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[Verse 1]
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I met her up on Leeson Street of a Tuesday afternoon
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In Summer's fallen colours, sulking back to school
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I asked her would she linger, She asked me would i stay
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Would i keep a girl in company, drinking in the day?

[Chorus]
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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day

[Verse 2]
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She was almost a woman, she was going on sixteen
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She asked me to go walking, In Saint Stephen's Green
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She said I love the sunshine, and to hear the children play.
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But I won't be distracted when I'm drinking in the day.

[Verse 3]
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With her flashing eyes and milk white lies she looked like a song
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Like the ghost of a woman that first made me go wrong
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She said I'll have a drink with you I said you'll have to pay
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For a comprehensive education, Drinking in the day

[Chorus]
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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day

[Verse 4]
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If her mother could have seen us on that bright November day
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Botticelli and his angel perambulating Ormand Quay
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A drunken blessed virgin, me rhetorious and gay
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Bestowing ancient wisdom as to what made me this way

[Verse 5]
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Deny your friends and family, To serve you must betray
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Break and enter heaven, Steal but never save
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Squander every penny, Empty every heart
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Travel every darkened road, Never finish what you start
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Always talk to strangers, Make love with whom you may
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For God will find good company, for your drinking in the day

[Chorus]
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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day

[Verse 6]
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So spend your youth on poetry, and spend your cash at play
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Each line upon my face is for a girl who went away
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A kiss, a song, are fleeting things and fame will always stray
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So I'll tell the truth, the best spent youth, is the one you give away

[Chorus]
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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day

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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day

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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day

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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day

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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day

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Drinking, drinking
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Drinking... not thinking
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Drinking, drinking
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We'll go drinking in the day