{"id":1469,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/forty-shades-of-blue"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"forty-shades-of-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/forty-shades-of-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty Shades Of Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Oh it’s midnight on the Bowery and your feet are soakin’ wet
\nAnd you’ve drank your last brass farthin’
\nYou’d sell your soul for a cigarette
\nAnd the sounds from CBGBs are comfortin’ to you
\nThen you think of the green fields of Ireland
\nAnd you feel 40 shades of blue<\/p>\n

Ah you’re back on the drink since September
\nAnd your head feels like a sieve
\nAnd you know that you’re goin’ from bad to worse
\nBut you just don’t give a shit
\nAnd the hymns from the Sally Army sound heavenly and true
\nThen you think of your friends and your family
\nAnd you feel 40 shades of blue<\/p>\n

Ah you’ve got a great future behind you
\nBut you’re goin’ nowhere fast
\nJust up and down the Bowery from Canal Street to old St. Marks
\nAnd you wonder what she’s up to now
\nDid she really find somebody new
\nAh how the hell could she just walk out like that
\nOn your 40 shades of blue<\/p>\n

And you wonder how it came to this
\nWas it always in the cards
\n‘Cause workin’ is for idiots
\nAnd you loved the smell of bars
\nAnd the letters that you sent back home
\nWere full of all the things you’d done
\nBut they don’t say you’re down there on Bleecker Street
\nWith your hand out on the bum<\/p>\n

Now the dawn’s comin’ up on the Bowery
\nAnd you’re heartsick and soakin’ wet
\nWith your tongue hangin’ out for some Irish Rose
\nYou’d sell your soul for a cigarette
\n“And someday I’m gonna give up this drinkin’
\nBut then maybe someday I’ll win the lottery too
\nThen I’ll go back home to old Wexford Town
\nAnd paint her 40 shades off blue”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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