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RETURN TO IRISH SONGS<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Wasn't That A Party - The Irish Rovers\r\n<\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - -<\/span> <\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 1] - - - - <\/span>Someone took a [D] grapefruit, wore it like a hat\r\n<\/span><\/span>I saw someone under my kitchen table, [D7] t<\/span>alking to my old tom cat ...\r\n<\/span>They were talking about [G] hockey.  <\/span><\/span>The cat was talking [D] back\r\n<\/span><\/span>Long about then [A] everything went black.....  <\/span><\/span>Wasn't that a [D] party\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n[Bridge] - - - - <\/span>I'm [G] sure it's just my memory, p<\/span><\/span>laying tricks on [D] me\r\n<\/span><\/span>But I [E] think I saw my buddy - <\/span><\/span>cutting down my neighbour's [A] tree\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }  - - - - <\/span>Could've been the [D] whiskey, might have been the gin \r\n<\/span><\/span>Could've been the three or four six-packs, I don't know \r\n<\/span>But [D7] look at the mess I'm in \r\n<\/span><\/span>My head is like a [G] football. <\/span><\/span>I think I'm going to [D] die \r\n<\/span><\/span>Tell me, [A] me oh, me oh my. <\/span><\/span>Wasn't that a [D] party <\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n \r\n[Bridge] - - - - <\/span>[A] Billy, Joe and [G] Tommy - <\/span><\/span>Well, they went a bit too [D] far\r\n<\/span><\/span>They were [E] sitting in the back yard, \r\nblowing the siren <\/span><\/span>of a police [A] car\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n[Verse 2] - - - - <\/span>[A] So you see, Your [D] Honour, it was all in fun\r\n<\/span><\/span>The little bitty race we had last night\r\n<\/span>Was just to [D7] see if the cops could run\r\n<\/span>Well, they run us in to [G] see you, i<\/span><\/span>n an alcoholic [D] haze\r\n<\/span><\/span>I can [A] sure use those thirty days t<\/span><\/span>o recover from the [D] party\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }  - - - -  <\/span><\/span>\r\nTellin' me, [A] me oh, me oh my. <\/span><\/span>Wasn't that a [D] party <\/span><\/span>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
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RETURN TO IRISH SONGS Wasn’t That A Party – The Irish Rovers { CHORUS } – – – – [Verse 1] – – – – Someone took a [D] grapefruit, wore it like a hat I saw someone under my kitchen table, [D7] talking to my old tom cat … … CLICK TO VIEW SONGWasn’t that a Party<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,120,95,133,126,265,64,116,117,131,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-chords","category-perflive","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-irish-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30272,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions\/30272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}