The Warrior's Code lyrics

Come single guy and gal unto me pay attention
Don't ever fall in love
It's the devil's own invention
For once he fell in love with a maiden so bewitching
Miss Henrietta Bell down in Captain Kelly's kitchen

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With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie

At the age of seventeen I apprenticed to a grocer
Not far from Stephen's Green

.... Calling all Americans of above-average intelligence...
College graduates, apply today...

Come decimate dictatorships and overthrow regimes
In exotic far-off places the vacation of your dreams
You'll assemble puppet governments and play the hand of God
We're an equal-opportunity crime fighting squad

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Citizen C.I.A.
Citizen C.I.A.

I'm a sailor peg
And I lost my leg
Climbing up the topsails
I lost my leg

I'm shipping up to boston
(whoa oh oh)
x3
I'm shipping off
To find my wooden leg

I'm a sailor peg
And I lost my leg
I climbed up the topsails
I lost my leg

I'm shipping up to boston
(whoa oh oh)
x3
I'm shipping off
To fing my wooden leg

Hello there my dearest love
Today I write to you about our sons
The boys start school today
They're the spitting image of you in every way

Hey son it's Dad
I hope this letter finds you well out of harm's way
We saw the news today it frightened your Mom
Now all she does is pray

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If I lead will you follow?
Will you follow if I lead?

Hey Melissa it's me don't be afraid

Alright!

Yeah, me and my girl we're acting up again all right
She ain't much of a looker, she can handle her Paraldehyde
You were up all night at the Captain's Table
drinking Tango & gin by the old piano
Playing cards and smoking cigars 'til the sun came up
Or was it going down for the night?

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Take another ride on the sunshine highway
Take another ride try to turn it around

Maureen's out on the street again
Didn't get the job 'cause she missed her appointment
She don't know if the kids are fed
They've got holes in their shoes
and the cold's coming quick now
The power's off the bill's ain't paid
gotta jump the box for the neighbor's apartment
Space heaters and welfare checks
are as good as it gets in this land of hard lessons

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Tessie is the Royal Rooters' rally cry
Tessie is the tune they always sung
Tessie echoed April through October nights
After serenading Stahl, Dinneen, and Young

Tessie is a maiden with a sparkling eye
Tessie is a maiden with a love
She doesn't know the meaning of her sight
She's got a comment full of love

And sometimes when the game is on the line
Tessie always carried them away

A hungry feeling, came o'er me stealing
And the mice they were squealing in my prison cell

To begin the morning, the warden bawling
Get up out of bed boy, and clean out your cell

And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal

On a fine spring evening, the lag lay dreaming
And the seagulls were squeeling high above the wall

He came from nothing
He tried them all
You gotta live low before you see them fall
Always a loser he lost his shine
They had no idea what kept the beast alive

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Cause Franky is gonna be alright
Yeah, Franky is gonna be alright
They said he was broken never coming back
But Franky is gonna be alright

He swore to show them outlast them all

oh how do you do, young willy mcbride
do you mind if i sit here down by your graveside
and rest for a while in the warm summer sun
i've been walking all day, and im nearly done
and i see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
when you joined the great fallen in 1916
well i hope you died quick
and i hope you died clean
oh willy mcbride, was is it slow and obscene

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The greats come alive, the wall is one fire
We've been to this place before.
Yeah we danced through the night as the place burned bright.
And the pages passed out on the floor.

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Whats so new about what youre saying?
Its a new generation with the same sad song.
Whats so new about what youre saying?
Just another generation with the same sad song.

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You're the fighter you've got the fire
The spirit of a warrior, the champion's heart
You fight for your life because the fighter never quits
You make the most of the hand you're dealt
Because the quitter never wins
No!

You were born to box in a city that's seen their share
Mello, Ryan, Carney, among them your photo proudly hangs there
Above the bar in the Gaelic Club

Well it's all gone to hell now, the wimps have gangs.
Pop-punk tough guys, neck tattoos.
If you guys are hard, I'd rather be soft.
Man, I gotta find me some seriously sensitive dudes.

Hey! Ho! Hey!

You gotta shake hands with your feelings
in the wicked sensitive crew.

In Pittsburgh they called us closed minded,
but we know that's simply not true.
Yeah, we're touchy, feely, sensitive guys,

We are the ones who will never be broken
We are the ones who survive
This is the sound that brings us together
You are the one by our side

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And through it all, the spirit's alive
And through it all, your spirit's alive

You are the memory that lives on forever
The shadow that stands by our side
This is the sound that keeps us together
We are the ones who survive

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