In case anyone's collecting data on -ire words spelled in two
syllables, I found one.
In the second verse of "Take me out to the ballgame" -- verse, not
refrain, ie, the part of the song that one virtually never hears
nowadays -- "umpire" is written on three notes as "um-pi-re".
Published in 1908.
<http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/display.pl?record=027.125a.
001&pages=4>
mdl
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