Irish traditional song lyrics — collected by Beer Belly Band.
Well I’ve been a Sunday driver now for many’s a happy year
And I’ve never had my Morris-Miner in route to second gear
I can drive at 15 miles an hour on motor way or track
With my wife up front beside me and her mother in the back
There was me and my daddy and my daddy’s mammy
And her sister’s granny and four of her chums and Auntie Jean
In a crowd of fifty trippers you can always pick me out
For my “Don’t blame me, I voted Tories” sticker on the boot
With my bunch of heather stickin’ in my radiator grill
And my stick on transfer bullet holes and license for to kill
There was me and my daddy and my daddy’s mammy
And her sister’s granny and four of her chums and Auntie Peg
I’ve a hundred plastic pennants for to tell you where I’ve been
And my steering wheel is clad in simulated leopard skin
Up front from the rear view mirror hangs a plastic skeleton
And in the back a dog with eyes that flicker off and on
There was me and my daddy and my daddy’s mammy
And her sister’s granny and four of her chums and Auntie Mae
Now if you wonder how these weekly trips I can afford
It’s because I’m on a stipend from the Scottish Tourist Board
You’re supposed to enjoy the scenery the finest of it’s kind
And that is why you have convoy following behind
There was me and my daddy and my daddy’s mammy
And her sister’s granny and four of her chums and Auntie Rose
Always drive as though my foot was resting on the brake
And I weave about the road just so you canna over take
I can get you so frustrated that you’ll finish up in tears
And the sound of blaring motor horns is music to my ears
There was me and my daddy and my daddy’s mammy
And her sister’s granny and four of her chums and Auntie Gertrude
There was me and my daddy and my daddy’s mammy
And her sister’s granny and four of her chums—You’re driving too fast!