| Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy
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| Thank Christ I’m not your enemy
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| There’s no struggler loves ya more than me
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| Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy
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| Margaret ground against her knuckles
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| To hold her temper at her teeth
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| Funerals are triggers in an Irish family
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| And daddy was a lion
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| But he also was a louse
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| She swallowed twice to
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| Clear the bile from her mouth
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| The house, awash with sycophants
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| Instantly enshrined
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| The parish priest, the butcher’s boy
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| The football player’s wife
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| All busy painting angel wings
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| Complicit in the lie
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| That’s the way we Irish do it when we die
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| Riddles wrapped in rosary
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| Clover grenades
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| Fools who suffer mightily
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| As our high Saint Sinead
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| We celebrate our loneliness
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| Our combustible rage
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| «He made us this way»
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| Not that Margaret wasn’t her own complicated layer cake
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| Educator/activist —
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| Republican gone straight
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| Traded Weather Underground
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| For some peacetime in the shade
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| But in her heart of hearts
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| She is as she was made
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| When she shaved her head
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| At Trinity and toured BDSM
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| Clinical, athletic sex —
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| Detached, competitive
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| The discipline appealed to her
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| The flogging and the rules
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| But the emptiness roared back when she was through
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| A missile wrapped in rosary
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| A clover grenade
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| Fools were suffered mightily
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| She shot sharp like Sinead
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| And bristled at her loneliness
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| Her combustible rage
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| «They made me this way»
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| Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy
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| Thank Christ I’m not your enemy
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| There’s no struggler lovers ya more than me
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| Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy
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| Margaret learned to make her fate
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| When Uncle James lisped with a wink
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| «If you’re not tall enough to touch the bar
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| You’re not tall enough to drink!»
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| She jumped and smacked it with her palm
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| The day that she turned six;
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| She’s wrestled Jameson’s and Guinness ever since
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| (And tonight she’s losing
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| Tonight she’s getting her ass kicked)
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| My missile wrapped in rosary
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| My clover grenade
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| Fools picked apart her sanity
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| She collapsed like Sinead
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| Encircled in her loneliness
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| Her combustible rage
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| «Who made me this way?»
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| Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy
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| Thank Christ I’m not your enemy
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| There’s no struggler loves ya more than me
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| Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy
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| Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy
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| Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Margaret Reed O'Shaughnessy , by - Kevin Devine. Song from the album Kenny O'Brien & the O'Douls, in the genre Иностранная авторская песня