Luck of the Irish (John Sinclair Live 1971)

Song Luck of the Irish (John Sinclair Live 1971)
Artist John Lennon
Album John Lennon Anthology

Lyrics

[00:16.22] If you had the luck of the Irish
[00:20.12]
[00:20.84] You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
[00:24.56]
[00:25.52] You should have the luck of the Irish
[00:29.17]
[00:29.91] And you'd wish you was English instead!
[00:35.98]
[00:37.26] A thousand years of torture and hunger
[00:41.30]
[00:41.69] Drove the people away from their land
[00:45.72]
[00:46.88] A land full of beauty and wonder
[00:50.09]
[00:51.13] Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn!
[00:57.06]
[00:58.36] If you could keep voices like flowers
[01:03.01] There'd be shamrock all over the world
[01:07.15]
[01:07.74] If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
[01:12.74] Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
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[01:21.21] In the 'Pool they told us the story
[01:24.60]
[01:25.70] How the English divided the land
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[01:30.54] Of the pain, the death and the glory
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[01:35.15] And the poets of auld Eireland
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[01:39.97] If we could make chains with the morning dew
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[01:48.75]
[01:49.51] Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns
[01:54.30] The world would be one big Blarney stone
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[02:03.03] Why the hell are the English there anyway?
[02:06.73]
[02:07.66] As they kill with God on their side
[02:11.10]
[02:12.50] Blame it all on the kids the IRA
[02:16.34]
[02:17.28] As the bastards commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide!
[02:23.76]
[02:24.40] If you had the luck of the Irish
[02:29.24] You'd be sorry and wish you werer dead
[02:32.90]
[02:34.01] You should have the luck of the Irish
[02:37.96]
[02:38.63] And you'd wish you were English instead!
[02:43.66] If you had the luck of the Irish
[02:47.63]
[02:48.29] You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
[02:52.49]
[02:53.33] You should have the luck of the Irish
[02:57.13]
[02:57.94] And you'd wish you were English instead!
[03:02.44]
[03:03.36] Yes you'd wish you were English instead!
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