Every Dog Has Its Day
Flogging Molly
Letra

Standard tuning

[Verse 1]
(slow, 3/4 time)                                     
Well, I’ve drunk to drown    on every ocean I’ve been
                                           
Lake Tanganyika,  where the crocodiles swim
(fast 4/4)                                 
Halifax, Nova Scotia   to Van Diemen’s land
                                                 
Well I drank with the Sultan   down the Suez Canal

[Chorus]
                         
Cause every dog has it’s day
                                   
Like every woman, she gets her own way
                                   
And if there’s a ship that sails tonight
                                                                   
I’ll captain that, too...   just to be there with you

[Verse 2]
                                                       
Well there was old Jerry Rooney,   who was mad as a mule
                                             
Spillblood Maloney   had a head like one, too
                                                 
That night on the bridge    with my shovel in hand
                                                                
Well he threatened to kill me    I’m sure he picked the wrong man

[Chorus]
                         
Cause every dog has it’s day
                                   
Like every woman, she gets her own way
                                   
And if there’s a ship that sails tonight
                                                                   
I’ll captain that, too...   just to be there with you

[Verse 3]
                                                               
Well there was mutiny in Lagos    aboard the mean ship Skondi
                                                        
Ten or twelve days in prison    till the bastards set me free
    
McCloskey, you’re free

[Instrumental]
                     
                  

[Chorus]
                         
Cause every dog has it’s day
                                   
Like every woman, she gets her own way
                                   
And if there’s a ship that sails tonight
                                                                   
I’ll captain that, too...   just to be there with you

[Verse 4]
(slow 3/4)                                
Now I love the sea,   and she wants me back
                                                   
So I leave this ol’ harbor   with the wind at me back
(very slow)                                         
Goodbye mother Theresa   I hope the kids settle down
                                                       
I must head for the Chinas    Pray to God I don’t drown

[Chorus] (x3)
                         
Cause every dog has it’s day
                                   
Like every woman, she gets her own way
                                   
And if there’s a ship that sails tonight
                                                                   
I’ll captain that, too...   just to be there with you

[Ending]