O'Leary the Leering Leprechaun

By now, we all have seen,

That little eejit on the shelf,

The naughty, spying git,

The smug Christmas Elf.

We forget he’s sitting there,

He stares all day without a flinch,

Then, when all are fast asleep,

Comes alive to play the Grinch.

He flies to Santa the tattletale

With all the good and bad we’ve done,

Then, plays the downright hypocrite,

He spends the night in mischievous fun.

Well, if you think the Elf is creepy,

Have I got some news for you!

Let me introduce his cousin,

Leering Leprechaun O’Leary.

One bright St. Patrick’s Day

O’Leary came up with something new:

He thought long and hard upon his life,

How things had gone askew.

He and all his merry kin,

Once wee angels in the sky,

But swayed by Lucifer’s horrid sin,

From Heaven were forced to fly.

Not yet so bad to be sent to Hell,

But not good enough to stay On High,

Down to earth they were flung,

Banished from their angelic home

Soaring in the sky.

Now they wander Eire

Waiting for the end,

For when the Trumpets blow,

The Pit will receive them then.

Before their time will come, they figured,

“Why always be so glum?

While we trot about this earth,

We’ll have our share of fun.”

So, for eons they danced and played,

Enjoyed their gold, revelled and fought,

Drank and partied millenniums away,

Heaven? Nary a thought!

Then the light for a moment dawned

In Little O’Leary’s brain.

“Sakes! What’s the point of this,

If we can’t see Heaven again?

Hell is not the place to be,

I can see that clearly.”

So, the wheels began to turn,

In the crafty mind of O’Leary.

He noted his jingly cousin

That little eejit Elf,

Was on to something good,

By sitting, staring on the shelf.

“If me daft cousin can be a snoop

And spy for someone saintly,

Sure, I can do the same,

It might work, just maybe!”

It didn’t take him long at all

To think who he could aid,

Why, St. Patrick could use a hand,

And then, he’d have it made!

That saint had earned a special grace,

A blessed gift from above:

That he could greet the Irish,

The people that he loved.

He would get to judge them first,

Then, send their souls to God.

What?  How could so great a task

Be done by just one saintly man?

O’Leary could help keep track,

Of those Paddies in every land!

Spying on all the Gaels and Celts,

Now that’s a master plan!

He could easy creep them out,

With all his leery looks,

Freaking them into being good,

Or mark them in his books.

So many Paddies make a hames

Of St. Paddy’s special day,

O’Leary thought he’d make sure,

They’d spend it the right way.

A smithereen o’green,

Did ye forget to wear?

Ah, look out me friend,

Cead mille pinches beware!

Did ye go to Holy Mass,

Did ye say all ye’re prayers?

Or like ing-uns are ye’re sins and faults

Piled up in multi-layers?

Did ye go and take the time

To unload them in confession?

Or are ye just wasting time,

With all ye’re larkin’ and ye’re messin’?

Did ye think to thank the saint?

Nay! Ye’re  a gluttin’ on corned beef!

Ah, more’s the pity,

Ah, more’s the grief!

A drinking ye love to do,

The stout and whisky flows,

The Pledge is gone, the bottle remains,

Oh yes, O’Leary knows.

The list goes on and on,

What keeps us from the pearly gates,

O’Leary marks it down,

He and all his tiny mates,

For now every leprechaun,

Has latched to his bright idea,

If they help him out they figure,

They too will have no Hell to fear!

We know not what St. Patrick thinks,

O’Leary lacked the stout to ask him,

The leprechauns thought they’d save them up,

And all the records hand him.

How successful will they be?

‘Tis difficult to tell,

For they are all as cheeky,

As the family Christmas Elves.

At night they resume their auld ways,

It’s hard to stay so good!

Drinking, fighting and hoarding gold,

Divilment is in the blood.

But by day if they are caught,

You may see what they have done,

Poking in all your cupboards,

Or making sure your work’s undone.

Ah, ye little hypocrites,

To spy on us so sorely!

Then to find ye’re just as weak,

Ye’re virtues are sure poorly!

So beware, all ye who boast,

Irish ancestry in ye’re blood,

O’Leary and all his puckish mates

Know when ye’re up to no good.

 

Other St. Patrick Day Blog posts you may like:


When St. Patrick Impaled a Convert 

St. Patrick's Purgatory 

 The Shamrock Purist

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