Happy Tom O'Day
Words and music by Byron Gay
Published 1915

[verse 1]
Friendless roaming countrymen please let me have your ears.
I'll spin the greatest yarn that has been spun for forty years
It's all about a man and that reminds me by the way
This happy smiling genial chap is known as Tom O'Day.
Now Tom is quite a modest fellow yet begosh they say.
That with a sponge one afternoon he cleaned out Frisco Bay.

[chorus 1]
Happy happy Tom O'Day.
He could build a railroad over night
Then he'd build another one before it was daylight.
Happy happy Happy Happy Tom O'Day.
Now believe me when I say.
Like a millionaire sure did he feel
A goin' mile a minute in a Hupmobile
did Happy Happy Tom O'Day

[verse 2]
One day Tom saw headlines in a paper 'bout the war.
Without his coat without his hat he vanished thru the door
In about three jumps and a slide or two
He was dodging shot and shell
He jumped on top of the whole darned bunch and then began to yell
Says he what's al this row about then someone got his goat.
So he swung his arms like a gattling gun and sunk a dozen boats.

[chorus 2]
Happy happy Tom O'Day.
When he'd finished fighting for the day.
There was no one left to fight him so he started on his way.
Happy happy Happy Happy Tom O'Day.
The song he sang is this they say.
It's a long long way to Tipperary
But a girl back there is goin' to marry
Happy Happy Tom O'Day