Da Vinci's Notebook - Another Irish Drinking Song
[00:06.85] Gather 'round ye lads and lasses, set ye for a while
[00:10.03] And harken to me mournful tale about the Emerald Isle
[00:13.39] Let's all raise our glasses high to friends and family gone
[00:16.85] And lift our voices in another Irish drinkin' song
[00:20.54] Consumption took me mother and me father got the pox
[00:23.70] Me brother drank the whiskey 'till he wound up in a box
[00:27.15] Me other brother in the Troubles met with his demise
[00:30.54] Me sister has forever closed her smilin' Irish eyes
[00:33.98] Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
[00:37.28] We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
[00:38.87] And then we'll drink some more
[00:40.73] We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
[00:43.92] Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
[00:45.25] And then go drinkin' once again
[00:47.64] Ken he was killed in Kilkenny and Claire she died in Clare
[00:50.82] Tip from Tipperary died out in the Derry air
[00:54.29] Shannon jumped into the river Shannon back in June
[00:57.94] Ernie fell into the Erne and Tom is in the Toome
[01:01.07] "Cleanliness is godliness, " me Uncle Pat would sing
[01:04.53] He broke his neck a-slippin' on a bar of Irish Spring
[01:07.87] O'Grady he was eighty though his bride was just a pup
[01:11.34] He died upon the honeymoon when she got his Irish up (hey!)
[01:15.04] Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
[01:17.96] We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
[01:19.83] And then we'll drink some more
[01:21.69] We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
[01:24.79] Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
[01:26.12] And then go drinkin' once again
[01:35.33] Joe Murphy fought with Reilly near the cliffs of Alderney
[01:38.26] He took out his shillelagh and he stabbed him in the spleen
[01:42.19] When Crazy Uncle Michael thought he was a leprechaun
[01:45.38] But in fact he's just a leper and his arms and legs are gone
[01:48.83] When Timmy Johnson broke his neck it was a cryin' shame
[01:52.46] He wasn't really Irish, but he went to Notre Dame
[01:55.56] MacNamara crossed the street and by a bus was hit
[01:59.27] But he was just a Scotsman so nobody gave a sh- (ach!)
[02:02.11] Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
[02:05.80] We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
[02:07.40] And then we'll drink some more
[02:09.26] We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
[02:12.10] Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
[02:13.96] And then go drinkin' once again
[02:22.61] Ole!
[02:22.86] Me drunken Uncle Brendan tried to drive home from the bar
[02:26.05] The road rose up to meet him when he fell out of his car
[02:29.50] Irony was what befell me Great Grand Uncle Sam
[02:33.09] He choked upon the very last potato in the land
[02:36.53] Connor lived in Ulster town, he used to smuggle arms
[02:39.71] Until the British killed him and cut off his lucky charms
[02:43.17] And dear old Father Flanagan who left the Lord's employ
[02:46.62] Drunk on sacramental wine beneath the altar boy (hey!)
[02:50.07] Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
[02:53.26] We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
[02:55.07] And then we'll drink some more
[02:56.89] We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
[02:59.84] Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
[03:01.43] And then go drinkin' once again
[03:04.26] Someday soon I'll leave this world of pain and toil and sin
[03:09.31] The Lord will take me by the hand to join all of me kin
[03:15.10] Me only wish is when the Saviour comes for me and you
[03:22.43] He kills the cast of Riverdance and Michael Flatley too
[03:25.87] Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
[03:29.02] We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
[03:30.88] And then we'll drink some more
[03:32.48] We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
[03:35.67] Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
[03:37.26] And then go drinkin' once again
[03:39.12] Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
[03:40.71] And then go drinkin' once again
[03:42.31] Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
[03:43.89] And then go drinkin' once again
