Macklemore, Ryan Lewis - Irish Celebration lyrics

I'm an Irishman leather weathered Irish skin
Beard orange as the sunset or the flag
In the night sky we fly it in
Pride for the life we fight to live
History, I write with it
Spit it with the dialect
And this is a celebration of course
The green, white, orange
And when they pulled up on that shore
First generation born
Toast to those that made it on
A boat to New York
And when the English came the colonizer came
They filled up bottles of gasoline
Turned 'em into balls of flame
And hurled 'em to protect what's ours
Don't touch these lucky charms
Whole bunch of Irish screaming
"Fuck the London Guard"
I'm kidding not dissin' London
It's bloody raw
But go against the Irish and get a bloody jaw
Preaching nonviolence but reminds
Of the scars
Unify us, put a pint up everybody sing a song

We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya so raise a pint for the
People that aren't with us
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya

We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya so raise a pint for the
People that aren't with us
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya

From New England to New Brunswick
Galway to Dublin
A rebellious nation of freckled face hustlers
Heart, blue collared workers and family
My heritage, proud to be a Haggerty
Now with whiskey in our veins
Claiming we're the bravest men
I drank Old Crow
But pretended it was Jameson
Dad sipped Guinness, I sipped Old English
'Til he sat me down at 16 and said "boy
This is what a beer is"
I put down the drink
Couldn't drink like a gentleman
That doesn't mean I can't make a drinking
Song for the rest of 'em
Challenge us in football, yeah we might lose
But don't put us next to a bar stool
We take the history, script it in song
Light the torch then you pass it on
That's right I said
Lineage through the rhythm we script
It from the palm
And we give til' Ireland is on bottoms Up

We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya so raise a pint for the
People that aren't with us
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya

We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya so raise a pint for the
People that aren't with us
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya

Tonight, we're celebrating life
Those are all my Irish
Goons in the background put 'em up!
Because you know all the way from Ireland
To the States from Dublin to Boston
Grafton to Seattle my whole Haggerty family
This one's for you let's go
And all my people say (hey)
All over the world even if you're not Irish
Put your glasses up
Ryan Lewis and all my people say
That's Ireland it's beautiful isn't it?
Irish celebration and all my people say
Versus

We put our glass to the sky and lift up
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya so raise a pint for the
People that aren't with us
And live tonight cause you can't
Take it with ya