Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well I met her up on Leeson Street of a Tuesday afternoon
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In Summer's fallen colours,
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sulking back to school
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I asked her would she linger,
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and she asked me would she stay
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Would she keep a girl in company,
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drinking in the day?
Verse 2
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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
Verse 3
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She was almost a woman,
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she was go ing on sixteen
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She asked me to go walking,
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In Saint Stephen's Green
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She said I love the sunshine,
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and to hear the children play.
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But I won't be distracted when
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I'm drinking in the day.
Verse 4
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With her flashing eyes and milk
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white lies she looked like a song
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Like the ghost of a woman that first
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She said I'll have a drink with you
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but I said you'll have to pay
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For a comprehensive education
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Drinking in the day
Verse 5
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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
Verse 6
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If her mother could have seen us
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on that bright November day
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Botticelli and his angel peram
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bulating Or mand Quay
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A drunken blessed virgin,
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me rhetorious and gay
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Bestowing ancient wisdom as
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to what made me this way
Verse 7
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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
Verse 8
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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
Verse 9
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So spend your youth on poetry,
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and spend your cash at play
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Every line upon my face is
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for a girl who went away
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are fleeting things and fame will always stray
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So I'll tell the truth, the be st spent youth,
Verse 10
Drinking... not thinking
Verse 11
We'll go drinking in the day
Drinking... not thinking
Verse 12
We'll go drinking in the day
Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day
Verse 13
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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
Drinking, drinking
Verse 14
We'll go drinking in the day
Drinking... not thinking
Drinking... not thinking
Drinking...
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