#music, Here’s Johnny…

Arguably one of the icons of the 60’s 70’s and beyond. I’m not going to say he was the leader of The Beatles because I think that honour really goes to Paul, but John certainly was a force to be reckoned with during those years when the lads was fab…

After The Beatles, well, his life was shortened but in close to ten years he did some good things and a lot of rubbish too. But here is one not heard of too much (maybe because it says too many truths) but that I think is a little jewel (in spite of Yoko’s vocals).

THE LUCK OF THE IRISH

Ok, one, two, three, one two, three

If you had the luck of the Irish,
You’d be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you’d wish you was English instead
A thousand years of torture and hunger
Drove the people away from their land
A land full of beauty and wonder
Was raped by the British brigands
Goddamned
Goddamned

If you could keep voices like flowers
There’s be shamrock all over the world
If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
Then the world would be as high as the mountain of morn

In the ‘pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land
Of the pain and the death and the glory
And the poets of auld Eireland

If we could make chains with the morning dew
The world would be like Galway Bay
Let’s walk over rainbows like leprechauns
The world would be one big blarney stone

Why the hell are the English there anyway?
As they kill with God on their side
Blame it all on the kids and the I.R.A.
As the bastards commit genocide
Aye, aye
Genocide
Okay

You should have the luck of the Irish,
You’d be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you’d wish you was English instead
One more time
You should have the luck of the Irish,
You’d be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you’d wish you was English instead
Hey, yes, you’d wish you were English instead

CHEERS…