Here you'll find the funny and surprisingly often meaningful lyrics of their songs
1. Lanigans Ball
2. How's She Cuttin, Pat ?
3. The Railway Hotel
4. Family Tradition
5. The Oldest Swinger in Town
Lanigan's Ball
Friends right here on the bowron this is Julia
In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lanigan
Battered away 'til he hadn't a pound.
His father he died , made him a man again
Left him a farm and ten acres of ground.
He gave a grand party to friends and relations
Who didn't forget him when come to the wall,
And if you'll but listen I'll make your eyes glisten
Of the rows and the ruptions of Lanigan's Ball.
Chorus: Six long months I spent in Dublin,
six long months doin nothin at all.
Six long months I spent in Dublin,
learning to dance for Lanigan's ball.
I stepped out and I stepped in again,
I stepped in and I stepped out again,
I stepped out and I stepped in again,
Learning to dance for Lanigan's Ball.
Myself to be sure got free invitation,
For all the nice girls and boys I might ask,
And just in a minute both friends and relations
Were dancing 'round merry as bees 'round a cask.
There were lashings of punch and wine for the ladies
, Potatoes and cakes; there was bacon and tea,
There were the Nolans, Dolans, O'Gradys
Courting the girls and dancing away.
,They were doing all kinds of nonsensical polka
s All 'round the room in a whirligig.
Till Julia and I soon banished their nonsense
And tipped them a twist of a real Irish jig.
Oh how that girl she got mad at me
Danced 'til you'd think the ceiling would fall.
For I spent three weeks at Brooks' Academy
Learning the steps for Lanigan's Ball.
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The Boys were as merry , the girls all hearty
Dancing together in couples and groups,
'Til an accident happened, young Terrance McCarthy
He Put his right leg through miss Finnerty's hoops.
The creature she fainted and cried, ``Meelia murther,''
Called for her brothers and gathered them all.
Carmody swore that he'd go no further
He'd have satisfaction at Lanigan's Ball.
In the midst of the row miss Kerrigan fainted,
Her cheeks at the same time as red as a rose.
Some of the boys decreed she was painted,
She took a small drop too much, I suppose.
Her sweetheart, Ned Morgan, so powerful and able,
When he saw his fair colleen stretched be the wall,
HetTore the left leg from under the table
And smashed all the Dishes at Lanigan's Ball.
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Boys, oh boys, 'twas then there were ruptions.
I took a lick from young Phelim McHugh.
I soon replied to his fine introduction
And kicked up a terrible hullabaloo.
Old Casey, the piper, he nearly got strangled.
They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all.
The girls, in their ribbons, they got all entangled
And that put an end to Lanigan's Ball.
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How's she cuttin Pat?
How's she cuttin ?
It's a fine how do ya do
That the people you're talkin ta
don't talk the same as you
Though the talkin may be different
the meaning's just the same
How's she cuttin from the Bairds
O'Leary's the name
Did you ever hear people say 'Hello there have a nice day'
What they really mean is how she cuttin?
And your man with the bowler hat says 'How do you do old chap'
What he really means is how she cuttin?
Chorus: How she cuttin Pat
Will ya tell me that
Did ya save the hay
Did the pigs get fat
We're ya up all night
Say ya feelin cat
How's it goin there
How's she cuttin?
Most people seem to think that a nods as good as a wink
But There's simply no mistaking how she cuttin?
And There's no use you beeing shy when you're lookin your one in the eye
Make your meaning clear boy
Hows she cuttin?
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Some people seem to greet ya 'Well hello please to meet ya'
What they really mean is how she cuttin?
I've seen Cead Mile Failte signs a hundred thousand times
But the sign I prefer is mine How is she cuttin?
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The Raiway Hotel
We went to the room and we bolted the door
the base from the juke box was comming through the floor
and out through the walls we could still hear the roar, of the trains
Now is this all the comfort that we got for our sins
no candles no waitors no soft violins
just the dirty electric convector plugged in, to the mains
I wanted much more for the first night with you
but the Railway hotel was the best i could do
I new the Savoy would have suited you well
but the best I could do was the Railway hotel
Away in the sky were the lights of a jet
burning in the night like a slow cigarette
and the lamp on the street threw a soft silhoutte on the walls
I wanted much more for the first night with you
but the Railway Hotel was the best i could do
I new the Savoy would have suited you well
but the best I could do was the Railway hotel
And though it was crumbling, run down and dead
a chair, a sink and an oul single bed
yet the love we began and the things that we said I recall
I wanted much more for the first night with you
but the Railway Hotel was the best i could do
I new the Savoy would have suited you well
but the best I could do was the Railway hotel
I wanted much more for the first night with you
but the Railway Hotel was the best i could do
I new the Savoy would have suited you well
but the best I could do was the Railway hotel
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Family Tradition
Now the village that I come from it's a real close family
but lately some of the neighbours have disowned a few others and me
now it could be drink or women that has altered their position
see I'm the bloke that went and broke that oul family tradition
Why do ya drink
why do ya smoke
why dont u change your ways and start sipping coke
Every woman that I've known she's ended up in that condition
Ah when I get tight I stay up all night it's a family tradition
Now I confess I've loved some women
and I've drank some wine
and the two of them nearly killed me back in 1989
Now when the doctor asked me Diarmuid how did ya get into that condition
Ah Doctor John I'm only carrying on an oul family tradition
Why do ya drink
why do ya smoke
why dont u change your ways and start sipping coke
Every woman that I've known she's ended up in that condition
Ah when I get tight I stay up all night it's a family tradition
I nearly killed meself drinking porter in the town of Featherd on Sea
with a crowd of the local cowboys that could drink alot more than me
does a lepard change his spots I think I'll stick with my position
I'll sing ya a song and stay up all night long its a family tradition
Why do ya drink
why do ya smoke
why dont u change your ways and start sipping coke
Every woman that I've known she's ended up in that condition
Ah when I get tight I stay up all night it's a family tradition
Come on girls lets yodle
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The Oldest Swinger in Town
When u score with a chick in a disco bar
take her home in your hairy litlle car
then u find u went to school with her ma and pa
Youre the oldest swinger in town
and u wont look in the mirror in the light of day
swear u died it when your hair turns grey
when u zip up your trousers and your belly's in the way
Your the oldest swinger in town
her u come and there u go
wide wheels, spots and a stereo
but the engine's cracked and the driver is too
You're the oldest swinger in town
When the barber takes a little less time each week
the kids dont understand a word u speak
when u walk into a disco and they offer u a seat
You're the oldest swinger in town
U prefer a pint of shandy to bacardi and coke
the sounds are too loud , theres too much smoke
You'd like another dance but you're afraid you'll get a stroke
You're the oldest swinger in town
Here ya come with your chest all bare
a little gold inget and a lot of gold hair
like the disco king meets yogi bear
You're the oldest swinger in town
When your feelin as stiff as a skin heads boot
rub on vick where u used to splash brute
and the latest punk fashion is your old weddin' suit
You're the oldest swinger in town
When you have to go shopping for your sex appeal
Travolta shades and nine inch heels
they say a man is just as old as the woman he feels
Your the Oldest Swinger in Town
And u look so mean cos your pants is too tight
Youre the Oldest swinger in Town
and it takes u all night to do what u used to do all night
You're the oldest swinger in town
Oh yeah
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