If you had the luck of the Irish
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish

And you'd wish you was English instead!

A thousand years of torture and hunger

Drove the lucky people have to leave their homeland

A land full of beauty and wonder

Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn! Goddamn!

If you had the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish that you was English instead!
Go away, go away.