luck of the irish

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if you had the luck of the irish
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you’d be sorry and wish you were dead
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you should have the luck of the irish
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and you’d wish you was english instead

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a thousand years of torture and hunger
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drove the people away from their land
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a land full of beauty and wonder
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was raped by the british brigands – goddamn , goddamn

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if you could keep voices like flowers ,
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there’d be shamrock all over the world
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if you could drink dreams like irish streams
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then the world would be high as the mountains of mourne

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in the ’pool they told us the story
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how the english divided the land
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of the pain , the death and the glory
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and the poets of old ireland

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if we could make chains with the morning dew ,
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the world would be like galway bay
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let’s walk over rainbows like leprechauns ,
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the world would be one big blarney stone

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why the hell are the english there anyway?
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as they kill with god on their side
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blame it all on the kids and the ira
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as the bastards commit genocide – aye , aye , genocide

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if you had the luck of the irish
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you’d be sorry and wish you were dead
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you should have the luck of the irish
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and you’d wish you was english instead
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yes , youd wish you was english instead