It's A Great Day For The Irish - Lyrics

Lyrics

Oh, I woke me up this morning and I heard a joyful song

From the throats of happy Irishmen, a hundred thousand strong

Sure it was the Hibernian Brigade

Lining up for to start the big parade

So I fetched me Sunday bonnet and the flag I love so well

And I bought meself a shamrock just to wear in me lapel

Don't you know that today's March seventeen?

It's the day for the wearing of the green...........

It's a great day for the Irish, it's a great day for fair

The side-walks of New York are thick with Blarney

For shure you'd think New York was Old Killarney

Begosh and begorragh, every Irish son and daughter

Every good old Irish name and their relation

They come from Tipperary, Donegal and County Kerry,

They are all here to join the celebration..........

There's Connolly and Donnelly, Ryan, O'Brien,

McLoughlin and Lynch, Pat Flannigan, McFadden, McPhearson and Finch

Hogan and Logan, Fitzpatrick, O'Bannigan, Danny O'Doole and Seamus O'Tool!

(note the Garland version includes a fast paced additional litany of names at this point)

It's a great day for the Shamrock, for the flags in full array

We're feeling so inspirish, shure because for all the Irish

It's a great, great day.....

It's a great day for the Irish, it's a great day for fair

Begosh, there's not a cop to stop a raiding

Begorrah all the cops are out parading

It's a great day for the Shamrock, for the flags in full array

And as we go a-swinging, every Irish heart is singing

It's a great, great day........