It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch
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"It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch" is a song written in 1913 by Edward Madden and Theodore Morse.[1]
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:
- The Germans are a mighty race improving every year
- They lead the world in science, sauerkraut, and lager beer
- But there's a race surpassing them in this world and the next
- And on the tomb of Germany someday you'll read this text
- It takes the Irish to beat the Dutch
- What the Irish can't accomplish it don't amount to much
- With their scientific tricks
- They could never fool the Micks
- You can bet it takes the Irish to beat the Dutch
