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
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