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I met her up on Leeson Street of a Tuesday afternoon
In Summer’s fallen colours, sulking back to school
I asked her would she linger, I asked her would she stay
Would she keep a man in company, drinking in the day?
Drinking, Drinking
Drinking… not thinking
Drinking, Drinking
We’ll go drinking in the day
She was almost a woman, she was going on sixteen
She asked me to go walking, In Saint Stephen’s Green
She said I love the sunshine, and to hear the children play
But I won’t be distracted when I’m drinking in the day
With her flashing eyes and milk white lies
She looked like a song
Like the ghost of a woman
That first made me go wrong
She said I’ll have a drink with you
I said you’ll have to pay
For a comprehensive education
Drinking in the day
Drinking, Drinking
Drinking and not thinking
Drinking, Drinking
We’ll go drinking in the day
If her mother could have seen us on that bright September day
Botticelli and his angel perambulating Ormand Quay
A drunken blessed virgin, me rhetorious and gay
Bestowing ancient wisdom as to what made me this way
Deny your friends and family, to serve you must betray
Break and enter heaven, steal but never save
Squander every penny, empty every heart
Travel every darkened road, never finish what you start
Always talk to strangers, make love with whom you may
For God will find good company for your drinking in the day
Drinking, drinking
Drinking and not thinking
Drinking, drinking
We’ll go drinking in the day
So spend your youth on poetry, and spend your cash at play
Each line upon my face is for a girl who went away
A kiss, a song, are fleeting things and fame will always stray
So I’ll tell the truth, the best spent youth, is the one you give away
Drinking, drinking
Drinking… not thinking
Drinking, drinking
We’ll go drinking in the day
Drinking, drinking
Drinking… not thinking
Drinking, drinking
We’ll go drinking in the day
Drinking, drinking
Drinking… not thinking
Drinking, drinking
We’ll go drinking in the day
Drinking, drinking
Drinking… not thinking
Drinking, drinking
We’ll go drinking in the day
Drinking, drinking
Drinking… not thinking
Drinking, drinking
We’ll go drinking in the day
Drinking, drinking
Drinking… not thinking
Drinking…