A Rare Auld Time

It's three a.m. and we're down at Bridie'sThe music's grand the craic it flowsWith Wally Putt and Gard O'BrienThe best of times we've ever knownSo raise your glasses to the heavesThe O'Reilly's and the Nevin'sIt's just as well a charaThe tables are nailed downPaidi Murphy's on his secondWith McDuff and the ReverendWe're having ourselves a rare auld timeNow Thom O'Neil is going crazyHe's doing a jig now with the wifeShe doesn't know it's Friday's moneyHe's spent in Bridie's Thursday nightNow ashtrays fly and chairs fall overThere'll be hell to pay by daylightBut we don't care t'is surely liftinTo see the glint in old Thoms' eyeSo raise your glasses to the heavesThe O'Reilly's and the Nevin'sIt's just as well a charaThe tables are nailed downPaidi Murphy's on his fourthWith O'Conner and McCourtWe're having ourselves a rare auld timeAll's quiet now in Danny's cornerA drop of dew was his tasteWe miss the man since he met the coronerHis humor never went to wasteThe story goes he walks by moonshineThe auld ones hear him every nightThey say he sings down by the ditchesRaisin' hell until the break of lightSo raise your glasses to the heavesThe O'Reilly's and the Nevin'sIt's just as well a charaThe tables are nailed downPaidi Murphy's on his eighthWith Jimmy Joyce and YeatsWe're having ourselves a rare auld timeSweet Mary Clare has roses bloominThe lads are giving her the eyeBut she just wants to get back with PatrickAfter telling him goodbyeNow Gerry Byrne has called for ciunasHis Kate has fallen in a trancea voice so pure t'would give ya shiversBut soon she'll break into a danceSo raise your glasses to the heavesThe O'Reilly's and the Nevin'sIt's just as well a charaThe tables are nailed downPaidi Murphy's on his ninthDylan Thomas, Oscar WildeWe're havin' ourselves a rare auld timeGood ol' Murphy's on his tenthJaysus Behan's really bentIt's just as well a chara the tables are nailed downSean O' Casey, KavanaughHow the hell is Ballina?We're having ourselves a rare auld timeNow it's Murphy's on his backBehan's having one on JackIt's just as well a chara the tables are nailed downNow it's Behan's on the floorMurphy's callin' out for moreWe're havin' ourselves a rare auldWe're havin' ourselves a rare auldWe're havin' ourselves a rare auld time