Another Irish Drinking Song Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 Chords Used: C,F,G

CGather ’round, ye lads and lasses, sFet ye for a wChile

 And hearken to me mournful tale Gof the Emerald Isle

CLet’s all raise our glasses high to fFriends and family Cgone

 And lift our voices in another IGrish drinking sCong

CConsumption took me mother and me fFather got the Cpox

 Me brother drank the whiskey ’til he wGound up in a box

CMy other brother in the Troubles Fmet with his dCemise

 My sister has forever closed her sGmiling Irish eCyes

Chorus

CNow everybody’s died

 So unFtil our tears are dried

CWe’ll drink and drink and drink and drink,

 and then we’ll drink some mGore

CWe’ll dance and sing and fight

 until the eFarly morning light

 Then we’ll throw uCp, pass out, wake up, and then go dGrinking once agCain

Kenny 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 80 though his bride was just a pup

He died upon the honeymoon when she got his Irish up

Chorus

Joe Murphy fought with Reilly near the banks of old Doneen

He took out his shillelagh and he stabbed him in the spleen

Crazy Uncle Mike believed he was a leprechaun -

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

McNamara crossed the street and by a bus was hit

But he was just a Scotsman, so nobody gave a (ARRGHH)

Chorus

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 my great-grand Uncle Sam

He choked upon the very last potato in the land

Conor 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

Chorus

(slower)

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

 HCe kills the cast of Riverdance, and Michael Flatley too

Chorus

2x)