The Marijuana Song – Kevin O’Grady

The Marijuana Song by Kevin O’Grady

While out shooting for a documentary on rural Irish pub life, Chris Fiftal met Kevin O’Grady at The Spaniard Pub in Kinsale, Ireland.  After being lucky enough to witness his performance in person, he posted this video on YouTube, which instantly became a hit.

The lyrics posted here are from the original version of the The Marijuana Song and are just slightly different than those in the video.

The Marijuana Song

Down in Australia, we had to change the rules….

we all kept getting busted for smoking drugs in school…..

We couldn’t have us young polititions….

Growing up with drug convictions….

So cool, we just change the rules…..

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CHORUS:….

Smoking that Marijuana it wont harm ya

Safer than pills, cheaper than booze….

Get you like a bent banana…..

Smoking that Marijuana it wont harm ya

Safer than pills, cheaper than booze….

Buy it from you local farmer..cy

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Down in Tasmania, that’s where I come from,….

Galaxos growing poppies everywhere and we’re all on the opium…..

And up there in Sydney, thats a gay community,….

They having a real gay time, cause they’re all on the extasy…..

And all around the world they finally got the class,….

google earth their back garden, they’re all growing grass…..

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CHORUS….

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Now over here in Europe, that’s a bloody joke,….

They’re telling us all what to do and they’re all snorting coke…..

Its legal in Holland, but not in Switzerland,….

When I was smoking in Deutschland, they didn’t give a damn…..

Over there in England they have the union jack

a bunch of bloody know it all,s, they’re all smoking crack.

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CHORUS….

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Over there in Ireland, the Catholic Church has got the cash,

no one really gives a toss their to busy smoking hash.

Down there in South Africa, you know what really annoys them,….

They don’t care about black and white, cause they’re all on the Derbin poison…..

up in the mountains of afghanistan, when will peace begin,

they,ve been killing each others for centuries to control the heroin

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CHORUS….

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and down there in Mexico, its called the city of sin.

their all going crazy cause their all on the Mescaline .

and on the vast plains of CANADA, the mounted police are massive.

they always claim to get their man cause they on the lysergic acid.

And what about the Americans, they turned into mugs,….

They lost the war on freedom and they lost the war on drugs…..

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CHORUS…

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So spread the word about the supurb herb

Go outside, plant a few seeds, grow a few weeds!.

get rid of prohibition …

And lets get high!….

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CHORUS….

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The Marijuana Song – Kevin O’Grady

You can check out Kevin O’Grady (The Tasmaniac) on his myspace and YouTube channels.

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