My Tribute to Tyrone (De La Soul style)

Three is the magic number!
Yes it is, that's the magic number!
Somewhere in this quest for Sam Maguire!
You have three All-Irelands for Tyrone!
That's the Magic number!

Everyone said we're a County of Caravans!
And couldn't do jack without Peter Canavan!
Then he got crooked in 2003!
In a Semi-Final against Kerry!

We hung on for a Final against Armagh!
Who won the previous Year, for a laugh!
The jokes at our expense by wans from Derry!
They won an All-Ireland before the return of mighty Kerry!

Everybody wants to play in Croke Park!
Everybody wants to win a winners Medal!
Tyrone won by 3 points at that Year!
The Orchard men always back peddled!

No more, no less! You don't have to guess!
Tyrone won by three, that's the magic number!

Then, once again, in 2005!
Armagh became the bane of our lives!
A Semi-Final which could've gone either way!
Could we have scored a difficult free, "No Way!"

But come the hour come Canavan!
Proved, once again, the Man!
Winning by a single point that day!
Kerry, once again, standing in our way!

Canavan's last Hurrah!
Was to score a screamer!
Tyrone won by three in 2005!
That's the magic number!

Then later we had to do without!
The creative force McGuigan, known in Ardboe as 'Snout'!
Losing to Laois, Meath and Derry!
Paving the way for dominance by Kerry!

But then O'Neill retired after an argument!
Survival in the National league was Paramount!
Winning ugly proved to be the day's order!
Wins in our side of the dreaded border!

Then McMenamin, McMahon and Gourley!
Said they wouldn't shave until they won number three!
Struggling at first against Mayo!
But against Dublin and Wexford we stole the show!

Then Kerry again!
Story was the same!
Tyrone got number three, that's the magic number!