DDGA
[Verse]
DGA
Here's to the Ronnie, the voice we adore
DGA
Like coals from a coal bucket scraping the floor
DGA
Sing out his praises in music and malt
DGD
And if you're not Irish, that isn't your fault
DGADGA
[Verse]
DGA
Raise up our voices like dogs in a pack
DGA
Grateful for honest men we never lack
DGA
We got 'em by twenties, we got 'em by ones
DGD
Them and their daughters and all of their sons
DDGADDGA
[Chorus]
GD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
GD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
GF#mG
Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes we do
DAD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you
[Verse]
DGA
And what's it to any man whether or no'
DGA
Whether I'm easy or whether I'm true
DGA
As I lifted her petticoat easy and slow
DGD
And I tied up me sleeve for to buckle her shoe
DGADGA
[Verse]
DGA
Get up and go at it, five until five
DGA
When the whistle says budge it we come back alive
DGA
He'll sing to the heavens, he's stormy as hell
DGD
And wherever he goes, we'll be wishing him well
DDGADDGA
[Chorus]
GD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
GD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
GF#mG
Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes we do
DAD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you
A
The dawn and the dust, the wise, the unjust
Em
Kids in gambling games
A
The unheard, the unseen, the unwashed and unclean
Em
Where the streets all have names
A
Baggot Street, Leeson Street, right on to Stephen's Green
Em
With lovers and loners who can hear all intoners
A
The goths and the ravers, immigrants and traders
Em
Sing out Ronnie Drew
[Verse]
DGA
A eye for a eye or a hand for a hand
DGA
Trust in the music and strike up the band
DGA
The more that we sing the less that we fight
DGDDGA
Time and again this is proved to be right
DGADGA
[Verse]
DGA
Build you a statue on St. Stephen's Green
DGA
No fairer monument ere to be seen
DGA
The statue of Ronnie Drew holding the hand
DGD
Of a girl with her hair in a black velvet band
DDGADDGA
[Chorus]
GD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
GD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
GF#mG
Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes we do
DAD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you
[Outro]
DAD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you,
DAD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you
N.C.
And what's it to any man whether or no'
N.C.
Whether I'm easy or whether I'm true
N.C.
As I lifted her petticoat easy and slow
N.C.
And I rolled up me sleeve for to buckle her shoe