Irish Celebration

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I'm an Irishman
Leather, weathered Irish skin
Beard, orange as the sunset over the flag
And 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 (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 screamin'
Fuck the London Guard
I'm kidding, not dissin' London, this bloody brawl
But go against the Irish and get a bloody jaw
Preaching non-violence 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 we're the bravest men
I drank Old Crow but pretended it was Jameson
Dad sipped Guinness, I sipped Olde English
Till he sat me down at sixteen 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 till 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

Tonight, we're celebrating life
Those are all my Irish goons in the background
Put 'em up
Because you know
All the way from Ireland to the States
From Dublin to Boston
Grafton to Seattle
My whole Haggerty family
This one's for you, let's go
And all my people say hey, all over the world
Even if you are not Irish
Put your glasses up
Ryan Lewis, and all my people, say: That's Ireland
It's beautiful, isn't it?
Irish celebration
And all my people say: Versus!

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