Phil Adolphos the weary O, the leery

• Philadelphia: (Greek: brotherly love) in Antiquity and the Middle Age, a city in Asia Minor. It is best known as the site of one of the seven churches of Asia in the Book of Revelation.

• Philadelphia: a city in Pennsylvania, where many Irish emigrants came
• "Off to Philadelphia": a popular song:

     Oh, me name is Paddy Leary from a spot in Tipperary
     The hearts of all the girls I'm a thorn in
     But come the break of mornin it is they who'll be forlorn
      For I'm off to Philadelpha in the morning

• Philadelphos: part of the name of a number of Egyptian and Seleucid kings
• leery: alert, wide awake; empty, hungry