Mary's Pub

She put it right between my lips And I bit down with the light And I asked her had she anything She handed me a light And with that light I took a drag And I watched the world go by You were mine and I was yours And our limit was the sky And we watched time go by Well I told her ask me anything She asked me how to cry And when I think of you I know Forever I will be Happy as the fool because together we are free Well we cantered on by the statue Where once Phil Lynott stood Met by his scoley being hoisted outside Mary's Pub He'd never seen the like before Rare seemed so daft And the cobbles were lit up by the enchantment of your laugh And we watched time go by Well I told her ask me anything She asked me how to cry And when I think of you I know forever I will be Happy as the fool because together we are free Well we watched the buskers play a tune in lower Grafton Street And I tried to grab your finger but I wasn't so discreet You smiled and braced my hand and pulled me into some old bar And we drank a drop and we twirled and talked about our lives so far And we watched time go by Well I told her ask me anything She asked me how to cry And when I think of you I know forever I will be Happy as the fool because together we are free Well he swallowed down his last drop And began to feel the heat And he gestured to the bar man that it was his time to leave With a cap upon his head he thought of home in Skibbereen Said we were the finest couple that his eyes had ever seen And we watched time go by Well I told her ask me anything She asked me how to cry And when I think of you I know forever I will be Happy as the fool because together we are free And as she boards her plane back to her home in Amsterdam She'll study for the year before turning to her land She said she loves a man and he is stationed far away With him her precious love she says forever it will stay And we watched time go by Well I told her ask me anything She asked me how to cry And when I think of you I know forever I will be Happy as the fool because together we are free