"Mary's Pub" lyrics
She put it right between my lips
And I bit down with the light
And I asked her had she anything
She handed me a light
And with that light I took a drag
And I watched the world go by
You were mine and I was yours
And our limit was the sky
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know
Forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Well we cantered on by the statue
Where once Phil Lynott stood
Met by his [?] being hoisted outside Mary's Pub
He'd never seen the like before
Rare seemed so daft
And the cobbles were lit up by the enchantment of your laugh
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Well we watched the buskers play a tune in lower Grafton Street
And I tried to grab your finger but I wasn't so discreet
You smiled and braced my hand and pulled me into some old bar
And we drank a drop and we twirled and talked about our lives so far
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Well he swallowed down his last drop
And began to feel the heat
And he gestured to the bar man that it was his time to leave
With a cap upon his head he thought of home in Skibbereen
Said we were the finest couple that his eyes had ever seen
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
And as she boards her plane back to her home in Amsterdam
She'll study for the year, before turning to her land
She said she loves a man and he is stationed far away
With him her precious love, she says, forever it will stay
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
And I bit down with the light
And I asked her had she anything
She handed me a light
And with that light I took a drag
And I watched the world go by
You were mine and I was yours
And our limit was the sky
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know
Forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Well we cantered on by the statue
Where once Phil Lynott stood
Met by his [?] being hoisted outside Mary's Pub
He'd never seen the like before
Rare seemed so daft
And the cobbles were lit up by the enchantment of your laugh
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Well we watched the buskers play a tune in lower Grafton Street
And I tried to grab your finger but I wasn't so discreet
You smiled and braced my hand and pulled me into some old bar
And we drank a drop and we twirled and talked about our lives so far
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Well he swallowed down his last drop
And began to feel the heat
And he gestured to the bar man that it was his time to leave
With a cap upon his head he thought of home in Skibbereen
Said we were the finest couple that his eyes had ever seen
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
And as she boards her plane back to her home in Amsterdam
She'll study for the year, before turning to her land
She said she loves a man and he is stationed far away
With him her precious love, she says, forever it will stay
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Writer(s): Oisin McCaffrey, Robert Cunningham, Ross McNerney
