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 If you had the luck of the Irish

 You'd be sorry and wish you were dead

 You should have the luck of the Irish

 And you'd wish you was English instead!

 A thousand years of torture and hunger

 Drove the people away from their land

 A land full of beauty and wonder

 Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn!

 If you could keep voices like flowers

 There'd be shamrock all over the world

 If you could drink dreams like Irish streams

 Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn

 In the 'Pool they told us the story

 How the English divided the land

 Of the pain, and the death and the glory

 And the poets of auld Eireland

 If we could make chains with the morning dew

 The world would be like Galway Bay

 Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns

 The world would be one big Blarney Stone

 Why the hell are the English there anyway?

 As they kill with God on their side

 Blame it all on the kids in the IRA

 As the bastards commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide!

If you had the luck of the Irish

 You'd be sorry and wish you were dead

 You should have the luck of the Irish

 And you'd wish you was English instead!

 Yes you'd wish you was English instead!