| Well I met her up on Leeson Street of a Tuesday afternoon
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| In Summer’s fallen colours, sulking back to school
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| I asked her would she linger, and she asked me would she stay
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| Would she keep a girl in company, drinking in the day?
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| Drinking, Drinking
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| Drinking… not thinking
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| Drinking, Drinking
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| We’ll go drinking in the day
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| She was almost a woman, she was going on sixteen
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| She asked me to go walking, In Saint Stephen’s Green
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| She said I love the sunshine, and to hear the children play
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| But I won’t be distracted when I’m drinking in the day
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| With her flashing eyes and milk white lies she looked like a song
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| Like the ghost of a woman that first made me go wrong
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| She said I’ll have a drink with you but I said you’ll have to pay
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| For a comprehensive education
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| Drinking in the day
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| Drinking, Drinking
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| Drinking and not thinking
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| Drinking, Drinking
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| We’ll go drinking in the day
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| If her mother could have seen us on that bright November day
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| Botticelli and his angel perambulating Ormand Quay
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| A drunken blessed virgin, me rhetorious and gay
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| Bestowing ancient wisdom as to what made me this way
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| Well here it is:
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| Deny your friends and family
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| To serve you must betray
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| Break and enter heaven
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| Well you’ll steal but never save
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| Well you’ll squander every penny
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| And you’ll empty every heart
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| And you’ll travel every darkened road
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| You’ll never finish what you start
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| And you’ll always talk to strangers
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| And make love with whom you may
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| For God will find good company
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| For your drinking in the day
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| Drinking, drinking
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| Drinking and not thinking
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| Drinking, drinking
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| We’ll go drinking in the day
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| So spend your youth on poetry, and spend your cash at play
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| Every line upon my face is for a girl who went away
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| A kiss, and a song, are fleeting things and fame will always stray
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| So I’ll tell the truth, the best spent youth, is the one you throw away
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| Drinking, drinking
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| Drinking… not thinking
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| Drinking, drinking
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| We’ll go drinking in the day
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| Drinking, drinking
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| Drinking… not thinking
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| Drinking, drinking
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| We’ll go drinking in the day
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| Drinking, drinking
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| Drinking… not thinking
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| Drinking, drinking
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| We’ll go drinking in the day
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| Drinking, drinking
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| Drinking… not thinking
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| Drinking, drinking
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| We’ll go drinking in the day
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| Drinking, drinking
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| Drinking… not thinking
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| Drinking, drinking
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| We’ll go drinking in the day
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| Drinking, drinking
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| Drinking… not thinking
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| Drinking… |