John Lennon & Yoko Ono - The Luck Of The Irish ☘️ 🇮🇪 (official music video HD)

If you had the luck of the Irish,
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you was English instead

A thousand years of torture and hunger
Drove the people away from their land
A land full of beauty and wonder
Was raped by the British brigands
Goddamned, goddamned

If you could keep voices like flowers
There's be shamrock all over the world
If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
Then the world would be as high as the mountain of Morn

In the 'pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land
Of the pain, the death and the glory
And the poets of auld Eireland

If we could make chains with the morning dew
The world would be like Galway Bay
If you walk over rainbows like leprechauns
The world would be one big Blarney Stone

Why the hell are the English there anyway?
As they kill with God on their side
Blame it all on the kids and the I.R.A.
As the bastards commit genocide
Aye, aye, genocide

If you had the luck of the Irish,
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you was English instead

Written and performed by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Filmed on Portapak video by John Reilly at John & Yoko's apartment
105 Bank Street, New York, USA on 12 November 1971.

John: Liverpool is where the Irish came when they ran out of potatoes, and it’s where black people were left or worked as slaves. We were a great amount of Irish descent and blacks and Chinamen, all sorts. It was a very poor city, and tough. But people have a sense of humour because they are in so much pain, so they are always cracking jokes. They are very witty. And we talk through our noses. I suppose it’s adenoids.

I'm a quarter-Irish and long, long before the trouble started, I told Yoko that's where we're going to retire, and I took her to Ireland. We went around Ireland a bit and we stayed in Ireland and we had a sort of second honeymoon there. So I was completely involved in Ireland.


Yoko: That was not artsy-craftsy music. It was music alongside the idea of 'The Message is the Music'. We went back to the original concept of a folk song. Like a newspaper, the function was to present the message accurately and quickly. And in that sense, it was funky music, just as a newspaper layout could he called funky. Also it is supposed to stimulate people among the audience and to make them think, 'Oh, it's so simple, even I could do it.' It should not alienate the audience with its professionalism but communicate to the audience the fact that they, the audience, can be just as creative as the performers on the stage, and encourage them to make their own music with the performers rather than to just sit back and applaud.

The Record Plant studio recording is available on the album 'Sometime in New York City'.
https://youtu.be/p4cPoaXRRrg

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