Your Favorite Irish Choruses

8th Of January

They ran through the briars
and they ran through the bushes
They ran through the places
where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast
that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico

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Black Velvet Band

Her eyes the shined like the diamonds
you'd think she was queen of the land
and her hair hung over her shoulder
tied up with a black velvet band

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Boys Of The Old Brigade

Where are the lads who stood with me
When history was made?
Oh, gra’ mo chroi, I long to see
The Boys of the Old Brigade.

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Come Out Ye Black & Tans

Oh come out ye Black and Tans,
come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA
made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes
of Killeshandra

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Courtin’ In The Kitchen

With a toura loura laa;
toura loura laddy.
With a toura loura laa;
toura loura loura laddy.

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Drunken Sailor

Way hay and up she rises
Way hay up she rises
Way hay up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning

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The Ferryman

Where the strawberry beds
Sweep down to the Liffey
And kiss away the worries
from my brow
I love you well today
and I love you more tomorrow
If you ever loved me Molly love me now

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The Flower Seller

And all the young lovers
Will pull up in taxis
To buy flowers to make their love last
They buy white rose for new love
Red rose for true love,
Violets for love of the past

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Galway Shawl

She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds,
No paint or powder, no, none at all.
She wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it
And round her shoulders
was a Galway Shawl.

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God Save Ireland

God save Ireland, said the heroes
God save Ireland, said they all
Whether on the scaffold high
Or the battlefield we die
Oh what matter when for Ireland
dear we fall?

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Good To See You

It's good to see you, so good to see you
Oh how I've missed you
since I've been gone
I've crossed the oceans,
traveled through many lands
It's good to see you, to be in your home

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Hills Of Connemara

Gather up the pots and the old tin can,
The mash, the corn the barley & the bran
Run like the devil from the excise man,
Keep the smoke from rising Barney

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Home Boys Home

And it’s home, boys, home,
home I'd like to be,
Home for a while in the old country
Where the oak and the ash
and the bonny rowan tree
Are all a-growing greener
in the old Country

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I’ll Tell Me Ma

I'll tell me ma when I go home
The boys won't leave the girls alone
They pulled my hair and stole my comb
But that's alright ‘til I go home
She is handsome she is pretty
She is the belle of Belfast city
She is courting one, two, three
Please would you tell me who is she

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The Irish Pub Song

They've got one in Honolulu,
they've got one in Moscow too
They got four of them in Sydney
and a couple in Kathmandu
So whether you sing or pull a pint
you'll always have a job
'Cause where ever you go around the world you'll find an Irish pub

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Kiss Me I’m Irish

Kiss me I’m Irish,
I am the Wild Rover
My eyes they are smiling,
and I’m seldom sober
I like my whiskey, and I love to dance
So if you’re feeling as lucky as me
take a chance…
And kiss me I’m Irish,

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Leaving Of Liverpool

So fare thee well my own true love
When I return united we will be
It's not the leaving of Liverpool
that grieves me
But my darling when I think of thee

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Mary Ellen Carter

Rise again, rise again,
That her name not be lost
To the knowledge of men
To those who loved her best
and were with her ‘til the end
Will make the Mary Ellen Carter
rise again
(Final chorus)
Rise again, rise again
Though your heart it be broken
and life about to end
No matter what you've lost,
be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again

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The Mermaid

And the ocean waves did roll (ROLL!)
And the stormy winds did blow (BLOW!)
And we poor sailors
are skipping at the top
While the landlubbers lie down below, below, below
The landlubbers lie down below

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Molly Malone

Alive alive oh, alive alive oh
Singing cockles and mussels
Alive alive oh

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The Morning Glory

One for the morning glory
two for the early dew
three for the man
who would stand his round
and four for the love of you, my girl
four for the love of you

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Moonshiner

I'm a rambler I'm a gambler
I'm a long way from home
and if you don't like me
then leave me alone
I'll eat when I'm hungry
and I'll drink when I'm dry
and if moonshine don't kill me
I'll live till I die

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MTA

Did he ever return?
[Shout] NO HE NEVER RETURNED!
And his fate is still unlearned
He may ride forever
‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned

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Nancy Spain

No matter where I wander
I'm still haunted by your name
the portrait of you beauty stays the same
standing by the ocean
wond'ring where you've gone
if you'll return again
where is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain

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Nancy Whiskey

Whiskey, Whiskey, Nancy
Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey, Nancy-O

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Past The Point Of Rescue

But I do, and I wonder if I'm
Past the point of rescue
Is no word from you at all
the best that you can do
I never meant to push or shove you,
do you know how much I love you
No you don't, but I do

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Peter’s Song

There was Peter sitting in the corner
fiddle in his hand
Playing away like you never heard before
and you’ll never hear again
Charlie on banjo, Shorty on the bodhràn
everything was grand
Come along Mark and let me in
I want to join the band

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Portland Town

I see the light across the bay,
I see the light not far away,
And I hear music all around,
I'm gettin' close to Portland Town,
Oh, mother, won't you make my bed,
I see the light of Portland Head,
I see the light, I'm comin' 'round,
I'm comin' home to Portland Town.

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Red Rose Café

Down at the Red Rose Cafe
in the Harbor
There by the port just outside Amsterdam
Everyone shares in the songs
and the laughter
Everyone there is so happy to be there

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Sonny’s Dream

Sonny don't go away, I am here all alone
Your daddy's a sailor, never comes home
Nights get so long, the silence goes on
I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong

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The Spanish Lady

Whack fol the toora, toora laddy
Whack fol the foora loora lay

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Step it Out Mary

Step it out Mary, my fine daughter
Step it out Mary, if you can
Step it out Mary, my fine daughter
Show your legs to the countryman

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The Unicorn

There were green alligators
and long-necked geese
Some humpty backed camels
and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants,
but sure as you're born
The loveliest of all was the unicorn

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Walk Away

We walk away, talk away
Looking for someone to blame
Feeling fine, singing a line
I can see no other way
Ooh, ooh, Don’t walk away
Ooh, ooh, Don’t walk away

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When You Were Sweet 16

I loved you as I've never loved before
Since first I saw you on the village green
Come to me and my dream of love is o'er
I love you as I loved you,
When you were sweet
When you were sweet sixteen

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Whiskey In The Jar

Mush a ring a ma dor um a dah (4 claps)
Whack for the daddy Oh (2 claps)
Whack for the daddy Oh
There’s whiskey in the jar

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The Wild Rover

and it's no nay never (4 claps)
No nay never no more (2 claps)
Will I play the wild rover (1 clap)
No never no more (2 claps)

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Will You Go Lassie Go

And we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?

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