McNamara's Band

Mcnamara's Band - Gracie Fields

My name is McNamara

I'm the Leader of the Band

And though we're small in number

We're the best in all the land

Oh I am the Conductor

And we often have to play

With all the best musicianers

You hear about today

When the drums go bang

And the cymbals clang

The horns will blaze away

MacCarthy puffs the ould bassoon

While Doyle the pipes will play;

Oh Hennessy Tennessy tootles the flute

My word 'tis something grand

And a credit to Ould Ireland

Boys is McNamara's Band

Whenever an election's on

We play on either side

The way we play our fine ould airs

Fills Irish hearts with pride

Oh if poor Tom Moore was living now

He'd make yez understand

That none could do him justice

Like ould McNamara's Band

When the drums go bang

And the cymbals clang

The horns will blaze away

MacCarthy puffs the ould bassoon

While Doyle the pipes will play;

Oh Hennessy Tennessy tootles the flute

My word 'tis something grand

A credit to Ould Ireland

Boys is McNamara's Band

We play at wakes and weddings

And at every county ball

And at any great man's funeral

We play the "Dead March in Saul "

When the Prince of Wales to Ireland came

He shook me by the hand

And said he'd never heard the like of "McNamara's Band "

When the drums go bang

And the cymbals clang

And the horns will blaze away

MacCarthy puffs the ould bassoon

While Doyle the pipes will play;

Oh Hennessy Tennessy tootles the flute

My word 'tis something grand

And a credit to Ould Ireland

Boys is McNamara's Band

Oh i didn't enjoy doing that didn't you

Come on let's have another chorus

When the drums go bang

And the cymbals clang

The horns will blaze away

MacCarthy puffs the ould bassoon

While Doyle the pipes will play;

Oh Hennessy Tennessy tootles the flute

My word 'tis something grand

And a credit to Ould Ireland

Boys is McNamara's Band