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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1052768,"song":"Irish Celebration","artist":"Macklemore & Ryan Lewis","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11232919-irish-celebration-chords-by-macklemore-ryan-lewis/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1052768?type=chord","rating":3.62517,"votes":8,"content":"Capo 2\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]   x6\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm an Irishman,   leather weathered Irish skin[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   Beard orange as the sunset over the flag[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the night sky we fly it in, pride for the life we fight to live[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   History, I write with it, spit it with the dialect[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd this is a celebration of course[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe green, white, orange[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd when they pulled up on that shore, first generation born[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nToast to those that made it on a boat to New York (New York!)[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd when the English came, the colonizer came[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey filled up bottles of gasoline, turned 'em into balls of flame[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd hurled 'em to protect what's ours,   don't touch these lucky charms [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   Whole bunch of Irish screamin' \"Fuck the London Guard\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\n   I'm kidding not dissin' London, this bloody war[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   But go against the Irish   and get a bloody jaw[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\n   Preach nonviolence but remind of the scars[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the bias, put a pint up everybody sing a song[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe put our glass to the sky and lift up[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo raise a pint for the people that aren't with us[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe put our glass to the sky and lift up[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo raise a pint for the people that aren't with us[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFrom New England to New Brunswick,   Galway to Dublin [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   A rebellious nation of freckled face hustlers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHeart, blue collared workers and family[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nMy heritage, proud to be a Haggerty[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow with whiskey in our veins,   Claiming were the bravest men[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   I drank Old Crow, but pretended it was Jameson[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\n   Dad sipped Guiness, I sipped Old English[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\n'Til he sat me down at 16 and said, \"Boy, this is what a beer is.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n   I put down the drink, I couldn't drink like a gentleman[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   That doesn't mean I couldn't make a drinkin' song for the rest of 'em[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nChallenge us in football, yeah we might lose[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut don't put us next to a bar stool[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n  We take the history, script it in song[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLight the torch then you pass it on[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat's right I said, lineage through the rhythm we script it from the palm[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nand we give til' Ireland is on, bottoms up[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe put our glass to the sky and lift up[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo raise a pint for the people that aren't with us[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe put our glass to the sky and lift up[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo raise a pint for the people that aren't with us[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya  (let's go)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  (Hey hey hey hey  hey hey   heyyyyy...)[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\ntonight we're celebrating life[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nthose are all my Irish goons in the background, put 'em up  hah![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nall the way from Ireland    to the states[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   from Dublin to Boston,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\n   Grafton to Seattle[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nmy whole Haggerty family,  this one's for you, let's go[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\n                 and all my people say[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n    all over the world[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\n   even if you aren't Irish   put your glasses up[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\n         Ryan Lewis    and all my people say[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  That's Ireland[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n           N.C.\r\nIrish Celebration\r\nN.C.\r\n and all my people say\r\n           N.C.\r\nWe put our glass to the sky and lift up\r\n              N.C.                        N.C.\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya\r\n           N.C.                            N.C.\r\nSo raise a pint for the people that aren't with us\r\n          N.C.                            N.C.\r\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya","plain_text":"Capo 2\n\n[Intro]\nC G Am F   x6\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nC  G   Am F\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\n           N.C.\nIrish Celebration\nN.C.\n and all my people say\n           N.C.\nWe put our glass to the sky and lift up\n              N.C.                        N.C.\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya\n           N.C.                            N.C.\nSo raise a pint for the people that aren't with us\n          N.C.                            N.C.\nAnd live tonight 'cause you can't take it with ya","chords":["C","G","Am","F","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}