The Irish Rovers – Lily The Pink (Guitar)

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Recorded by The Irish Rovers [Intro]
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[Chorus]
G           C                                 G
We’ - - -ll drink a drink a drink to lily the pink the pink the pink

            Dm      G          C
The saviour of       the human race

        C                  G                 Dm         G     C
For she invented medicinal compound most efficacious in every case
[Verse 1]
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Now hears a story, a little bit gory, a little bit happy and a little bit sad

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About Lily the Pink and her medicinal compound and how it drove us raving mad
[Verse 2]
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Old Ebeneezer thought he was Julius Caesar and so they put him in a home

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And then they gave him medicinal compound and now he's Emperor of Rome
[Chorus]
G           C                                 G
We’ - - -ll drink a drink a drink to lily the pink the pink the pink

            Dm      G          C
The saviour of       the human race

        C                  G                 Dm         G     C
For she invented medicinal compound most efficacious in every case
[Verse 3]
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Fred the Gringa, the opera singah could break a glass with his voice descend

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Rubbed his tonsils with medicinal compounds, now they break glasses over his head
[Verse 4]
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Johnny Hammer had a terrible sta----mmer he could hardly sa---y a word

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And so they ga -  ve him medicinal compound now he's seen but never heard
[Chorus]
G           C                                 G
We’ - - -ll drink a drink a drink to lily the pink the pink the pink

            Dm      G          C
The saviour of       the human race

        C                  G                 Dm         G     C
For she invented medicinal compound most efficacious in every case
[Verse 5]
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Uncle Paul he, was very small he, was the shortest man in town

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Wrapped his body in medicinal compound, and now he weighs only half a crummy little pound
[Verse 6]
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Lily died and she went up to heaven all the church bells they did ring

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She took with her that medicinal compound, hark the herald angels sing
[Chorus]
G           C                                 G
We’ - - -ll drink a drink a drink to lily the pink the pink the pink

            Dm      G          C
The saviour of       the human race

        C                  G                 Dm         G     C
For she invented medicinal compound most efficacious in every case
[Chorus]
G     C                                 G
We’ll drink a drink a drink to lily the pink the pink the pink

            Dm      G          C
The saviour of       the human race

        C                  G                 Dm         G     C     G    C
For she invented medicinal compound most efficacious in every case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_the_Pink_(song)