'Eight Beers' McGee - The Rumjacks

With heavy heart and steady hand

I’m puttin' pen to paper father dear

I trust these words’ll find you

And pray that you can read 'em through your tears

It’s said a man that’s born to sing

Can scare away his woes

And banish all his anger and his pain

But the screamin' in my head

Killed the singin' in my soul

And I fear I’ll never recall the tune again

I’ve trouble with the sleepin'

My shadows weight impossible to bear

I hear my Sister weepin'

And callin' to me from that other where

The names of them I loved

Are carved into my skin

The greatest crew a fighter ever had

They call us gypsy bastards

And say it like it’s sin

That all our wars are merry

And all our songs are sad

Tell 'em I went out dancin', tell 'em I went to war

Tell 'em whatever you want to all the same

It’s said a man dies first when he’s parted wi' his soul

And second when folk forget to speak his name

Derry born and barely raised

I’d hardly bear to see the place again

'Til in merrie bloody England

I found myself a brother to the end

It’s proper that you’re grievin'

Yer poorer for me leavin'

The best and fairest any given day

Let Matty, Marco, Luke and John

Bless the slab I’m lyin' on

Kiss me arse and send me on me way

Tell 'em I went out dancin', tell 'em I went to war

Tell 'em whatever you want to all the same

It’s said a man dies first when he’s parted wi' his soul

And second when folk forget to speak his name

A half a dozen monkeys

The Devil sent to snap me o’er his knee

I slapped their filthy tongues back in their skulls

And did it laughin' wickedly

Smash the right and fuck the left

I’ll curse 'em with my dyin' breath

As bent as each t’other I would say

The only drum I march to is me Irish bloody heart

Kickin' out against its brittle cage

Tell 'em I went out dancin', tell 'em I went to war

Tell 'em whatever you want to all the same

It’s said a man dies first when he’s parted wi' his soul

And second when folk forget to speak his name

Tell 'em I went down swingin', tell 'em I went to war

Tell 'em whatever you want to all the same

It’s said a man dies first when he’s parted wi' his soul

And second when folk forget to speak his name

To speak my name

To speak my name

To speak my name

To speak my name