My great Grandpa was a king    A monarch stout and noble   He surveyed this land so green   And he said she is fair and humble      As far as the eye can see    From Carrauntooil to Giant's Causeway    Was ours until they went    And made a criminal of me      Many a Celtic head had rolled    And rolled upon the hillside   And they bathed their horses hooves    In Hibernian blood and their hide      In exile they did flee   And set up a church and home there   Till the landlord and the bailiff    Made it criminality      Oh, and on the road they came to run    Run until the runnin's done   Run far away from fettered chain   The land was ours to barter      We succumb from sweat and strain    And look they're right behind again   If they catch me boys   I know they'll make a criminal of me      A criminal of me, a criminal of me   Wandering forever hungering eternally   A criminal of me, a criminal of me   Run, run, before they make a criminal of me      Across the sea they sailed   To a land both bright and noble.   For they'd watched their neighbors starve,    And the bloodline as it fumbled.      As they reached the safer side   Ole Papa said to Jimmy   To try and live a life so they'd not make    A criminal of he      Go be alert said Da,    Do not perish for the gentry   Though poor but proud was he   Whenever they called discretely      Well he'd smash their faces in    And in gaol he died poorly   But he said don't let them try    And make a criminal of ye      Oh now my boss he steps so gay   So gaily up the street   While I dull the pain in pubs    And still can't afford to eat      He is dashing, he is fancy    And he'll never want you see   Evan as the factory shuts his shoes    Reflect the criminal in me      Violent and drunk now in the street    With nothing to sustain me   I'm gonna die here in this hole   The kids I can't take care of with me      But it must be taught to let the blame    And hatred out of their heads   For anger and danger make you just another    Pathetic, drunken, violent paddy dead