Macklemore - Irish celebration
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Intro: |C G Am F| 6x
CI'm an Irishman G
Leather weathered Irish skiAmn
Beard orange as the sunsFet over the flag
CIn the night sky we fly it in
GPride for the life we fight to live
AmHistory, I write with it
AmSpit it with the dialect
CAnd this is a celebration of course
GThe green, white, orange
AmAnd when they pulled up on that shore
FFirst generation born
CToast to those that made it on a boat to New York
GAnd when the English came the colonizer came
AmThey filled up bottles of gasoline, turned 'em into balls of flame
FAnd hurled 'em to protect what's ours
CDon't touch these lucky charms
GWhole bunch of Irish screaming "Fuck the London Guard"
AmI'm kidding not dissin' London, this bloody war
FBut go against the Irish and get a bloody jaw
CPreaching nonviolence but reminds of the scars
GAnd the bias, put a pint up everybody sing a song
Chorus:
CWe put our glass to the sky and lift up
AmAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
FSo raise a pint for the people that aren't with us
AmAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
Same the rest of the time
We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
From New England to New Brunswick
Galway to Dublin
A rebellious nation of freckled face hustlers
Heart, blue collared workers and family
My heritage, proud to be a Haggerty
Now with whiskey in our veins
Claiming were the bravest men
I drank Old Crow, but pretended it was Jameson
Dad sipped Guiness, I sipped Old English
'Til he sat me down at 16 and said "boy, this is what a beer is"
I put down the drink, couldn't drink like a gentleman
That doesn't mean I can't make a drinking song for the rest of 'em
Challenge us in football, yeah we might lose
But don't put us next to a bar stool
We take the history, script it in song
Light the torch then you pass it on
That's right I said, lineage through the rhythm we script it from the palm
and we give til' Ireland is on
Bottoms Up
We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya