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Well I met her up on |
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Leeson Street of a |
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Tuesday afternoon |
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In Summer's fallen colours, sulking back to school |
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I asked her would she linger, and she asked me would she stay |
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Would she keep a girl in company, drinking in the day? |
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Drinking, |
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Drinking Drinking... not thinking |
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Drinking, |
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Drinking We'll go drinking in the day |
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She was almost a woman, she was going on sixteen |
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She asked me to go walking, |
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In Saint Stephen's |
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Green She said |
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I love the sunshine, and to hear the children play. |
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But I won't be distracted when |
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I'm drinking in the day. |
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With her flashing eyes and milk white lies she looked like a song |
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Like the ghost of a woman that first made me go wrong |
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She said I'll have a drink with you but |
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I said you'll have to pay |
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For a comprehensive education |
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Drinking in the day |
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Drinking, |
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Drinking Drinking and not thinking |
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Drinking, |
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Drinking We'll go drinking in the day |
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If her mother could have seen us on that bright |
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November day |
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Botticelli and his angel perambulating |
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Ormand Quay |
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A drunken blessed virgin, me rhetorious and gay |
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Bestowing ancient wisdom as to what made me this way |
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Well here it is: |
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Deny your friends and family |
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To serve you must betray |
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Break and enter heaven |
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Well you'll steal but never save |
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Well you'll squander every penny |
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And you'll empty every heart |
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And you'll travel every darkened road |
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You'll never finish what you start |
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And you'll always talk to strangers |
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And make love with whom you may |
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For God will find good company for your drinking in the day |
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Drinking, drinking |
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Drinking and not thinking |
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Drinking, drinking |
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We'll go drinking in the day |
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So spend your youth on poetry, and spend your cash at play |
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Every line upon my face is for a girl who went away |
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A kiss, and a song, are fleeting things and fame will always stray |
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So I'll tell the truth, the best spent youth, is the one you throw away |
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Drinking, drinking |
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Drinking... not thinking |
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Drinking, drinking |
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We'll go drinking in the day |
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Drinking, drinking |
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Drinking... not thinking |
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Drinking, drinking |
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We'll go drinking in the day |
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Drinking, drinking |
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Drinking... not thinking |
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Drinking, drinking |
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We'll go drinking in the day |
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Drinking, drinking |
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Drinking... not thinking |
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Drinking, drinking |
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We'll go drinking in the day |
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Drinking, drinking |
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Drinking... not thinking |
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Drinking, drinking |
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We'll go drinking in the day |
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Drinking, drinking |
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Drinking... not thinking |
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Drinking... |
