It's three a.m. and we're down at Bridie's 
The music's grand 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 heaves 
The O'Reilly's and the Nevin's 
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 Thoms' eye 

So raise your glasses to the heaves 
The O'Reilly's and the Nevin's 
It's just as well a chara 
The tables are nailed down 
Paidi Murphy's on his fourth 
With O'Conner 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 met the coroner 
His humor 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 heaves 
The O'Reilly's and the Nevin's 
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 heaves 
The O'Reilly's and the Nevin's 
It's just as well a chara 
The tables are nailed down 
Paidi Murphy's on his ninth 
Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde 
We're havin' 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 auld 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 callin' out for more 
We're havin' ourselves a rare auld 
We're havin' ourselves a rare auld 
We're havin' ourselves a rare auld time