[Chorus]
Hey Paddy, hey Paddy, where have you been Paddy?
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?
Hey Paddy, guess what we're taking you in Paddy,
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?

[Verse]
From Rotherhithe in London down to Bethnal by the Green,
Ye Paddy walks all over me, the pick and shovel squad,
And Friday nights he heads out to drinking with the lads,
Well the craic was only mighty with the navvies from the sod.

[Chorus]
Hey Paddy, hey Paddy, where have you been Paddy?
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?
Hey Paddy, guess what we're taking you in Paddy,
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?

[Verse]
There's a hooley on for Jimmy he's the got ye on the site,
And they lifted him for sleeping rough, gave him forty days and nights,
And now he's out and crouched round got ye fire for heat,
Drinking billy after billy can of charcoal tea.

When Jimmy sang the rebel songs Paddy sang them too,
Till the Rasta man from Trinidad, came whispering the news,
"A warning my good man you'd like to take from me,
They're lifting Paddy boyos from across the Irish Sea."

[Chorus]
Hey Paddy, hey Paddy, where have you been Paddy?
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?
Hey Paddy, guess what we're taking you in Paddy,
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?

[Verse]
We're sitting in a café down the Kings Cross Road,
And drinking cappuccinos on a belly full of beer,
His head was only lifting, he had twenty minutes left,
For another cup of coffee and another cigarette.

It's a lousy Monday morning when Paddy reads the rag,
They were looking for a photo fit, he's the one they nagged,
They lifted him that morning took a photo for the file,
They kicked him in the, (ugh!) just to make him smile.

[Chorus]
Hey Paddy, hey Paddy, where have you been Paddy?
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?
Hey Paddy, guess what we're taking you in Paddy,
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?

[Chorus]
Hey Paddy, hey Paddy, where have you been Paddy?
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?
Hey Paddy, hey Paddy, where have you been Paddy?
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?

[Chorus]
Hey Paddy, hey Paddy, where have you been Paddy?
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?
Hey Paddy, hey Paddy, where have you been Paddy?
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?

[Chorus]
Hey Paddy, hey Paddy, where have you been Paddy?
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?
Hey Paddy, guess what we're taking you in Paddy,
Hey Paddy, where have you been all day?
Come on and join me, hay.