{"id":1661,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/the-liar"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"the-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/the-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LIAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I was born about ten thousand years ago
\nIn Bellmullet in the County of Mayo
\nIt was me that chased the vermin, while St. Patrick preached the sermon
\nAnd I’ll whoop the man that says it isn’t so<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nSinging rightful too-ra-laddie too-ra-lee
\nThere is no one who can tell a lie like me
\nYou can search until you tire, you won’t find a bigger liar
\nI’ve been lying since the dawn of history<\/p>\n

I saw Eve go pickin’ apples off a tree
\nShe came over and she offered one to me
\nI turned and said, “Dear madam, go try your luck with Adam
\nI’m going home to have some fish and chips and tea.”<\/p>\n

I saw Delilah cuttin’ Samson’s hair
\nShe snipped away until his head was bare
\nWhen he couldn’t run away, she married him next day
\nAnd they opened a barber shop in Clare<\/p>\n

With King Billy at the Boyne I heard them call
\nOn his followers to follow till they fall
\nThen he said, “We’ll win quite easy, and we’ll canonize, young Paisley.”
\nThen he up and sang a verse of Derry’s Walls<\/p>\n

In was back in sixty-two in Donoghue’s
\nI was singing there with Luke and Ronnie Drew
\nLuke sez, ‘Nick your singing’s grand, so let’s form a ballad band
\nAnd a great big hairy beard I went and grew<\/p>\n

Oh I’d like ride your sister’s motor bike I’d like ride your sister’s motor bike
\nI’d like ride your sister, I’d like ride your sister I’d like ride your sister’s motor bike<\/p>\n

Would you like to ride on Johnson’s Motor Car
\nwould you like to ride on Johnson’s Motor Car
\nWould you like to ride on Johnson, would you like to ride on Johnson
\nWould you like to ride on Johnson’s Motor Car<\/p>\n

It was during World War II I met them all
\nThere was Roosevelt and Churchill and De Gaulle
\nThen one day I nearly fainted, I was having my house painted
\nThere was Hitler hanging paper in the hall<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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