“May your heart be light and happy, may your smile be big and wide, and may your pockets always have a coin or two inside” is an Irish blessing (or proverb) that has been printed on many images. Authorship is unknown.
“May your heart be light and happy, May your smile be big and wide, And may your pockets always have A coin or two inside!” was printed in the book Stanley Cup Dream (2004) by Brian McFarlane. “May your heart be light and happy/ May your smile be big and wide/ And my your pockets always have/ A tinkle of Gold inside” was posted on the newsgroup alt.support.hepatitis on March 17, 2004. The “tinkle of gold inside” ending has been less popular.
“May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, and may God’s grace be with you each day and each night” is a related blessing.
Google Books
Stanley Cup Dream
By Brian McFarlane
Bolton, ON: Fenn Pub.
2004
Pg. 54:
Marty clicked glasses with Mr. McGee and came right back with: “May your heart be light and happy, May your smile be big and wide, And may your pockets always have A coin or two inside!”
Google Groups: alt.support.hepatitis
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
HoofPrints
Mar 17, 2004, 12:37:52 PM
Some Irish Blessings for you.
(...)
May your heart be light and happy
May your smile be big and wide
And my your pockets always have
A tinkle of Gold inside.
Newspapers.com
28 January 2005, Burlington (VT) Free Press, pg. 7E, cols. 3-4:
May your heart be
light and happy,
May your smile be big
and wide,
And may your pockets always
have a coin or two inside.
Google Books
Heaven’s Edge
By Kathleen Harrison
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse
2009
Pg. 278:
“May your heart be light and happy, may your smile be big and wide, and may your pockets always have a coin or two inside.”
Twitter
Missy Gleason
@Missy_Gleason
May your heart be light and happy,
May your smile be big and wide,
And may your pockets always have
a coin or two inside!
1:36 PM · Mar 17, 2009
Google Groups: bhs67reunion
Rusty Holden
Claudette Emerson
Aug 4, 2009, 12:28:23 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUSS!
May your heart be light and happy,
May your smile be big and wide,
And may your pockets always have
a coin or two inside!
Twitter
Brad May
@maydayhockey
May your heart be light and happy
May your smile be big and wide
And may your pockets always have
A tinkle of gold inside. IRISH WISDOM
4:23 PM · Mar 17, 2011
Twitter
Mike Westmoreland
@BumblingMike
May your heart be light & happy; May your smile be big & wide; And may your pockets always have a tinkle of gold inside.
7:38 PM · May 17, 2015 from Colorado, USA
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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