Irishman's Shanty

Did you ever go into an Irishman's shanty,
Where money is scarce but whisky is plenty,
A three-legged stool and a table to match?
You open the door and you get some snatch.

	Paul Gifford learned this while working as a musician at Mackinac Island, Michigan, between 1975 and 1985.  The song, in bawdy and presentable versions, "is still pretty widespread in Michigan," Gifford wrote, "and not infrequently someone would sing a version of it."
	The last line of the text above is alternatively: "A basket and door that you shut with a latch."