{"id":1313,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/the-bandon-car"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"the-bandon-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/the-bandon-car\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BANDON CAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

Come all you lads and lassies and listen to my sad tale
\nAnd I’ll tell to you what happened to me one night down in Kinsale
\nIt being the summer season I found myself a job
\nSinging ballads in a bar to make a couple of bob
\nI’d been doing a bit of a stint, me boys down in the Folk House bar
\nLittle did I know in town that night was the Bandon car<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nOh, they’re baggin’ ’em in Berehaven, Kilbrittain and Kinsale
\nThe Fivemile and Belgooly, the story’s much the same
\nNo matter where you come from, no matter where you are
\nIf you’re a man that likes his porter, beware of the Bandon Car!<\/p>\n

And when the gig was over and me gear all packed away
\nSays I, I’ll have one for the road, then leave without delay
\nBut alas! That was the one I fear that caused me my downfall
\nBut how was I to know me fate? Sure I didn’t have a clue at all
\nWhen I had donned me cap and coat and drank down my last jar
\nThe barman’s final comment was, “Watch out for the Bandon Car.”<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

I was just about to leave for home when much to my dismay
\nA Garda car with flashing lights came up and barred me way
\nSays he, have you drink taken? Says I, a small amount
\nSays he, would that be five or six? Says I, I never count
\nHe made me blow into the bag, saying, tonight you’ve gone too far!
\nAnd to the station I was taken in the back of the Bandon Car<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

Now the doctor he was sent for, looking tired and distressed
\nThrough bleary eyes he asked me, would I mind a urine test
\nSays I, I like things private when I answer nature’s call
\nBut that request was soon shot down I had to bare it all
\nOh! what a terrible indignation to take a thing so far
\nAnd I wished that they could go to hell, along with th’ oul’ Bandon Car<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

Now I’ve been law-abidin’ since the day that I was born
\nBut this terrible legislation! I view it now with scorn
\nThere’s trickies and there’s hooflers who breaks laws every day
\nBut they can’t be caught easily and they get clean away
\nI’ve tried every means I know to avoid the social scar
\nBut there is no way you’ll get fair play from the boys in the Bandon Car<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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