[Intro] [Warm acoustic guitar, steady bodhrán, fiddle melody and pub ambience] [Verse 1] There’s a fire in the corner And the rain against the pane Old McGregor’s telling stories We have heard a hundred times again There’s a fiddle by the doorway There are boots upon the floor And someone starts a chorus So we all sing one more [Pre-Chorus] We came in from the weather We’ll leave when morning calls But there’s room around the table For one and all [Chorus] Raise your glass, raise it high To the good days passing by To the friends who came And the ones who stayed And the stories growing wild Raise your glass, sing it loud There’s no stranger in this crowd If you’ve got a song Then come along Raise your glass with us tonight [Post-Chorus] Hey! Raise it up Hey! Fill it once again [Verse 2] There’s a farmer from the valley And a sailor from the bay A girl who says she’s leaving But she says that every Saturday Someone’s dancing on a table Someone’s lost his other shoe And Jimmy swears by midnight He can play the whistle too [Pre-Chorus] No one cares about tomorrow No one’s counting what it costs For a night among good people Is never truly lost [Chorus] Raise your glass, raise it high To the good days passing by To the friends who came And the ones who stayed And the stories growing wild Raise your glass, sing it loud There’s no stranger in this crowd If you’ve got a song Then come along Raise your glass with us tonight [Instrumental Break] [Melodic fiddle and tin whistle over steady acoustic guitar, bodhrán and handclaps] [Bridge] Here’s to roads we haven’t taken Here’s to chances still to come Here’s to every foolish promise Made beneath the setting sun Here’s to those who sit beside us And the ones we dearly miss For life is made of evenings Exactly just like this [Breakdown] [Acoustic guitar and group vocals] So raise it up For the nights we won’t forget Raise it up We’re not going home just yet [Build] [Drums, fiddle and crowd vocals return] One more song One more round Let the rafters hear the sound [Final Chorus] Raise your glass, raise it high To the good days passing by To the friends who came And the ones who stayed And the stories growing wild Raise your glass, sing it loud There’s no stranger in this crowd If you’ve got a song Then come along Raise your glass with us tonight Raise your glass for old and young For every road and every song For the nights like this That we’ll always miss Long after they are gone Raise your glass, sing it loud There’s no stranger in this crowd Shoulder to shoulder As we grow older Raise your glass with us tonight [Outro] [Fiddle, acoustic guitar and pub group vocals] Hey! Raise it high Hey! To you and I Raise your glass with us tonight
