Artist: | Irish Folk (English) |
User: | David Levy |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Saint Patrick was a Gentleman
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Saint Patrick was a gentleman, he came from decent people.
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He built a church in Dublin town and on it put his steeple.
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His father was a Gallagher, his mother was a Grady
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His aunt was an O’Shaughnessy, his uncle was a Brady.
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The Wicklow hills are very high, and so is the hill of Howth sir
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But there’s a hill much higher still, much higher than them both sir
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On top of this high hill Saint Patrick preached his sermon
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Which drove the frogs into the bogs and banished all the vermin.
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There’s not a mile of Eireann’s isle where dirty vermin muster
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But there he put his dear fore-foot and murdered them in clusters
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The frogs went hop and the toads went pop slapdash into the water
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And the snakes committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter
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Nine hundred thousand reptiles blue he charmed with sweet discourses
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And dined on them in Killaloe on soups and second courses
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Where blind worms crawling in the grass disgusted all the nation
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Right down to hell with a holy spell he changed their situation
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No wonder that them Irish lads should be so gay and risky
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Sure St Pat he taught them that as well as making Whiskey
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No wonder that the saint himself should understand distilling
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For his mother kept a shebeen shop in the town of Enniskillen