The Juice Of The Barley Cifras

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In the sweet country Limerick one cold winter’s night
 
 
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All the turf fires were burning when I saw the light
 
 
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And a drunken old midwife was tipsy with joy
 
 
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As she danced round the floor with her slip of a boy
 
 
 
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Singing “Ban-ye na mo is an gow-na
 
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And the juice of the barley for me.”
 
 
 
 
 
Well when I was a gassoon of eight years old or so
 With me turf and me primer to school I did go
 To a dusty old school house without any door
 Where lay the school master blind drunk on the floor
 
 
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Singing “Ban-ye na mo is an gow-na
 
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And the juice of the barley for me.”
 
 
 
At the learning I wasn’t such a genius I’m thinking
 But I soon bet the master entirely at drinking
 Not a wake or a wedding for five miles around
 But meself in the corner was sure to be found
 
 
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Singing “Ban-ye na mo is an gow-na
 
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And the juice of the barley for me.”
 
 
 
One Sunday the priest read me out from the altar
 Saying “You’ll end up your days with your neck in a halter
 And you’ll dance a fine jig betwixt heaven and hell.”
And the words they did frighten, the truth for to tell
 
 
Chorus:
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Singing “Ban-ye na mo is an gow-na
 
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And the juice of the barley for me.”
 
 
 
So the very next morning as the dawn it did break
 I went down to the vestry the pledge for to take
 And there in that room sat the priests in a bunch
 Round a big roaring fire drinking tumblers of punch
 
Chorus:
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Singing “Ban-ye na mo is an gow-na
 
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And the juice of the barley for me.”
 
 
 
Well from that day to this I have wandered alone
 I’m a jack of all trades and a master of none
 With the sky for me roof and the earth for me floor
 And I’ll dance out my days drinking whiskey galore
 
Chorus:
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Singing “Ban-ye na mo is an gow-na
 
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And the juice of the barley for me.”
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