[Verse 1 John Lennon] If you had the luck of the Irish Youd be sorry and wish you were dead You should have the luck of the Irish And youd wish you was English instead [Verse 2 John Lennon] A thousand years of torture and hunger Drove the people away from their land A land full of beauty and wonder Was raped by the British brigands Goddamn, Goddamn [Verse 3 Yoko Ono] If you could keep voices like flowers Thered be shamrock all over the world If you could drink dreams like Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn [Verse 4 John Lennon] In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land Of the pain and the death and the glory And the poets of auld ireland [Verse 5 Yoko Ono] If we could make chains with the morning dew The world would be like Galway Bay Lets walk over rainbows like leprechauns The world would be one big Blarney stone [Verse 6 John Lennon] Why the hell are the English there anyway As they kill with God on their side Blame it all on the kids the IRA As the bastards commit genocide Aye, Genocide [Verse 1 Lennon Ono] If you had the luck of the Irish Youd be sorry and wish you were dead You should have the luck of the Irish And youd wish you was English instead [Outro Lennon Ono] Yes youd wish you was English instead
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