{"id":1804,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/pool-song"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"pool-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/pool-song\/","title":{"rendered":"POOL SONG"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

May the Lord upon high who rules the sky, look down on our pubs and bars
\nAnd the women and men all seated within, neglecting there pints and there jars
\nThe crack it is bad the atmosphere bad, very man has a face like mule
\nFor all he can do is to grab an oul cue and start playing that game called pool<\/p>\n

Now when I was a boy it was always me joy to go to the pub each night
\nThere were arguments, scraps and killings perhaps and everyone though he was right
\nThere was badgers and dogs and men from the bogs and young fellas acting the tool
\nBut now there’s no crack for every man jack has his arse in the air playing pool<\/p>\n

To the local ale house after milking the cows every customer made his way
\nAnd there he would dwell and drink till he fell while the fiddles and pipes they did play
\nThe jigs and the reels, the rattling of heels, polkas and slides were the rule
\nBut now there’s no chance for a tune or a dance, for everyone’s playing the old pool<\/p>\n

Now pool you will find is a game designed for foolish, illiterate louts
\nYou put in four bob and pull an old knob and a big shower of balls they come out
\nThey’re placed on the table and then if your able to knock them all in to a hole
\nMore money goes in, you start over again and you lose every bob of your dole<\/p>\n

Now in the Irish Free State all the people are beat from watching and playing this game
\nIn their necks they have cricks which no doctor can fix & their backs and their shoulders are maimed
\nTheir arses protrude in a manner most lewd from being hoisted aloft in the air
\nTheir eye balls are sore and dripping with gore and they in a manner most quare<\/p>\n

So if you meet a young man whose face it is wane and his eyes have a vacant stare
\nHis jawbone is slack and his head is thrown back and he can’t tell a cob from a mare
\nHis nostrils dilated, his brow corrugated, his manners like those of a fool
\nOn your shirt you can bet that you have just met, a man’s that’s gone plain mad for pool<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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