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Harrigan

From: Song and Memory
Length: 00:03:34

A Brooklyn woman how on St. Patrick's Day her father and his friends from the neighborhood would sing a spirited rendition of the classic drinking song 'Harrigan. Read the full description.

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In this Song and Memory story, Kathy Napoli of Brooklyn, New York, remembers how every St. Patrick's Day her father would get neighborhood men to come up to the family's apartment and drunkenly sing Irish songs . Her most memorable song is "Harrigan" an Irish-American tune from the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy.