Oh, me is MacNamara, I'm the leader of the band Although we're few in numbers, we're the in the land We play at and weddings and at every fancy ball And when we play the funerals, we play the March from
Oh, the drums go bang and the cymbals And the they blaze away pumps the old bassoon While I the do play
And Henessee Tennessee the flute And the is somethin' grand A credit to old Is Band
Right now we are rehearsin' for a very swell The annual celebration, all the gentry be there General Grant to Ireland came, he took me by the hand Says, "He ain't never saw the likes of Band"
Oh, the drums go bang and the clang And the horns blaze away pumps the old bassoon While I the do play
And Henessee Tennessee tootles the And the music is grand A to old Ireland Is MacNamara's
Oh, my name is Uncle Julius and from Sweden I did To with MacNamara's Band and beat the big bass drum And when I march along the street, the ladies I'm grand They shout, "There's Uncle Julius playin' an Irish band"
Oh, I wear a bunch of shamrocks and a uniform of And I'm the funniest lookin' that you have ever seen There is O'Brians, O'Ryans, O'Sheehans and They from Ireland But, by yimminy, I'm the only Swede in MacNamara's
Oh, the go bang and the cymbals clang And the they blaze away McCarthy pumps the old While I the pipes do
And Henessee tootles the flute And the is somethin' grand A credit to old Is Band
MacNamara