[ti:The Luck Of The Irish(Live)(Acoustic)] [ar:John Lennon] [al:Acoustic] [offset:500] [00:00.00]John Lennon - The Luck Of The Irish(Live)(Acoustic) [00:14.32] [00:16.32]If you had the luck of the Irish [00:20.96]You'd be sorry and wish you were dead [00:25.53]You should have the luck of the Irish [00:30.11]And you'd wish you was English instead! [00:33.73] [00:37.22]A thousand years of torture and hunger [00:41.71]Drove the people away from their land [00:46.79]A land full of beauty and wonder [00:51.25]Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn! [00:56.86] [00:58.44]If you could keep voices like flowers [01:02.96]There'd be shamrock all over the world [01:07.79]If you could drink dreams like Irish streams [01:12.45]Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn [01:17.83] [01:20.82]In the 'Pool they told us the story [01:25.47]How the English divided the land [01:30.30]Of the pain, the death and the glory [01:34.88]And the poets of auld Eireland [01:38.62] [01:39.67]If we could make chains with the morning dew [01:44.42]The world would be like Galway Bay [01:49.18]Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns [01:53.93]The world would be one big Blarney stone [01:59.00] [02:02.48]Why the hell are the English there anyway? [02:07.19]As they kill with God on their side [02:12.06]Blame it all on the kids the IRA [02:16.75]As the bastards commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide! [02:22.90] [02:42.95][02:23.85]If you had the luck of the Irish [02:47.80][02:28.55]You'd be sorry and wish you was dead [02:52.62][02:33.37]You should have the luck of the Irish [02:57.40][02:38.15]And you'd wish you was English instead! [03:02.45]Yes you'd wish you was English instead! [03:10.47]