[1st verse:] It takes a German to make Lager Beer It takes the French to make wine It takes a pale-faced man from old Japan To make a nice embroidered fan It takes a Turk to make the cigarettes For you American men It takes a black-eyed Hawaiian lad To make ukeleles, but then [Refrain:] It takes an Irishman to make love It seems to fit them just like a glove I know you money-makers are here in New York But all the heart breakers are over in Cork It is not the things that they do But how they do them fascinates you And when it comes to kissing sure they stand alone For years they've practiced on the blarney stone And you'll discover that the world's great lover Came from Ireland [2nd verse:] You've heard them sing in all their Irish songs "Ireland fell from the skies" And I believe it's true, their eyes of blue Are little bits of Heaven too Talk of your gentlemen from foreign lands And the polite things they do But it's the honey-toned Irish voice That steals the heart right out of you