My Land Is so Green - Mary Coughlan

My land is bogged down in religious tradition

We nod our heads in humble submission

One foot in the door a hand in your pocket

We export our problems for foreign solutions

My land is naive too scared of the devil

Holier than thou with eyes up to heaven

When nobody looks we tear strips off our neighbour

And to have a good laugh at it all in the end

Shrouded and mist the outlook’s appalling

Pressure is rising but temperature’s falling

Sunny spells and scattered showers

But still it rains for hours and hours

And as the floods rise we drown our sorrows

Tossing them back like there is no tomorrow

And in the end we’ll stick or stand

And p___ it back to the bog holes of Ireland

My land is too full of incurable scheming

The promises given are nothing but dreaming

We all love a rogue we’ll make him our leader

And every four years it’s right back to zero

My land is still poor and underdeveloped

We talk round our problems for hours on end

And then we decide there’s two sides to the story

And have a good laugh at it all in the end

Shrouded in mist the outlook’s appalling

Pressure is rising but temperature’s falling

Sunny spells and scattered showers

And still it rains for hours and hours

And as the floods rise we drown our sorrows

Tossing them back like there is no tomorrow

And in the end we will sit or stand

And p___ it back to the bog holes of Ireland