Bridget O'Flynn, Where Have You Been?

As another St. Patrick Day rolls around and as I think of wisdom passed between mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, old cousins and young cousins, I think of Bridget O'Flynn getting a talking to by her wised up mother. Actually, I hear this song in my father's voice — one of his famous bedtime lullabies to his little bridgets.

Bridget O'Flynn, where have you been, Bridget O'Flynn?
Sure it's a fine time for you to be gettin' in.
You went to see the big parade, the big parade me eye.
There...