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 Gather 'round ye lads and lasses, set ye for a whileAnd harken to me mournful tale about the Emerald Isle
 Let's all raise our glasses high to friends and family gone
 And lift our voices in another Irish drinkin' song
 Consumption took me mother and me father got the pox
 Me brother drank the whiskey 'till he wound up in a box
 Me other brother in the Troubles met with his demise
 Me sister has forever closed her smilin' Irish eyes
 Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
 We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
 And then we'll drink some more
 We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
 Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
 And then go drinkin' once again
 Ken he was killed in Kilkenny and Claire she died in Clare
 Tip from Tipperary died out in the Derry air
 Shannon jumped into the river Shannon back in June
 Ernie fell into the Erne and Tom is in the Toome
 'Cleanliness is godliness,' me Uncle Pat would sing
 He broke his neck a-slippin' on a bar of Irish Spring
 O'Grady he was eighty though his bride was just a pup
 He died upon the honeymoon when she got his Irish up (hey!)
 Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
 We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
 And then we'll drink some more
 We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
 Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
 And then go drinkin' once again
 
 Joe Murphy fought with Reilly near the cliffs of Alderney
 He took out his shillelagh and he stabbed him in the spleen
 When Crazy Uncle Michael thought he was a leprechaun
 But in fact he's just a leper and his arms and legs are gone
 When Timmy Johnson broke his neck it was a cryin' shame
 He wasn't really Irish, but he went to Notre Dame
 MacNamara crossed the street and by a bus was hit
 But he was just a Scotsman so nobody gave a sh- (ach!)
 Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
 We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
 And then we'll drink some more
 We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
 Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
 And then go drinkin' once again
 
 Ole!
 Me drunken Uncle Brendan tried to drive home from the bar
 The road rose up to meet him when he fell out of his car
 Irony was what befell me Great Grand Uncle Sam
 He choked upon the very last potato in the land
 Connor lived in Ulster town, he used to smuggle arms
 Until the British killed him and cut off his lucky charms
 And dear old Father Flanagan who left the Lord's employ
 Drunk on sacramental wine beneath the altar boy (hey!)
 Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
 We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
 And then we'll drink some more
 We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
 Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
 And then go drinkin' once again
 Someday soon I'll leave this world of pain and toil and sin
 The Lord will take me by the hand to join all of me kin
 Me only wish is when the Saviour comes for me and you
 He kills the cast of Riverdance and Michael Flatley too
 Now everybody's died, so until our tears are dried
 We'll drink and drink and drink and drink
 And then we'll drink some more
 We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light
 Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
 And then go drinkin' once again
 Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
 And then go drinkin' once again
 Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up
 And then go drinkin' once again
 
 
		
		
	
 
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