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My great Grandpa was a king, a monarch stout and noble. |
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He surveyed this land so green, and he said "She's fair and humble". |
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As far as the eye can see, from |
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Carrauntooil to |
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Giant's Causeway was ours, until they went and made a criminal of me. |
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Many a Celtic head had rolled, and rolled upon the hillside, and they bathed their horses hooves in |
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Hibernian blood and their hide. |
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In exile they did flee, and set up a church and home there, 'till the landlord and the bailiff made it criminality. |
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Oh, and on the road they came to run, run until the runnin's done. |
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Run far away from fettered chain, the land was ours to barter. |
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We succumb from sweat and strain, and look they're right behind again. |
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If they catch me boys, |
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I know they'll make a criminal of me. |
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A criminal of me, a criminal of me. |
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Wandering forever, hungering eternally. |
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A criminal of me, a criminal of me. |
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Run, run, before they make a criminal of me. |
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Across the sea they sailed, to a land both bright and noble. |
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For they'd watched their neighbors starve, and the bloodline as it fumbled. |
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As they reached the safer side, ole |
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Papa said to |
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Jimmy, to try and live a life so they'd not make a criminal of he. "Go be alert," sad |
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Da, "do not perish for the gentry." |
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Tho' poor but proud was he, whenever they called discretely, well he'd smash their faces in and in gaol he died poorly. "But," he said, "don't let them try and make a criminal of ye." |
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Oh, now my boss he steps so gay, so gaily up the street, while |
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I dull the pain in pubs and still can't afford to eat. |
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He is dashing, he is fancy and he'll never want you see. |
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Evan as the factory shuts his shoes reflect the criminal in me. |
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Violent and drunk now in the street with nothing to sustain me, |
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I'm gonna die here in this hole. |
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The kids I can't take care of with me. |
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But it must be taught to let the blame and hatred out of their heads. |
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For anger and danger make you just another pathetic, drunken, violent paddy dead. |