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    Drunken Lullabies

    by Flogging Molly
    Intro main banjo melody, then fiddle over:



    Must it take a life for hateful eyes
    To glisten once again
    Five hundred years like Gelignite
    Have blown us all to hell (to hell!)

    What savior rests while on his cross we die
    For- gotten freedom burns
    Has the Shepherd led his lambs astray
    to the bigot and the gun

    Chorus
    Must it take a life for hateful eyes
    To glisten once again
    Cause we find our- selves in the same old mess
    Singin' drunken lulla- bies

    Repeat Intro

    I watch and stare as Rosin's eyes
    Turn a darker shade of red
    And the bullet with this sniper lie
    In their bloody gutless cell

    Must we starve on crumbs from long ago
    Through these bars of man made steel
    Is it a great or little thing we fought
    Knelt the conscience blessed to kill

    Chorus
    Bridge
    Ah, but maybe it's the way we're taught
    Or maybe it's the way we fought
    But a smile never grins without tears to begin
    For each kiss is a cry we all lost
    Though nothing left to gain
    But for the banshee that stole the grave
    Cause we find our- selves in the same old mess
    Singin' drunken lulla- bies (right!)

    Solo over Intro x3

    I sit in and dwell on faces past
    Like memories seem to fade
    No color left but black and white
    And soon will all turn grey

    But may these shadows rise to walk again
    With lessons truly learnt
    When the blossom flowers in each our hearts
    Shall beat a new found flame (the flame!)

    Chorus

    Cause we find our- selves in the same old mess
    Singin' drunken lulla- bies
    Singin' drunken lulla- bies