Whisky in a jar thin lizzy6/19/2023 Until the South comes back again, beneath the Starry-Banner Īnd if John Bull should interfere, he'd suffer for it truly įor, soon the Irish Volunteers would give him Ballyhooly. Stream songs including Whisky In the Jar (Full Length Version), Sarah (Version 2) and more. Och, sure, we never will give in, in any sort of manner, Listen to Whiskey In the Jar by Thin Lizzy on Apple Music. Och hone! the slaughter that we made, bedad, it was delighting!įor, the Irish lads in action are the devil's boys for fighting. The Rebel blaggards soon gave way: they fell as thick as paynuts. I jumped up, fired off my pistols and I shot him with both barrels. We soon got into battle: we made a charge of bayonets: And I never knew the danger for about six or maybe seven, in walked Captain Farrell. Whoo! says I, the Irish Volunteers the devil a one afraid is,īecause we've got the sugar bowl, McClellan, to lead us. I bid good-bye to Biddy dear, and all the darling children Ora, once in regimentals, my mind was bewildher. Till I 'listed for a Soger-boy wid Corcoran's brigade, sir. I used to cry out: Soap fat! bekase that was my trade, sir, It was the record company that decided to make 'Whiskey in the Jar' the A-side. The band recorded 'Black Boys On The Corner' as the A-side and put the old traditional Irish Song 'Whiskey In The Jar' on the B-side because they didn't have anything else. Not long ago, I landed from the bogs of sweet Killarney Although a massive first hit for Thin Lizzy, this was actually meant to be the B-side. I am a modern hero: my name is Paddy Kearney The song appeared in wording very close to its modern version in a ballad called "The Sporting Hero," or "Whiskey in the Bar," in a mid-1850s broadsheet.ĭuring the American Civil War the famed Fighting 69th, composed of almost all Irish, adopted the song as their own anthem but changed the lyrics and called the song “We'll Fight for Uncle Sam.”
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