Irish Celebration
MacklemoreVersion1
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Chords in this song
Strum
D-DU-UDU
| | 6x
I'm an Irishman
Leather weathered Irish skin
Beard orange as the sunset over the flag
In the night sky we fly it in
Pride for the life we fight to live
History, I write with it
Spit it with the dialect
And this is a celebration of course
The green, white, orange
And when they pulled up on that shore
First generation born
Toast to those that made it on a boat to New York
And when the English came the colonizer came
They filled up bottles of gasoline, turned 'em into balls of flame
And hurled 'em to protect what's ours
Don't touch these lucky charms
Whole bunch of Irish screaming "Fuck the London Guard"
I'm kidding not dissin' London, this bloody war
But go against the Irish and get a bloody jaw
Preaching nonviolence but reminds of the scars
And the bias, put a pint up everybody sing a song
We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
Same the rest of the time
We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
From New England to New Brunswick
Galway to Dublin
A rebellious nation of freckled face hustlers
Heart, blue collared workers and family
My heritage, proud to be a Haggerty
Now with whiskey in our veins
Claiming were the bravest men
I drank Old Crow, but pretended it was Jameson
Dad sipped Guiness, I sipped Old English
'Til he sat me down at 16 and said "boy, this is what a beer is"
I put down the drink, couldn't drink like a gentleman
That doesn't mean I can't make a drinking song for the rest of 'em
Challenge us in football, yeah we might lose
But don't put us next to a bar stool
We take the history, script it in song
Light the torch then you pass it on
That's right I said, lineage through the rhythm we script it from the palm
and we give til' Ireland is on
Bottoms Up
We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us
And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya
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Readable chord sheet for Irish Celebration by Macklemore
|[C] [G] [Am] [F]| 6x [C]I'm an Irishman [G] Leather weathered Irish ski[Am]n Beard orange as the suns[F]et over the flag [C]In the night sky we fly it in [G]Pride for the life we fight to live [Am]History, I write with it [Am]Spit it with the dialect [C]And this is a celebration of course [G]The green, white, orange [Am]And when they pulled up on that shore [F]First generation born [C]Toast to those that made it on a boat to New York [G]And when the English came the colonizer came [Am]They filled up bottles of gasoline, turned 'em into balls of flame [F]And hurled 'em to protect what's ours [C]Don't touch these lucky charms [G]Whole bunch of Irish screaming "Fuck the London Guard" [Am]I'm kidding not dissin' London, this bloody war [F]But go against the Irish and get a bloody jaw [C]Preaching nonviolence but reminds of the scars [G]And the bias, put a pint up everybody sing a song [C]We put our glass to the sky and lift up [Am]And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya [F]So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us [Am]And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya Same the rest of the time We put our glass to the sky and lift up And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya From New England to New Brunswick Galway to Dublin A rebellious nation of freckled face hustlers Heart, blue collared workers and family My heritage, proud to be a Haggerty Now with whiskey in our veins Claiming were the bravest men I drank Old Crow, but pretended it was Jameson Dad sipped Guiness, I sipped Old English 'Til he sat me down at 16 and said "boy, this is what a beer is" I put down the drink, couldn't drink like a gentleman That doesn't mean I can't make a drinking song for the rest of 'em Challenge us in football, yeah we might lose But don't put us next to a bar stool We take the history, script it in song Light the torch then you pass it on That's right I said, lineage through the rhythm we script it from the palm and we give til' Ireland is on Bottoms Up We put our glass to the sky and lift up And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya We put our glass to the sky and lift up And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya