Our Jack Lyrics

Ex-Altar Boy, Pioneer and ex-head of year

Such a good young lad, with a decent career

Jack went to college, got a first class degree

Now he finds it so hard just to make two ends meet

Squeezed in the middle with nowhere to go

He lives in a chalet out the back on his own

And his girlfriend is lovely, she comes from Mayo

She's the love of his life, and they both want a home

We say we are happy, we're glad we've our health

You know there once was a time when we could increase our wealth

We like downsizing but it's the divil that we know

We're caught in the middle with nowhere to go

And Our Jack is pretending he is happy now

With all that he has, it's all that we have

And we'll pretend that we don't want more

We know it's a lie, but we've got to try

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We are decent people, we look after our own

We love it in Ballsgrove it's all we have known

But there's holes in the boat now she's fairly well rocked

We say it's ok when we know that it's not

We look at the Chalet and we hope for the best

Maybe Jack will get lucky and the banks will say yes

There's no intervention from the people in the Dail

We're caught in the middle and they've failed us all

And Our Jack is pretending he is happy now

With all that he has, it's all that we have

And we'll pretend that we don't want more

We know it's a lie, but we've got to try