The Best Years Of Our Lives Lyrics - Celtic Thunder

I WAS BORN IN LONDON ENGLAND IN NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE 

MY FATHER WAS A GERMAN, WITH AN IRISH GAL HIS BRIDE 

HE WORKED AS A WAITER AND SHE WORKED AS HIS WIFE 

AND THEY STRUGGLED HARD TO MAKE THOSE TIMES THE BEST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES. 

BUT WITH WORLD WORLD ONE THE GERMAN HUN LOCKED FORCES WITH THE CROWN. 

AND THE BRITISH LOCKED THEIR GERMANS UP WHEREVER THEY WERE FOUND. 

THEY TOOK MY GERMAN FATHER FROM HIS CHILDREN AND HIS WIFE, 

AND THEY LOCKED HIM UP ON THE ISLE OF MAN FOR THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES 

AND MY MAMA TOOK HER EIGHT KIDS BACK TO HER HOME IN THE COUNTY CLAIRE 

YOU'RE NOT BRITISH SON NOR GERMAN NOW YOUR IRISH, SHE DECLARED. 

SHE TAUGHT US TO LOVE IRELAND AND TO HATE THE BLACKENED TIN MINES, 

AND THE EIGHT OF US TURNED PADDY IN THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. 

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I LANDED IN AMERICA IN NINETEEN TWENTY THREE 

AND I GOT A JOB AND I WORKED REAL HARD TO UNITE MY FAMILY 

AND ONE BE ONE I BROUGHT THEM HERE TO SHARE IN AMERICA'S PRIZE 

OF A BRAND NEW DAY THE USA WERE THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. 

THEN I MET A GIRL FROM GALWAY AND SHE QUICKLY WON MY HEART 

WE WERE MARRIED IN THE BRONX IN JUNE AND TOGETHER MADE A START 

WE SURVIVIED THE GREAT DEPRESSION THOUGH WE OFTEN WE LIVED IN DIVES 

AND WE HAD THREE SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE BEST YEARS OF LIVES. 

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BUT MY LOVE IS GONE NOW AND I AM OLD AND THE CHILDREN ALL GROWN UP 

AND NO MATTER WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY THE DRINK I CANNOT GIVE UP 

FOR A MAN'S ALONE WHEN THERE IS NO MORE HOME WITH HIS KIDS AN DARLING WIFE 

AND I KNOW THEY ARE ALL BEHIND ME NOW, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIFE.