Now Denny O'Rafferty's motor car is the greatest I declare
It's made up of bits and pieces that he picked up here and there
The engine must be ages old but it's still got lots of power
With a gallon of stout in the petrol tank it does 90 miles an hour
What a wonderful motor car, it's the greatest ever seen
It used to be black as me father's hat, now it's 40 shades of green
On TV and the radio and in every public bar
The burning question of the day is Rafferty's motor car
Now two of the wheels are triangular and the third one's off a pram
The fourth is the last remaining wheel from off a double and tram
The number plates in Gaelic and the plug
won't even spark
And the chassis came off of a tinker's car that collapsed in Phoenix Park
Now go for a ride in the motor car and you'll end up with the shakes
The road from Cork to Dublin is a veil of pains and aches
When traffic lights turn red the hedge had best jump out the door
For the moment that Denny treads on the brakes his foot'll go through the floor
Oh what a wonderful motor car, it's the greatest ever seen
It used to be black as me father's hat, now it's 40 shades of green
On TV and the radio and in every public bar
The burning question of the day is Rafferty's motor car
Now if you could see the upholstery your eyes would start to pop
It's nothing but empty beer crates with a load of sacks on top
The windscreen's gone to Lord knows where and there's mud balls in the horn
And I reckon he'd only get half a quid if he took it to the pawn
Now Denny will get a little bit of a kick from the windscreen and he'll get a little bit of a kick from the horn
He's driving around last week when the engine did the splits
It went up in smoke and nearly blew O'Connell Street in bits
They searched around for Denny and found he'd landed up by heck
Away up on top of the GPO with his LP sound his neck
Oh what a wonderful motor car, it's the greatest ever seen
It used to be black as me father's hat, now it's 40 shades of green
On TV and the radio and in every public bar
The burning question of the day is Rafferty's motor car
Rafferty's motor car