Macnamara's Band

McNamara's Band - Irish dance hall fiddlers

Oh me name is macnamara i'm the leader of the band

Although we're few in numbers we're the finest in the land

We play at wakes and weddings and at every fancy ball

And when we play the funerals we play the march from saul

Oh the drums go bang and the cymbals clang and the horns they blaze away

Mccarthy pumps the old bassoon while i the pipes do play

And henessee tennessee tootles the flute and the music is something grand

A credit to old ireland is macnamara's band

Right now we are rehearsing for a very swell affair

The annual celebration all the gentry will be there

When general grant to ireland came he took me by the hand

Says he i never saw the likes of macnamara's band

Oh the drums go bang and the cymbals clang and the horns they blaze away

Mccarthy pumps the old bassoon while i the pipes do play

And henessee tennessee tootles the flute and the music is something grand

A credit to old ireland is macnamara's band