C5                                   F5            C5
Gather ?round, ye lads and lasses, set ye for a while
                                G5
And hearken to me mournful tale of the Emerald Isle
C5                                    F5                 C5
Let?s all raise our glasses high to friends and family gone
                                G5              C5
And lift our voices in another Irish drinking song


C5                                  F5             C5
Consumption took me mother and me father got the pox
                                      G5
Me brother drank the whiskey ?til he wound up in a box
C5                                F5             C5
My other brother in the Troubles met with his demise
                                  G5             C5
My sister has forever closed her smiling Irish eyes

CHORUS:
C5
Now everybody?s died
     F5
So until our tears are dried
C5
We?ll drink and drink and drink and drink,
                           G5
and then we?ll drink some more
C5
We?ll dance and sing and fight
           F5
until the early morning light
                  C5                                  G5              C5
Then we?ll throw up, pass out, wake up, and then go drinking once again

****Same pattern for the rest of the song****

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
(n.c.)
He kills the cast of Riverdance, and Michael Flatley too

CHORUS (2x)