Seven Nations - A Rare Auld Time Lyrics

A Rare Auld Time

(Written by Kirk McLeod and Aiden McGovern, arranged by Kirk McLeod)



It's three a.m. and we're down at Bridie's

The music's grand the craic it flows

With Wally Putt and Gard O'Brien

The best of times we've ever known



So raise your glasses to the heaves

The O'Reilly's and the Nevin's

It's just as well a chara

The tables are nailed down

Paidi Murphy's on his second

With McDuff and the Reverend

We're having ourselves a rare auld time



Now Thom O'Neil is going crazy

He's doing a jig now with the wife

She doesn't know it's Friday's money

He's spent in Bridie's Thursday night



Now ashtrays fly and chairs fall over

There'll be hell to pay by daylight

But we don't care t'is surely liftin'

To see the glint in old Thoms' eye



So raise your glasses to the heaves

The O'Reilly's and the Nevin's

It's just as well a chara

The tables are nailed down

Paidi Murphy's on his fourth

With O'Conner and McCourt

We're having ourselves a rare auld time



All's quiet now in Danny's corner

A drop of dew was his taste

We miss the man since he met the coroner

His humor never went to waste



The story goes he walks by moonshine

The auld ones hear him every night

They say he sings down by the ditches

Raisin' hell until the break of light



So raise your glasses to the heaves

The O'Reilly's and the Nevin's

It's just as well a chara

The tables are nailed down

Paidi Murphy's on his eighth

With Jimmy Joyce and Yeats

We're having ourselves a rare auld time



Sweet Mary Clare has roses bloomin'

The lads are giving her the eye

But she just wants to get back with Patrick

After telling him goodbye



Now Gerry Byrne has called for ciunas

His Kate has fallen in a trance

a voice so pure t'would give ya shivers

But soon she'll break into a dance



So raise your glasses to the heaves

The O'Reilly's and the Nevin's

It's just as well a chara

The tables are nailed down

Paidi Murphy's on his ninth

Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde

We're havin' ourselves a rare auld time



Good ol' Murphy's on his tenth

Jaysus Behan's really bent

It's just as well a chara the tables are nailed down

Sean O' Casey, Kavanaugh

How the hell is Ballina?

We're having ourselves a rare auld time



Now it's Murphy's on his back

Behan's having one on Jack

It's just as well a chara the tables are nailed down

Now it's Behan's on the floor

Murphy's callin' out for more

We're havin' ourselves a rare auld

We're havin' ourselves a rare auld

We're havin' ourselves a rare auld time