The Ballad of Ronnie Drew (2008)
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1. Here's to the Ronnie, the voice we adore,
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like
coals from a coal bucket scraping the floor !
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Sing out his praises in music
and malt,
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and
if you're not Irish, that isn't your fault.
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2. Raise up our voices like dogs in a
pack,
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grateful
for honest men we never lack.
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We got 'em
by twenties, we got 'em by
ones,
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them
and their daughters and all of their sons.
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew !
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew !
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Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes, we do.
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you !
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3. And what's it to any man whether or no,
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whether
I'm easy or whether I'm true ?
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As I lifted her petticoat easy
and slow,
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and I
tied up me sleeve for to buckle her shoe.
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4. Get up and go at it, five until five,
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when
the whistle says budge it, we come back alive.
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He'll sing to the heavens,
he's stormy as hell,
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and
wherever he goes, we'll be wishing him well.
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew !
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew !
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Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes, we do.
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you !
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+ The dawn and the dust,
the wise, the unjust,
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kids
in gambling games,
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the
unheard, the unseen, the unwashed and unclean,
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where
the streets all have names :
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Em
with
lovers and loners who can hear all intoners,
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the goths and the ravers, immigrants
and traders
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sing
out Ronnie Drew !
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5. A eye for a eye or a hand for a hand.
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trust
in the music and strike up the band.
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The more that we sing the less
that we fight,
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time
and again this is proved to be right.
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6. Build you a statue on St.Stephen's Green,
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no
fairer monument ere to be seen.
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The statue of Ronnie Drew
holding the hand
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of a
girl with her hair in a black velvet band.
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew !
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew !
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Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes, we do.
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you !
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+ Here's to you, Ronnie
Drew, here's to you !
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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew,
here's to you !
(U2, The Dubliners,
Kíla and A Band of Bowsies.