Irish Celebration-Macklemore & Ryan Lewis/Macklemore

[00:41.710]I'm an Irishman [00:42.800] [00:43.650]Leather weathered Irish skin [00:45.620]Beard orange as the sunset over the flag [00:47.950]In the night sky we fly it in [00:49.930]Pride for the life we fight to live [00:51.570]History, I write with it [00:52.950]Spit it with the dialect [00:54.630]And this is a celebration of course [00:57.720]The green, white, orange [01:00.560]And when they pulled up on that shore [01:02.400]First generation born [01:03.960]Toast to those that made it [01:05.680]on a boat to New York [01:07.000]And when the English [01:08.040]came the colonizer came [01:10.140]They filled up bottles of gasoline, [01:12.440]turned 'em into balls of flame [01:14.030]And hurled 'em to protect what's ours [01:15.560]Don't touch these lucky charms [01:17.170]Whole bunch of Irish screaming [01:19.240]"**** the London Guard" [01:21.190]I'm kidding not dissin' [01:22.410]London, this bloody war [01:23.680]But go against the Irish [01:25.350]and get a bloody jaw [01:27.050]Preaching nonviolence [01:28.220]but reminds of the scars [01:29.700]And the bias, put a pint up [01:31.540]everybody sing a song [01:39.330]We put our glass to the sky and lift up [01:42.180]And live tonight [01:43.370]'cause you can't take it with ya [01:45.420]So raise a pint for the people [01:47.250]that aren't with us [01:48.610]And live tonight [01:49.460]'cause you can't take it with ya [01:51.850]We put our glass to the sky and lift up [01:55.030]And live tonight [01:55.950]'cause you can't take it with ya [01:58.240]So raise a pint for the people [02:00.060]that aren't with us [02:01.410]And live tonight [02:02.220]'cause you can't take it with ya [02:05.120]From New England to New Brunswick [02:06.540] [02:07.100]Galway to Dublin [02:08.390]A rebellious nation of freckled face hustlers [02:11.720]Heart, blue collared workers and family [02:14.850]My heritage, proud to be a Haggerty [02:17.600]Now with whiskey in our veins [02:19.630]Claiming were the bravest men [02:21.410]I drank Old Crow, [02:22.750]but pretended it was Jameson [02:24.560]Dad sipped Guiness, [02:26.120]I sipped Old English [02:27.450]'Til he sat me down at 16 and said "boy, [02:29.880]this is what a beer is" [02:31.230]I put down the drink, [02:32.390]couldn't drink like a gentleman [02:34.230]That doesn't mean [02:35.000]I can't make a drinking song for the rest of 'em [02:37.330]Challenge us in football, [02:38.920]yeah we might lose [02:40.310]But don't put us next to a bar stool [02:43.180] [02:44.480]We take the history, script it in song [02:46.660]Light the torch then you pass it on [02:49.220]That's right I said, [02:50.470]lineage through the rhythm [02:51.860]we script it from the palm [02:53.170]And we give til' Ireland is on [02:54.810] [02:55.400]Bottoms Up [02:56.300]We put our glass to the sky and lift up [02:59.080]And live tonight [03:00.180]'cause you can't take it with ya [03:02.320]So raise a pint for the people [03:04.250]that aren't with us [03:05.490]And live tonight [03:06.400]'cause you can't take it with ya [03:08.750]We put our glass to the sky and lift up [03:12.020]And live tonight [03:12.890]'cause you can't take it with ya [03:15.190]So raise a pint for the people [03:16.960]that aren't with us [03:18.400]And live tonight [03:19.210]'cause you can't take it with ya [03:21.600]Let's go [03:22.250] [03:22.910]Hey~