RSSBreak into Irish song
close-up of a St. Patrick’s day hat and shamrock
The Irish are known for many things — potatoes, centuries of suffering, Bono — but arguably nothing is more synonymous with Ireland than its Celtic music and St. Patrick’s Day.
Whether singing about famines, sailors lost at sea, factory oppressiveness, or that fair lassie who drank all the whiskey, the Irish pack a punch into their music laden with fiddles, flutes and bodhrans.
You could spend weeks listening to years of Irish history told through song, but we don’t have years. We have one day, Sunday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, when everyone is honorarily Irish.
To prepare for the holiday and the Irish music that certainly will flow like green beer, we offer this crash course in Irish music in one over-the-top, ridiculous Mad Libs-style song.
Wee Willy Whiskey
On a Irish morn, in Dublintown. (adjective) (adjective)
Wee Willy Whiskey with a frown.
(verb past tense) (noun)
“Those British oppressors are and cheats,”
(adjective) (noun)
sang Wee Willy Whiskey while the streets.
(verb ending in –ing)
“Twill be a day when Irish folk
(adjective) (adjective)
are from our pubs with a poke.”
(verb past tense) (adjective) (body part)
E’er long the potatoes are in the earth.
(adjective) Farmer O’ ‘s land has all its worth.
(surname) (verb past tense)
‘Our fairy- land is and forlorn.
(verb past tense) (emotion)
The hull of our is and torn.
(mode of transportation) (adjective)
Raise your and your pint of .
(instrument) (beverage)
Join Wee Willy Whiskey in an Irishman .
(dance move)
Our isle has suffered for .
(gemstone) (period of time)
‘Tis time to and .
(verb present tense) (adverb) (verb present tense).
Young Molly is with hair like .
(adjective) (adjective) (natural disaster)
She the laundry with
(verb present tense) (adjective) (facial expression)
Wee Willy Whiskey her true.
(verb present tense)
He’d write her a if he wasn’t so .
(poem type) (color)
He’s to Boston to streets paved with .
(verb ending in –ing) (element)
His fate’s in the of the White Star’s .
(body part) (ship part)
Young Molly candles and
(verb present tense) (verb present tense) (adverb) at Mass, a Irish beats in this lass.
(adjective) (vital organ) (adjective)
Molly the Blarney Stone till Wee Willy Whiskey
(verb present tense) (pronoun) returns.
Her for the fair, lad for burns.
(emotion) (adjective) (period of time)
CHORUS:
Raise your and your pint of .
(instrument) (beverage)
Join Wee Willy Whiskey in an Irishman .
(dance move)
Our isle has suffered for .
(gemstone) (period of time)
‘Tis time now to and (verb) (adverb) (verb)
‘Twas nary a ‘fore Molly took ill.
(period of time)
She and and asked for a .
(medical symptom) (medical symptom) (remedy)
Alas, Molly lay too long.
(adjective) (verb ending in -ing)
The graveyard’s her now, and we this song.
(noun) (verb)
When Wee Willy Whiskey got of her fate,
(noun)
He through South Boston his mate.
(verb ending in -ed) (verb ending in-ing)
Our lad reached for and Joyce.
(emotion) (beverage)
Tears ; he with a voice
(verb ending in -ed) (adverb) (verb ending in -ed)
That lamented his Molly, his home and his .
(noun)
Lay Wee Willy Whiskey in .
(direction) (adverb) (locale)
CHORUS:
Raise your and your pint of .
(instrument) (beverage)
Join Wee Willy Whiskey in an Irishman .
(dance move)
Our isle has suffered for .
(gemstone) (period of time)
‘Tis time to and .
(verb present tense) (adverb) (verb present tense).
Raise your and your pint of .
(instrument) (beverage)
Join Wee Willy Whiskey in an Irishman .
(dance move)
Our isle has suffered for .
(gemstone) (period of time)
‘Tis time now to and . (verb present tense) (adverb) (verb present tense).
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