Irish Celebration

C G Am F 6x C G I'm an Irishman, leather weathered Irish skin Am F Beard orange as the sunset over the flag C G In the night sky we fly it in, pride for the life we fight to live Am F History, I write with it, spit it with the dialect C G And this is a celebration of course Am F The green, white, orange C G And when they pulled up on that shore, first generation born Am F Toast to those that made it on a boat to New York (New York!) C G And when the English came, the colonizer came Am F They filled up bottles of gasoline, turned 'em into balls of flame C G And hurled 'em to protect what's ours, don't touch these lucky charms Am F Whole bunch of Irish screamin' "F**k the London Guard" C G I'm kidding not dissin' London, this bloody war Am F But go against the Irish and get a bloody jaw C G Preach nonviolence but remind of the scars Am F And the bias, put a pint up everybody sing a song C G Am F C G We put our glass to the sky and lift up Am F And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya C G So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us Am F And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya C G We put our glass to the sky and lift up Am F And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya C G So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us Am F And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya C G From New England to New Brunswick, Galway to Dublin Am F A rebellious nation of freckled face hustlers C G Heart, blue collared workers and family Am F My heritage, proud to be a Haggerty C G Now with whiskey in our veins, Claiming were the bravest men Am F I drank Old Crow, but pretended it was Jameson C G Dad sipped Guiness, I sipped Old English Am F 'Til he sat me down at 16 and said, "Boy, this is what a beer is." C G I put down the drink, I couldn't drink like a gentleman Am F That doesn't mean I couldn't make a drinkin' song for the rest of 'em C G Challenge us in football, yeah we might lose Am F But don't put us next to a bar stool C G We take the history, script it in song Am G Light the torch then you pass it on C G That's right I said, lineage through the rhythm we script it from the palm Am F and we give til' Ireland is on, bottoms up C G We put our glass to the sky and lift up Am F And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya C G So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us Am F And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya C G We put our glass to the sky and lift up Am F And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya C G So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us Am F And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya (let's go) C G Am F (Hey hey hey hey hey hey heyyyyy...) C tonight we're celebrating life G Am F those are all my Irish goons in the background, put 'em up hah! C G all the way from Ireland to the states Am F from Dublin to Boston, C G Grafton to Seattle Am F my whole Haggerty family, this one's for you, let's go C G Am F and all my people say C G all over the world Am F C even if you aren't Irish put your glasses up G Am F Ryan Lewis and all my people say C G Am F That's Ireland N.C. Irish Celebration N.C. and all my people say N.C. We put our glass to the sky and lift up N.C. N.C. And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya N.C. N.C. So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us N.C. N.C. And live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya