St. Patrick's Party Print and Sing Along
1. Four Leaf Clover 2. Mary, Mary 3. I Want A Girl
4. Peggy O'Neil 5. Irish Lullaby 6. Irish Eyes/Smiling
7. Band Played On 8. Macnamara's Band 9. Wild Irish Rose
10. Peg O' My Heart 11. Clancy Lowered the Boom
12. Shanty In Old Shanty Town 13. Galway Bay
1. FOUR LEAF CLOVER
I'm looking over a four leaf clover
That I overlooked before
One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain
Third is the roses that grow in the lane
No need explaining the one remaining
It's somebody I adore
I'm looking over a four leaf clover
That I overlooked before.
2. MARY, MARY
For it is Mary, Mary, plain as any name can be:
But with propriety, society, will say Marie
But it was Mary, Mary, long before the fashions came
And there something there, that sounds so square
Its a grand old name.
(and then......)
H-A-Double R- I- G-A-N spells Harrigan
Proud of all the Irish that is in me
Devil a man can say a word a'gin me
H-A-Double R-I----G-A-N you see
It's a name brought to fame,
That's never been connected with
Harrigan, that's me.
3. I WANT A GIRL
1) I want a girl, just like the girl, that married dear old Dad
She was a pearl and the only girl that Daddy ever had
A good old fashioned girl with heart so true
One who love nobody else but you
I want a girl, Just like the girl that married dear old Dad
2) I want a beer, just like the beer, that pickled dear old Dad
It was the beer and the only beer that Daddy ever had
A good old green beer with a head of foam
It took ten men to carry Daddy home.
Oh, I want a beer, just like the beer that pickled my old dad.
4. PEGGY O'NEIL
If her eyes are blue as skies, that's Peggy O'Neil
If she's smiling all the while, that's Peggy O'Neil
If she walks like a sly little rogue
If she talks with a cute little brogue
Sweet personality, full of rascality
That's Peggy O'Neil.
5. IRISH LULLABY
Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra, Too Ra Loo Ra Li
Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra,
Hush now don't you cry
Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra, Too Ra Loo Ra Li
Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra,
That's an Irish Lullaby.
6. WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
When Irish Eyes are smiling,
Sure it's like a morn in spring
In the lilt of Irish laughter,
You can hear the angels sing
When Irish hearts are happy,
All the world seems bright and gay
And when Irish eyes are smiling
Sure they'll steal your heart away
7. THE BAND PLAYED ON
Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde
And the band played on.
He'd glide cross the floor with a girl he adored
And the band played on.
But his brain was so loaded, he nearly exploded
The poor girl would shake with alarm
He married the girl with the strawberry curl
And the band played on...
8. MACNAMARA'S BAND
Chorus:
Oh! The drums go bang and the cymbals clang
And the horns they blaze away
McCarthy pumps the old bazzoon
While I the pipes do play
'N' Hennessey, Tennessee, tootles the flute
And the magic is somethin' grand
A credit to old Ireland
Is Macnamara's Band
9. MY WILD IRISH ROSE
My wild Irish rose, the sweetest flower that grows.
You may search everywhere but none can compare
With my wild Irish rose
My wild Irish rose, the dearest flower that grows
And someday for my sake she may let me take
The bloom from my wild Irish rose.
10. PEG O' MY HEART
Peg o' my heart I love you
We'll never part, I love you
I always knew, it would be you
Since I heard your lilting laughter
It's your Irish heart I'm after
Peg o' my heart, your glances
Make my heart say--how's chances?
Come, be my own
Come make your home in my heart.
11. CLANCY LOWERED THE BOOM
Chorus:
Oh, that Clancy, oh, that Clancy
Whenever they got his Irish up
Clancy lowered the boom
Oh, that Clancy, oh that Clancy
Whenever they got his Irish Up
Clancy lowered the boom, boom
Boom, boom, boom. boom, boom. boom
12. SHANTY TOWN
It's only a shanty in old shanty town.
The roof is so slanty
It touches the ground
Just a tumbled down shack
By an old railroad track
Like a millionaire's mansion
Is calling me back
I'd give up a palace if I were a king
It's more than a palace,
It's my everything
There's a queen waiting there
With a silvery crown
In a shanty in old shanty town
(Step it up now)
There's a shanty in a town on a little plot of ground
Where the green grass grows all around, all around
And the roof's so worn, so badly torn,
That it tumbles to the ground.
In a little grass shack that sits way back
About 25 feet from the railroad track
Lingers on my mind most all the time
Keeps calling me back to my little grass shack
I'd be as sassy as Haile Selassie
If I were a king, wouldn't mean a thing
Put my boots on tall, read the writing on the wall
Don't mean a thing, not a gosh-darn thing
There's a queen waiting there in a rocking chair
Just blowing her top on a keg of beer
Looking all around and trucking on down
Cause I got to get back to my Shanty Town.
13. GALWAY BAY
If you ever go across the sea to Ireland
Then maybe at the closing of your day
You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh
And see the sun go down on Galway Bay
Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream
The women in the meadows making hay
And to sit beside a turffire in the cabin
And watch the barefoot gossons at their play
For the breezes blowing o'er the seas from Ireland
Are perfum'd by the heather as they blow
And the women in the uplands diggin' praties
Speak a language that the strangers do not know
For the strangers came and tried to teach us their way
They scorned us just for being what we are
But they might as well go chasing after moonbeams
Or light a penny candle from a star.
And if there is a going to be a life hereafter
And somehow I am sure there's going to be
I will ask my God to let me make my heaven
In that dear land across the Irish sea.
May
the luck of the Irish be with you!
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