Difference between revisions of "Phil Adolphos the weary O, the leery"
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- 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
