Mcnamara's Band-Gracie Fields/Unknown/D.R

[ti:Mcnamara's Band] [ar:Gracie Fields] [al:The Very Best of Gracie Fields] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mcnamara's Band - Gracie Fields/Unknown/D.R [00:10.10]My name is McNamara [00:11.44]I'm the Leader of the Band [00:13.54]And though we're small in number [00:15.03]We're the best in all the land [00:17.05]Oh I am the Conductor [00:19.73]And we often have to play [00:21.62]With all the best musicianers [00:23.25]You hear about today [00:25.08]When the drums go bang [00:26.36]And the cymbals clang [00:27.36]The horns will blaze away [00:29.04]MacCarthy puffs the ould bassoon [00:30.80]While Doyle the pipes will play; [00:32.43]Oh Hennessy Tennessy tootles the flute [00:35.44]My word 'tis something grand [00:37.16]And a credit to Ould Ireland [00:38.69]Boys is McNamara's Band [00:40.82] [00:59.76]Whenever an election's on [01:01.40]We play on either side [01:03.08]The way we play our fine ould airs [01:05.20]Fills Irish hearts with pride [01:06.53]Oh if poor Tom Moore was living now [01:09.64]He'd make yez understand [01:11.31]That none could do him justice [01:13.13]Like ould McNamara's Band [01:15.07]When the drums go bang [01:16.33]And the cymbals clang [01:17.25]The horns will blaze away [01:19.16]MacCarthy puffs the ould bassoon [01:20.84]While Doyle the pipes will play; [01:22.32]Oh Hennessy Tennessy tootles the flute [01:25.38]My word 'tis something grand [01:27.27]A credit to Ould Ireland [01:28.85]Boys is McNamara's Band [01:30.74] [01:49.50]We play at wakes and weddings [01:51.52]And at every county ball [01:53.28]And at any great man's funeral [01:54.80]We play the "Dead March in Saul " [01:56.94]When the Prince of Wales to Ireland came [01:59.93]He shook me by the hand [02:01.39]And said he'd never heard the like of "McNamara's Band " [02:04.98]When the drums go bang [02:06.31]And the cymbals clang [02:07.19]And the horns will blaze away [02:09.06]MacCarthy puffs the ould bassoon [02:10.74]While Doyle the pipes will play; [02:12.45]Oh Hennessy Tennessy tootles the flute [02:15.45]My word 'tis something grand [02:17.25]And a credit to Ould Ireland [02:18.95]Boys is McNamara's Band [02:20.77] [02:35.63]Oh i didn't enjoy doing that didn't you [02:37.66]Come on let's have another chorus [02:39.15]When the drums go bang [02:40.85]And the cymbals clang [02:41.84]The horns will blaze away [02:43.70]MacCarthy puffs the ould bassoon [02:45.30]While Doyle the pipes will play; [02:46.84]Oh Hennessy Tennessy tootles the flute [02:50.11]My word 'tis something grand [02:52.09]And a credit to Ould Ireland [02:53.66]Boys is McNamara's Band