrels and matchmaking too.
There was nothing on earth, this man couldn’t do.

Art Kavanagh was born with no legs or arms.
He could hunt, sail n’ fish, shoot with firearms.
There was nothing on earth, this man couldn’t do.
He could ride a horse an’ paint a picture or two.

Nothing on earth this man couldn’t do.

He could ride a horse an’ paint a picture or two.  

 

“About the Song,….. Art Kavanagh”

“Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh”

He was born in 1831, with no legs or arms, and yet was an expert horseman, a first class shot, a noted yachtsman, a local Justice of the Peace, as well as a Member of Parliament..