A Long Time Ago

We can drink a keg of bother and still, be one to mourn We'd sing and play all night until they throw us out the door And we'd greet the rising sun as it set the sky aglow While rolling with the lassies there a long time ago A long time ago A long time ago For we're the boys who made the noise a long time ago We can fight and not be beaten The likes you've never seen Our cry was no surrender And God help who came between We'd rise and stand together When stormy winds did blow 'Twas all for one and one for all a long time ago A long time ago A long time ago For we're the boys who made the noise a long time ago We've sung old Ireland's glory The laughter and the tears The immigrants and the heroes, and the shameful famine years Winsome girls and soldiers who fought the common foe We sang the songs of Ireland boys a long time ago A long time ago A long time ago For we're the boys who made the noise a long time ago So, here's to dear old Ireland and here's to rambling around And here's to friends and foes alike who wonder where we're bound We're older but no wiser, but this we'll have yes-no We're still the boys who made the noise a long time ago! A long time ago A long time ago For we're the boys who made the noise a long time ago A long time ago A long time ago For we're the boys who made the noise a long time ago, woo!