Thin Lizzy
Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. The two founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of thirteen studio albums. Thin Lizzy are best known for their songs “Whiskey in the Jar”, “Jailbreak” and “The Boys Are Back in Town”, all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. After Lynott’s death in 1986, various incarnations of the band have emerged over the years based around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in 2009. Thin Lizzy’s de facto leader, Lynott was composer or co-composer of almost all of the band’s songs. He was one of the few black musicians to achieve commercial success in hard rock, and the first black Irishman to do so.
Whiskey in the jar
As I was going over
the Cork and Kerry mountains
I saw Captain Farrell
and his money he was counting
I first produced my pistol
and then produced my rapier
I said: Stand or deliver
or the devil he may take you!
Mush a ring dum a doo dum a da,
Whack for my daddy’o,
whack for my daddy’o,
there’s whisky in the jar o.
I took all of his money
and it was a pretty penny
I took all of his money
and I brought it home to Molly
She swore that she’d love me,
never would she leave me
For the devil take that woman,
for you know she treat me easy
Mush a ring dum a doo dum a da,
Whack for my daddy’o,
whack for my daddy’o,
there’s whisky in the jar o.
Now some men like the fishing
and some men like the fowling
And some men like to hear
the cannonball a roaring
Me-like sleeping,
specially in my Molly’s chamber
But here I am in prison,
here I am with a ball and chain yeah.
Mush a ring dum a doo dum a da,
Whack for my daddy’o,
whack for my daddy’o,
there’s whisky in the jar o.
Like a drunk one with you
And I loved, I loved
Thin Lizzy – Whiskey in the jar 1973
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