Irish Celebration (P Smoov REM

Im an Irishman

Leather weathered Irish skin
Beard orange as the sunset over the flag
In the night sky we fly it in
Pride for the life we fight to live
History I write with it
Spit it with the dialect
And this is a celebration of course

The green white orange

And when they pulled up on that shore
First generation born
Toast to those that made it
On a boat to New York
And when the English
Came the colonizer came

They filled up bottles of gasoline

Turned em into balls of flame
And hurled em to protect whats ours
Dont touch these lucky charms
Whole bunch of Irish screaming
'F**k the London Guard'

Im kidding not dissin
London this bloody war
But go against the Irish
And get a bloody jaw
Preaching nonviolence
But reminds of the scars
And the bias put a pint up
Everybody sing a song

We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight
Cause you cant take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people
That arent with us
And live tonight
Cause you cant take it with ya

We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight
Cause you cant take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people
That arent with us
And live tonight
Cause you cant 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
Couldnt drink like a gentleman
That doesnt mean
I cant make a drinking song for the rest of em
Challenge us in football
Yeah we might lose
But dont put us next to a bar stool

We take the history script it in song
Light the torch then you pass it on
Thats 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 cant take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people
That arent with us

And live tonight
Cause you cant take it with ya
We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight
Cause you cant take it with ya

So raise a pint for the people
That arent with us
And live tonight
Cause you cant take it with ya

Lets go

Glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight cause you cant take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people that arent with us

And live tonight cause you cant take it with ya