[Verse]
Oh, I am a city gent, I live in a tenement
In the heart of one of Ireland's biggest slums, (You should see it!)
But they're going to improve, so we've been asked to move,
By those mansion loving corporation bums.

[Chorus]
Oh, they're tearing down the building next to us,
And they're sending us to green belts, trees and flowers
But we do not want to go, and we daily tell them so,
While they're tearing down the building next to us.

[Verse]
Well, our family the lot, have been living in this spot, (If we should!)
For more than fifty years without a break, (Ah, ha, ha.)
So, when they ordered us to go, we just told them point blank "No!"
You can go and jump in Ireland's biggest lake.

[Chorus]
Oh, they're tearing down the building next to us,
And they're sending us to green belts, trees and flowers
But we do not want to go, and we daily tell them so,
While they're tearing down the building next to us.

[Verse]
They say we'll realise our dream in some lovely housing scheme,
For the air out there is always fresh and sweet, (A-a-achoo!)
But we're happy where we are, think we're better off by far, (Better off!)
With a pub in every corner of the street. (Street!)

[Chorus]
Oh, they're tearing down the building next to us,
And they're sending us to green belts, trees and flowers
But we do not want to go, and we daily tell them so,
While they're tearing down the building next to us.

[Verse]
Now they've ordered us to quit, so we just had to flit
It took six removal vans to shift the load,
Well, we moved just yesterday but it's not to far away
It's the building facing ours across the road.

[Chorus]
Oh, they're tearing down the building next to us,
And they're sending us to green belts, trees and flowers
But we do not want to go, and we daily tell them so,
While they're tearing down the building, (Oh, yes!)
They're tearing down the building, (Yes!)
They're tearing down the building next to us.