Lirama

Gather 'round ye lads and lassies, set ye for a while
and 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

refrain:
Now everybody's died, so until our tears are cried
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 was killed in Killkinney, Claire she died in Clares
Tip in Tipperary died out in the dairy air
Shannon jumped into the river Shannon back in June
Ernie fell into the urn and Tom is in the tomb

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, 'tho his bride was just a pup
he died upon the honeymoon when she got his Irish up

refrain

Joe Murphy fought with Riley near the cliffs of Alderney
he took out his shillaly and he stabbed him in the spleen
Crazy Uncle Mike 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 shit

refrain

Me drunken Uncle Brendan tried to drive home from the bar
the road rose up to meet when he fell out of his car
Irony at once befell me Great Grand Uncle Sam
when 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

refrain

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 Savior comes for me and you
He kills the cast of Riverdance and Michael Flatley too

refrain
Then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up and then go drinkin' once again (2x)