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Spirits Seldom Sober

from Down & Out In The City Of Saints by The Peelers

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Your honor he is guilty, but we don’t call it sin
He sealed his fate at six years when he let Luke Kelly in
Before he knew of punk rock he could sing The Parting Glass
Schoolboy in a headlock with a tape deck checkered past
And if this is a confession, it’s more shite than you and I
Well he came into this world a flame, snuffed out when he died
He’d done his time in pubs and bars and roamed the valley o’er
He drowned the ghost of yesterdays in spirits seldom sober

In bliss or torment judge him now
But it’s not what you are thinking
It was an angel that put it in his hands
But a devil made him drink it

There was Ryan from old Belfast, and a piper from Dundee
Jack Bauer bought him whiskey in the snug on Clarence Street
In that shithole down on Crescent, above Bill Hurley’s bar
Where the ceiling was collapsing and they stole his bloody car
Well he slept up on a rooftop in Knoxville, Tennessee
Where Jesus struck a Guinness pose and lost the fucking key
Drank wine in old Virginia with admirals by the beach
Til someone cracked their ankle stumbling shitfaced down the street

He knew most of his heroes, and he loved them all to death
Even those who are departed, names whispered in a breath
He burned out like a candle on an altar full of tears
If the man was a contender he’d a made it out of here

May you be there half an hour, before he knows you’re gone
May he walk with saints and poets, and his nights be rich and long
May the ledger of his life, be a joy to look upon
With a million grinning faces at his wake to sing this song
Fearnley’s concertina will be the soundtrack of his life
While he rolls into the grave a mess who never dodged a fight
His memory should live a thousand years and maybe more
Fixed in myth and legend like the cap his father wore
And he won’t forget Missus Donnelly our lovely Irish rose
Her advice on handling drunkards? “You just break their fucking nose”
Thank all his friends and family for love and their support
For putting up with absences and showing up in court
And when he is afflicted, noggin, lung, or liver
Won’t you take him down to the port and roll him in the river
He had a hat when he came in, and lost it in the brawl
And he’ll have a hat when he goes out, or he won’t go out at all

It’s a long, long, way from your moral high ground
To a whiskey fueled delinquent
Well he punched the clock as a union man
But took a pirate boat to sink it

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from Down & Out In The City Of Saints, released March 12, 2021

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Now based in Montreal, The Peelers were formed in 1999 in North Glengarry. They immersed themselves in a hotbed of Gaelic culture that smashed head on into a love of whiskey, poetry, footy, debauchery, ska and punk. They don’t just bend the rules of tradition with their blend of aggro & trad Irish - these long ball merchants tear it to pieces. ... more

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