It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch

It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch is a song written in 1903 by Edward Madden and Theodore Morse. The song has several verses, each of them filled with stereotypical Irish bragging about their supposed superiority to Germans ("Dutch" in old-fashioned terminology). The chorus is in the form of a Limerick. Sample lyric:

It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch

It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch is a song written in 1903 by Edward Madden and Theodore Morse. The song has several verses, each of them filled with stereotypical Irish bragging about their supposed superiority to Germans ("Dutch" in old-fashioned terminology). The chorus is in the form of a Limerick. Sample lyric: