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The Luck of the IrishJohn Lennon

Released: June 12, 1972

Songwriter: John Lennon Yoko Ono

Producer: Phil Spector John Lennon

[Verse 1: John Lennon]
If you had the luck of the Irish
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you was English instead

[Verse 2: John Lennon]
A thousand years of torture and hunger
Drove the people away from their land
A land full of beauty and wonder
Was raped by the British brigands (Goddamn, Goddamn)

[Verse 3: Yoko Ono]
If you could keep voices like flowers
There'd be shamrock all over the world
If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn

[Verse 4: John Lennon]
In the 'Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land
Of the pain and the death and the glory
And the poets of auld Éireland

[Verse 5: Yoko Ono]
If we could make chains with the morning dew
The world would be like Galway Bay
Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns
The world would be one big Blarney stone

[Verse 6: John Lennon]
Why the hell are the English there anyway
As they kill with God on their side
Blame it all on the kids the IRA
As the bastards commit genocide (Aye, Genocide)

[Verse 1: Lennon & Ono]
If you had the luck of the Irish
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you was English instead

[Outro: Lennon & Ono]
Yes you'd wish you was English instead

John Lennon

As the founding member of The Beatles, John Winston Lennon (1940-1980) is one of the most recognizable cultural icons of the 20th Century. He is also the other half of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership, alongside fellow Beatle, Paul McCartney.

As a solo artist and through his relationship and collaboration with avant-garde artist Yoko Ono, he became just as recognizable for his political activism.

Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980, outside of his New York apartment, The Dakota. Since then, his music and message remain timeless.

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