It's three a.m. and we're down at Bridie's   the music's grand and the craic it flows   with Wally Putt and Gard O'Brien   the best of times we've ever known      So raise your glasses to the heavens   the O'Riley's and the Nevens'   it's just as well a chara   the tables are nailed down   Paidi Murphy's on his second   with McDuff and the Reverend   we're having ourselves a rare auld time      now Thom O'Neil is going crazy   he's doing a jig now with the wife   she doesn't know it's Friday's money   he's spent in Bridie's Thursday night      now ashtrays fly and chairs fall over   there'll be hell to pay by daylight   but we don't care t'is surely liftin'   to see the glint in old Thom's eye      So raise your glasses to the heavens   the O'Riley's and the Nevens'   it's just as well a chara   the tables are nailed down   Paidi Murphy's on his fourth   with O'Connor and McCourt   we're having ourselves a rare auld time      all's quiet now in Danny's corner   a drop of dew was his taste   we miss the man since he's met the coroner   his humour never went to waste      the story goes he walks by moonshine   the auld ones hear him every night   they say he sings down by the ditches   raisin' hell until the break of light      So raise your glasses to the heavens   the O'Riley's and the Nevens'   it's just as well a chara   the tables are nailed down   Paidi Murphy's on his eighth   with Jimmy Joyce and Yeats   we're having ourselves a rare auld time      sweet Mary Clare has roses bloomin'   the lads are giving her the eye   but she just wants to get back with Patrick   after telling him goodbye      Now Gerry Byrne has called for ciunas   his Kate has fallen in a trance   a voice so pure t'would give ya shivers   but soon she'll break into a dance      So raise your glasses to the heavens   the O'Riley's and the Nevens'   it's just as well a chara   the tables are nailed down   Paidi Murphy's on his ninth   Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde   we're having ourselves a rare auld time      Good ol' Murphy's on his tenth   Jaysus Behan's really bent   it's just as well a chara    the tables are nailed down   Sean O'Casey, Kavanaugh   how the hell is Ballina?   we're having ourselves a rare old time      Now it's Murphy's on his back   Behan's having one on Jack   it's just as well a chara    the tables are nailed down   now it's Behan's on the floor   Murphy's calling out for more   we're having ourselves a rare auld   we're having uorselves a rare auld   we're having ourselves a rare auld time