A Night On Earth

C F C F C F [Verse 1] C F C F I met her up on Leeson Street of a Tuesday afternoon C F C F In Summer's fallen colours, sulking back to school C F C F I asked her would she linger, She asked me would i stay C F C F Would i keep a girl in company, drinking in the day? [Chorus] C F Drinking, drinking C F Drinking... not thinking C F Drinking, drinking C F We'll go drinking in the day [Verse 2] C F C F She was almost a woman, she was going on sixteen C F C F She asked me to go walking, In Saint Stephen's Green C F C F She said I love the sunshine, and to hear the children play. C F C F But I won't be distracted when I'm drinking in the day. [Verse 3] C F C F With her flashing eyes and milk white lies she looked like a song C F C F Like the ghost of a woman that first made me go wrong C F C F She said I'll have a drink with you I said you'll have to pay C F C F For a comprehensive education, Drinking in the day [Chorus] C F Drinking, drinking C F Drinking... not thinking C F Drinking, drinking C F We'll go drinking in the day [Verse 4] C F C F If her mother could have seen us on that bright November day C F C F Botticelli and his angel perambulating Ormand Quay C F C F A drunken blessed virgin, me rhetorious and gay C F C F Bestowing ancient wisdom as to what made me this way [Verse 5] C F C F Deny your friends and family, To serve you must betray C F C F Break and enter heaven, Steal but never save C F C F Squander every penny, Empty every heart C F C F Travel every darkened road, Never finish what you start C F C F Always talk to strangers, Make love with whom you may C F C F For God will find good company, for your drinking in the day [Chorus] C F Drinking, drinking C F Drinking... not thinking C F Drinking, drinking C F We'll go drinking in the day [Verse 6] C F C F So spend your youth on poetry, and spend your cash at play C F C F Each line upon my face is for a girl who went away C F C F A kiss, a song, are fleeting things and fame will always stray C F C F So I'll tell the truth, the best spent youth, is the one you give away [Chorus] C F Drinking, drinking C F Drinking... not thinking C F Drinking, drinking C F We'll go drinking in the day C F Drinking, drinking C F Drinking... not thinking C F Drinking, drinking C F We'll go drinking in the day C F Drinking, drinking C F Drinking... not thinking C F Drinking, drinking C F We'll go drinking in the day C F Drinking, drinking C F Drinking... not thinking C F Drinking, drinking C F We'll go drinking in the day C F Drinking, drinking C F Drinking... not thinking C F Drinking, drinking C F We'll go drinking in the day C F Drinking, drinking C F Drinking... not thinking C F Drinking, drinking C F We'll go drinking in the day