Top 10 Irish songs for Saint Patrick's Day

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IrishCentral has come up the top 10 Irish songs you should be singing this St. Patrick’s Day!

10. “There’s No One As Irish As Barack Obama”

A song created by an Co. Limerick based group, The Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys, when it was discovered that Obama has Irish roots in Moneygall, Co. Offaly. There song was a huge hit on YouTube and continues to be sung around the word.

Sing along now:

“From Kerry and cork to old Donegal
Let’s hear it for Barack from old Moneygall
From the lakes if Killarney to old Connemara
There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama
O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama…..”

9. “The Irish Rover”

A traditional Irish song about a magnificent, though improbable, sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end… One that is only sung after many a beer is consumed and Irish people get nostalgic and some end up in tears.

Sing along now:

“On the fourth of July eighteen hundred and six,
We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork,
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks,
For the grand city hall in New York,
'Twas a wonderful craft, she was rigged fore-and-aft,
And oh, how the wild winds drove her.
She'd got several blasts, she'd twenty-seven masts,
And we called her the Irish Rover…”

8. "A Nation Once Again"

This is a song, written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845). Davis was a founder of an Irish movement whose aim was the independence of Ireland.
The song is a prime example of the "Irish rebel music" sub-genre (though it does not celebrate fallen Irish freedom fighters by name, or cast aspersions on the British government as so many rebel songs do)

Sing along now:

“When boyhood's fire was in my blood,
I read of ancient freemen,
For Greece and Rome who bravely stood,
Three hundred men and three men;
And then I prayed I yet might see,
Our fetters rent in twain,
And Ireland, long a province, be
A Nation once again…!”

7. “The Boys of the Old Brigade”

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