Escrita por John Lennon, foi gravada em 1972 e lançada em 12 de junho de 1972 no disco Some time in New York City. Foi escrita no fim de 1971.
John Lennon tocou violão e cantou. Yoko cantou. Wayne Gabriel tocou violão. Stan Bronstein tocou flauta. Gary Van Scyoc tocou baixo. Adam Ippolito tocou piano e orgao. Richard Frank Jr. Tocou bateria e percussão e Jim Keltner tocou bateria.
A letra;
If
you had the luck of the Irish
You'd be sorry and wish you were
dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you
was English instead!
A thousand years of torture and
hunger
Drove the people away from their land
A land full of
beauty and wonder
Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn!
Goddamn!
If you could keep voices like flowers
There'd be
shamrock all over the world
If you could drink dreams like Irish
streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
In
the 'Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the
land
Of the pain, the death and the glory
And the poets of auld
Eireland
If we could make chains with the morning dew
The
world would be like Galway Bay
Let's walk over rainbows like
leprechauns
The world would be one big Blarney stone
Why
the hell are the English there anyway?
As they kill with God on
their side
Blame it all on the kids the IRA
As the bastards
commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide!
If you had the luck of
the Irish
You'd be sorry and wish you was dead
You should have
the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you was English instead!
Yes
you'd wish you was English instead!
A versão de John
Lennon e Yoko Ono:
A versão de Danny McEvoy:
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