The Luck Of The Irish
Gilbert O'Sullivan

One and one and two are three
If you adhere to Irish logic
That's just one of the many jokes of which
the Irish are the topic
You can talk about the luck of but in
truth there's not a lot

So we have this reputation of being
as thick two short planks
And although George Bernard Shaw was Irish he's an Englishman No we don't live in houses that are otherwise known as bars Yes we do have other transport besides donkeys and carts Go to Dublin day or night And see for yourself there's not a bog in sight

In America the joke about the irishman would die There for some peculiar season it's the polish they decry Bet in sweden it's norwegians and in norway it's the danes And it's a fallacy to think that irish people drink the most when in njoy germany alone their beer consumption unapproached As for britian far from being sober they would enjoy thier drink But to call an enghlishman a drunk would be an awful thing What you need todo for that is a chap named pat and the luck of the irish Kiss the blarney stone but get down on your back to do it Okay on the surface I admit it does seem rather stupid But you mustn't judge a book by all accounts But by what's underneath it's Cover up your daughters what they don't see they won't miss Remember contraception is despair but ignorance is bliss The church will tell you what you should and what you shouldn't do is argue with it Shergar's body been exhumed by irish terrorists today If the ransom isn't paid out then his life may not be saved No we don't live in houses that a
re otherwise known as bars Yes we do have other transport besides donkeys and carts Go to Dublin day or night And see for yourself there's not a bog in sight The luck of the irsh

Kiss the blarney stone but get down on your back to do it Okay on the surface I admit it does seem rather stupid But you mustn't judge a book by all accounts But by what's underneath it's Cover up your daughters what they don't see they won't miss Remember contraception is despair but ignorance is bliss The church will tell you what you should and what you shouldn't do is argue with it


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  15 Times   A Friend of Mine   A Love So   A Minute Of Your Time   A Sight For Sore Eyes   A Very Extraordinary Sort of Girl   A Woman's Place   Ain't No Telling (What Tomorrow Will Bring)   Alone Again   Alone Again (Naturally)   Alone Again Naturally   Always Somebody   Answers On A Postcard   Anytime   Are You Happy?   As A Rule   As Long As I Can   At Least I'm Honest   At The Very Mention Of Your Name   Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Such Is Life)   Bear With Me   Because Of You   Break A Leg 1   Break A Leg 2   Break It To Me Gently   Breakfast Dinner And Tea   But I'm Not   Bye-Bye   Call on Me   Came And Went   Came To See Me Yesterday   Came To see Me Yesterday (In The Merry Month Of)   Can I Go with You   Can't Find My Way Home   Can't Get Enough Of You   Can't Get Enought of You (Another Version)   Can't Get You Out Of My Mind   Can't Get You To Love Me   Can't Think Straight   Can't Think Straight - Spanish Version   Christmas Song   Clair   Clair   Con Lab Lib   Dear Dream   Disappear   Dishonorable Profession   Divorce Irish Style   Doesn't It Make You Sick   Doesn't It Make You Sick (Mortar and Brick)   Doing the Best I Can   Doing What I Know   Don't Bother At All   Don't I Know It   Don't You Ever Change Your Mind   Down, Down, Down   Easier Said Than Done   Everybody Knows   Fine By Me   For What It's Worth   Forever Wondering   Get Down   Get Down   Get Down   Get Out Of My Life   God Forbid   Going Home   Good Company   Gordon Bennett   Got To Be That Way   Happiness Is Me and You   Happiness Is Me And You   Has Been   Have It   Having Said That   Heaven's Above   Hello, It's Goodbye   Help Is On The Way   Hold on to What You Got   Hold On To What You've Got   Houdini Said   How I Say That I love You   I Can Give You   I Didn't Know What To Do   I Don't Care   I Don't Love You But I Think I Like You   I Don't Mind   I Don't Trust Men With Earrings In Their Ears   I Gave Mine To You   I Have My Coat To Keep Me Warm   I Have Never Loved You As Much As I Love You Today   I Have Never Loved You As Much I Love You Today   I Hope You'll Stay   I Love It But   I Promise Honest   I Wish I Could Cry   I Wonder Would You Mind   I'll Be The Lonely One   I'll Believe It When I See It   I'll Never Let You Go   I'm A Writer not a Fighter   I'm About   I'm In Love   I'm in Love (With You)   I'm leaving   I'm Not Getting Any Younger   I'm Not Too Young   I've Never Been Short Of A Smile   If I Can't Have You All To Myself   If I Don't Get You   If I Don't Get You (Back Again)   If I Know You   If I Start With The Chorus   If You Commence Before The Start   If You Ever   If You Love Me Like You Love Me   In a Nutshell   In Bed By Ten   In My Hole   In Other Words   Independent Air   Intro   Intro (back to front)   Intro (Himself)   Introduction   Introduction (southpaw)   Is It A Crime?   It Ain't For Me   It Never Rains But It Pours   It's Easy To See When You're Blind   It's Easy To See When Your Blind   It's So Easy To Be Sad   January Git   Just As You Are   Just Like Me   Live Now Pay Later   Looking   Looking (At Tale Of Two Meanings)   Lost A Friend   Love Being Faxed By You   Make My Day   Matrimony   Matrimony   Me   Me -Reprise   Minute of Your Time   Miss My Love   Miss My Love Today   Mr. And Mrs. Regard   Mr. Moody's Garden   My Advice To You   My Father   My Front Door Is   My Love And I   No Matter How I Try   No Matter How I Try   No More   No Telling Why   Nobody Wants To Know   Not in a Million Years   Not So Great Britain   Not That It Bothers Me   Nothing Rhymed   Nothing Rhymed   Nothing To Do About Much   Nothing To Fear   Number 4   Oh Why,Oh Why,Oh Why   Oh-Wakka-Do-Wakka-Day   Ooh Baby   Ooh Baby   Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day   Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day   Or So They Say   Our Own Baby   Out of the Question   Out of the Question   Outro (back to front)   Outro (Himself)   Outtro   Outtro (back to front)   Parrish   Passport Photos   Permissive Twit   Please Don't Let My Weakness Show   Pretty Polly   Save It   Say Goodbye   Say Ireland   Sex Appeal   Showbiz   Showbiz (Reprise)   Shy   So What   So What   Sometimes   Stick In the Mud   Susan Van Heusen   Taking a Chance on Love   Tell Me Why   That's A Fact   That's Love   That's Were I Belong   That's Why I Love You   Thats   The Best Fun I Ever Had   The Best Love I Never Had   The Christmas Song   The Golden Rule   The Marriage Machine   The Niceness Of It All   The Niceness Of It All (Another Version)   The Thing Is   The Way Things Used To Be   The Window's Cleaner's Mate   They've Only Themselves to Blame   Things That Go Bump In The Night   Thunder and Lightning   To Cut a Long Story Short   To Each His Own   To The Extreme   Tomorrow Today   Too Bad   Too Long   Too Long (Unreleased)   Too Much Attention   Two's Company   Two's Company (Three Is Allowed)   Underneath the Blanket Go   Underneath the Blanket Go [Original Demo][#]   Victor E   Water Music   We Will   We Will   What A Way   What Am I Am Doing Here With You?   What Am I Doing Here With You   What Can I Do   What Could Be Nicer   What You See Is What You Get   What's In A Kiss   What's In A Kiss (Another Version)   What's It All Supposed To Mean?   When to Today   When Today   Where Peaceful Waters Flow   Where The Hell Have You Been   Who Knows, Perhaps Maybe   Who Was It   Who Was It   Why Oh Why Oh Why   Why Pretend   Why, Oh Why, Oh Why   Will I Do?   Wonder Why   You Are You   You Better Believe It   You Better Run   You Don't Have To Tell Me   You Don't Own Me   You Don't Own Me/If I Know You   You Got Me Going   You Never Listen To Reason   Young At Heart   Young at Heart (We'll Always Remain)

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