"It isn't easy being green especially when you're Irish"

Vocals and Keyboards  
Richard Rhys O'Brien

Lyrics

Drop the O'  

Story of my family long before I was born               
Came across the Irish Sea in eighteen forty four          
Started again as best they could hardly room to breathe         
If they hadn’t made it there wouldn’t be a me                                             
Drop the O apostrophe, you don’t want enquiries           
Isn’t easy being green especially when you’re Irish
 
A tale of great achievement, hardship and trial              
Days of high mortality for a mother and her child        
Industrial revolution poverty and wealth                        
Great inequality in money and in health                          
Drop the O apostrophe, you don’t want enquiries
Isn’t easy being green especially when you’re Irish
 
Everybody’s history comes from those who went before       
Let us make the future and create a little more            
Let us tell the story like the sagas of the past                                
Starring role or walk-on part, we’re all in the changing cast
Drop the O apostrophe, you don’t want enquiries
Isn’t easy being green especially when you’re Irish
 
So welcome to the story of those who set sail                                              
From the land across the water let them tell their tale                              
Life’s a rollercoaster, goes up as well as down                                
The story of the Irish who came to London Town                        
Drop the O apostrophe, you don’t want enquiries
Isn’t easy being green especially when you’re Irish

©Richard Rhys O’Brien 2015