G                 C
Now there are those who like to think
         G                D
We'd be best without the drink
    G            Em             C  D
No beer, ale, or frothy pints of porter
     G         C
So let's hypothesize
     G                    D
How it would change your lives
    G             C            D   G
If everyone were only drinkin' water

[Pre-Chorus]
       D
There'd be no public houses
   C                D
No bars to take your spouses
   G             C           D
No party kegs or cans to celebrate
       C         D
No deliriums, or visions
    C            D
Regrettable decisions
       C           D              G
No excuses to be coming home too late

[Chorus]
              C                            D
So brothers, sisters, it's time to take a stand
         Em    Am           D          G
You can pry my beer from my cold dead hand!
          Em            D                G
Raise 'em up, raise 'em up and drink 'em down
               Em             D                G
Yeah raise 'em up, raise 'em up and drink 'em down

Em   D   G

[Verse 2]
               G                  C
There'd be no swingin' from the rafters
     G              D
No bleary morning after
      G                  Em          C   D
We wouldn't challenge strangers to a fight
               G                  C
There'd be no singing 'round the fire
         G             D
With a drunken boozy choir
      G                C               D    G
We'd all be home and tucked up for the night

[Pre-Chorus]
              D
We'd have no way to wake the dead
             C              D
We couldn't wet the baby's head
     G             C              D
Or toast the bachelor or bride-to-be
             C               D
We'd have no cheery pint to sup
             C              D
Watching Ireland lose the cup
         C          D             G
We'd barely need to go and have a pee

[Chorus]
              C                            D
So brothers, sisters, it's time to take a stand
         Em    Am           D          G
You can pry my beer from my cold dead hand!
          Em            D                G
Raise 'em up, raise 'em up and drink 'em down (drink 'em down!)
               Em             D                G
Yeah raise 'em up, raise 'em up and drink 'em down (drink 'em down!)

[Instrumental]

Em   D   G

C   G   D   G   Em   C   D   G   C

G   D   G   C   D   G

[Bridge]
            G               C
For every barmaid, every waiter
        G          D
Both sides of the equator
         G               Em            C   D
Would be out of work and livin' on the dole
      G               C
The wealth of every nation
   G              D
Depends upon libations
  G              C                   D   G
Beer it seems is worth its weight in gold

[Pre-Chorus]
              D
Well we've assessed the pros and cons
            C                   D
Tallied up both the rights and wrongs
        G           C                  D
The hellfire into which we could be hurled
              C              D
Now get that pint into your face
         C               D
You can save the human race
          C               D              G
You're drinking for the future of the world!

[Chorus]
              C                            D
So brothers, sisters, it's time to take a stand
         Em    Am           D          G
You can pry my beer from my cold dead hand!
          Em            D                G
Raise 'em up, raise 'em up and drink 'em down (drink 'em down!)
               Em             D                G
Yeah raise 'em up, raise 'em up and drink 'em down (drink 'em down!)