
Date of issue: 31.01.1989
Record label: The Irish Rovers
Song language: English
Buy Us a Drink |
Here’s to the oldiers that march tae the wars |
With lovely tin hats and long woollen drawers |
The Colonel says right lads, over the top |
Then stands back tae wtach while the poor buggers drop |
Buy us a drink and we’ll sing you a song |
Of the chances you missed and the love that went wrong |
If you can’t buy a whiskey, stand us a pint |
We’ll knock it straight down and we’ll sing half the night |
There’s girls in the parlour, there’s girls in the bars |
They paint on the smile so you don’t see the scars |
They get lots of offers and not much respect |
For raisin' three kids on a government cheque |
Drink it down, boys, down |
As long as there’s light in the day |
For you’ll get no more sup |
When your number is up |
And they lay to rot in the clay |
In comes the landlord so fat and contect |
Comes round in his Volvo to pick up the rent |
Then off with his wad tae recline by the pool |
He leave tea rot in this dirty old hold |
Repeat Chorus |
It’s the taste of the whiskey tae tell you the truth |
Has shortened me days and wasted me youth |
Be kind tae the health, sir do it no harm |
Put a pint’o the black on end of me arm |
Repeat Chorus Twice |
Name | Year |
---|---|
Drunken Sailor | 2014 |
Up Among the Heather | 2014 |
The Jolly Roving Tar | 2012 |
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye | 2014 |
Star of the County Down | 1996 |
Whiskey in the Jar | 2014 |
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen | 1999 |
Finnegan’s Wake | 2014 |
Donald Where's Your Trousers | 1996 |
Mick Maguire | 2014 |
The Rake | 2014 |
The Dublin Pub Crawl | 2010 |
Trust in Drink | 2012 |
Rambling Boys of Pleasure | 2014 |
Star of the Co. Down | 2014 |
Grandma Got Run-over by a Reindeer | 1999 |
Mountain Tay | 1996 |
New York Girls | 2014 |
Dunluce Castle | 2014 |
Christmas in Killarney | 1999 |