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MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS lyrics : "Irish Celebration"

I'm 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 what's ours

Don't touch these lucky charms
Whole bunch of Irish screaming "$#&@ the London Guard"
I'm 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 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

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

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