U2 – The Ballad Of Ronnie Drew (Guitar)

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Here's to the Ronnie, the voice we adore

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Like coals from a coal bucket scraping the floor

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Sing out his praises in music and malt

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And if you're not Irish, that isn't your fault

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Raise up our voices like dogs in a pack

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Grateful for honest men we never lack

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We got 'em by twenties, we got 'em by ones

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Them and their daughters and all of their sons

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew

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Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes we do

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you

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And what's it to any man whether or no'

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Whether I'm easy or whether I'm true

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As I lifted her petticoat easy and slow

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And I tied up me sleeve for to buckle her shoe

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Get up and go at it, five until five

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When the whistle says budge it we come back alive

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He'll sing to the heavens, he's stormy as hell

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And wherever he goes, we'll be wishing him well

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew

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Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes we do

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you

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The dawn and the dust, the wise, the unjust

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Kids in gambling games

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The unheard, the unseen, the unwashed and unclean

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Where the streets all have names

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Baggot Street, Leeson Street, right on to Stephen's Green

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With lovers and loners who can hear all intoners

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The goths and the ravers, immigrants and traders

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Sing out Ronnie Drew

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A eye for a eye or a hand for a hand

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Trust in the music and strike up the band

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The more that we sing the less that we fight

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Time and again this is proved to be right

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Build you a statue on St. Stephen's Green

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No fairer monument ere to be seen

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The statue of Ronnie Drew holding the hand

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Of a girl with her hair in a black velvet band

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew

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Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes we do

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you,

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Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you