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| BAD TIME GARDA | BESIDE THE SEA | |
| Someone knocked this morning, they wanted
to come in They rang and rang the doorbell, I thought and scratched my chin I hope it's not the Garda they have no time for us Except when they had something they wanted to discuss Well I peeped out through the curtains and saw that I was right It was a black Mariah and they were sittin' tight My brothers sleeping upstairs, they didn't seem to hear Them banging down the front door, I thought that rather queer It's a bad time Garda, the house' an awful sight It's a bad time Garda, come back tomorrow night It's a bad time Garda, the kitchen is a sin You picked a bad time Garda, we'll get some biscuits in Someone's running round upstairs, reluctant to descend Ma and Da are shouting 'You've brought them back again' At least its not the special branch, the Peelers of today Flash their guns And take your sons And you would have no say Well my brother's there In his underwear It's cold as it can be He's hanging out the window I'd rather him than me It's a bad time Garda, the house' an awful sight It's a bad time Garda, come back tomorrow night It's a bad time Garda, the kitchen is a sin You picked a bad time Garda, we'll get some biscuits in We'll get some biscuits in, we'll get some bickys in For you, for you, for you |
When can we go down beside the sea, beside
the sea When can we go down just you and me, just you and me Warm I am feeling inside your arms, inside your arms I want to vanish into your charms, into your charms Travelling out to the sandy coast, the sandy coast Mountains and valleys revive my ghost, revive my ghost Go with the river down to the sea, down to the sea Flow like the river so carelessly, so carelessly The ocean goes rolling, it rolls to the land And that's where we meet it, we greet on the sand And everytime I'm angry the sea gets angry too And everytime I'm happy the sea is calm and blue When can we go down beside the sea, beside the sea When can we go down just you and me, just you and me |
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| CELTIC TIGER | CHILLIN' | |
| Lyrics currently unavailable | Blue sky today Let's get away Out of here Nothing to do In this concrete zoo But the sky is clear Down to the train station Jump on a Dart and travel out to the coast Whenever the sun shone, Howth was the place That the northside loved the most We could get away From here And the sun Let us stray From here So you don't Forget your swimming gear Coz we're gone Chillin', chillin' on the sea-shore, sea-shore We were chillin', chillin' on the sea-shore, sea-shore Seagulls and waves Female enclaves All lookin' So fine in the sun All round the bay Little kids play Making their innocent fun Drifting from radios, soft summer sounds No sweeter a place could you be Whenever the sun shone Howth was the place I'd bury my sorrows at sea We could get away From here And the sun Let us stray From here So you don't Forget your swimming gear Coz we're gone Chillin', chillin' on the sea-shore, sea-shore We were chillin', chillin' on the sea-shore, sea-shore We were laughing and joking, we were talkin' and smoking We were sleeping and swimming, we were loving and living |
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| COLONY | PLACEHOLDER | |
| I sing the song of the colony How many years and you're still not free And your mother cries and you ask god why Greed is the knife and the scars run deep How many races with much reason to weep And your children cry And you ask god why Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town The TB came and killed her family all around Population booms Eleven in two rooms Katie she came from down Townsend street Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet 1916 came They played the patriots game Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats Tenement slums and infested with rats Sleeping on damp straw Trying not to break the law Thomas, he came from Kilmaine in Mayo Semi starvation was the only life you'd know In a two room shack Then jailed in Letterfrack I look to the east, I look to the west To the north and the south, and I'm not too impressed Time after time After crime after crime They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name So he could take the blame if it's not all a game With bible in one hand and a sword in the other They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers And fathers, and sisters and brothers With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art Way of life and culture Tribal in structure We had a civilisation When they were still neanderthal nations We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia Aboriginal Australia The African people with their history so deep And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap You came from Germany, from France, from England And from Spain From Belgium and from Portugal You all done much the same You took what was not yours Went against your own bible You broke your own laws Just to out do the rival But did you ever apologize For the hundreds and millions of lives You destroyed and terrorised Or have you never realized Did you never feel shame For what was done in your country's name And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane And still they teach you in your school About those glorious days of rule And how it's your destiny to be Superior to me But if you've any kind of mind You'll see that all human kind Are the children of this earth And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free Inside our minds we hold, hold the key |
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| DUBLIN TOWN | PLACEHOLDER | |
| Rollin' down to Dublin Town Comin' from the Northside, headin' Southbound The glare of the city, you can see it in the sky See it in the faces when I'm passing them by Dublin Town Bright lights all around All the different sounds Concrete surrounds You need a few pounds or there's nothing to do No muns, no fun in the foggy dew I be signing on, off Gardiner street See all the people struggling just to make ends meet The more unfortunate ones be begging at your feet We'll have to send a warning to the socially elite And I repeat, if you keep a people down In any old town Or country They'll rise don't you see It's the will to survive That keeps them alive And they're starting to see through all the lies That they've contrived, so I say to you all To educate yourself, become well read And start to use the head Contemplate your own situation Find the true enemy and stop banging heads With the victims of its greed Am I getting too serious? Well this was meant to be a love song Well it is a love song because I love my people Not so long ago, back in the good old days I dreamed of Irish laws and Irish ways And saw that the present days weren't so good And the only thing I could think about them that was good Was most of the people that surrounded me But still I call them good old days because of the craic That we had We refused to stay sad If you have your own around you and also possess your health At the end of the day you'll discover that that is the most Essential wealth I throw my mind back And recall the days I used to have the craic Back in Dublin town Getting down to the Irish and Jamaican sounds listenin' and learning about life Helping me make it through the strife Suckin on a big fat spliff full of rocky Flagon in my hand Be makin me feel grand Discussing this and that And thinking about the now Thinking about the future, making myself a vow I wasn't going to waste my life But I was going to live and love Do the best that I could I was going to bring some music to the people and tell them that they were equal But some of them wouldn't listen And this is what is pissin' The rest of us off You would wanna start listening to us, you would Coz to you we aren't going to be good forever Yeh maybe even here, in the Dublin Town Things could get turned upside down |
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| GHOSTS OF OVERDOES | GREAT GAELS OF IRELAND | |
| Hey little baby I want to take you from here Hey little baby I don't want to see you on the gear It's so hard to find your way back Hey little baby it's every parent's worst fear For their child to end up on smack There was pills, there was tabs There was pain and needle jabs And the ghosts overdoses Replace the ghosts of tuberculois There was dust and there was liquid You could buy for just a few quid And escape out of the jungle To return and crawl and stumble Hey little baby I want to take you from here I want to take you away from here Hey little baby I don't want to see you on the gear It's so hard to find your way back Hey little baby it's every parent's worst fear For their child to end up on smack You lie, high, cry "please don't go" Now I walk along these streets All the ghosts, they walk their beats Up to flats and into stairwells Where they lie in heroin hell Little kids they walk right through them I just hope they don't become them |
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| INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL | IT'S ALL GOOD | |
| Lyrics currently unavailable | I am an angry man yeah, I vent it when I
can, yeah On the bag, not the skag The negativity, yeah, pushed onto young paddy, yeah Is a shame, whose to blame? And when the baby cries, yeah, she has been criticised, yeah Been put down, it's passed down But it's all good, it's all good All I say to you today It's all good, sure it's all good All I say to you today And positivity, yeah, it is the way for me, yeah It is truth, it is youth They try to keep us down, yeah They hide the high kings crown, yeah From the Gaels, Kathleen wails And to survive their sting, yeah You have to be the king, yeah Grasp the wealth of yourself Love yourself today, ok, ok Love yourself today, ok, ok |
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| IT'S IMPORTANT | I'VE NO ALIBI | |
| My love is strong for those who are gone Those who have suffered, fought against wrong I will rejoice that some people fight They fight against evil, fight for our rights Someday we'll be happy and free, in harmony, that's right Everyone will old hatreds kill, differences will unite It's important, it's important, it's important, to us And I know we could all live together Because I've seen it with my own two eyes Black man, white man, jew and muslim Seeing no need to despise To despise something because it is different Is an evil that has hurt for so long I've seen them work and play together And the feeling feels so good, it can't be wrong And if you see Mr. James Connolly Will you tell him that it wasn't in vain Because he made us strong, for to fight against wrong And a dream that's strong can never be slain And if you see Robert Nesta Marley Will you tell him that each and every day The words that he spoke are still giving us hope And guiding us through life the right way And I'll try to follow Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Strike a blow for the downtrodden man Because to my nation he tried to give emancipation He was a paddy but for office he ran And Nelson Mandella is a gem of a fella He triumphed because his will was so strong Followed his dream and brought down a regime Laid foundations he can now build upon To us, to us, to us, |
I've no alibi, I'm so bad I cry I've no alibi, laugh until I cry I talk shite, shite, shite, and they buy, buy, buy, buy it I talk shite, shite, shite, and they buy, buy, buy, buy it I wish I was cute and I looked the part Gold chain round my neck and on each arm a tart I wish I was cool with the hip crowd in I could take all my lyrics and throw them in the bin I'd have a six pack stomach like your man Andre Drive round in my jeep and at nightime 'Parte' I'd write throwaway lyrics, with no meaning at all And I'd work on my appearance for the MTV ball Care more about how I looked and how I came across Than the drivel I was writing, for words I'm at a loss I could put out what I liked, just as long as it had a beat And the masses would love it, they would mob me on the street Pour some serious money into the video Have some fly girls shaking their asses don't you know I could dress up like a gangster rapper and pretend I'm from the street Even if I was a rich white idiot Everyone would love me, they'd have no feckin choice Coz I'd be pushed right down their throat Not once, not twice but thrice In the papers, up on billboards, in the news and on your screens I'd be haunting you, you'd probably even see me in your dreams And the media monster, I'd be riding on its back I'd be hunting poor unfortunates, with my truncheon eardrums crack Get an overall tan, sign my autograph for a quid And I'd put across a message that would say this to a kid I'm so trendy, I'm so talented, I'm so handsome. I'm so cool Buy my tape and praise me, I'm a god you fool You're not trendy, you're not talented, you're not handsome, you're not hip I'll be all these things for you and my lyrics will equip Equip you for Eh? Eh? Mmm ? Oh yeah, CDs, posters, T-shirts, all my ice cool merchandise So go now, quickly as you can, to your nearest retail outlet And don't be shy my friend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend Spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, and remember that I LOVE YOU |
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| JAR SONG | JEALOUSY | |
| Lyrics currently unavailable | Mess with my girl, that's what you're trying
to do I don't think so, I'll make you black and blue And everytime I try to explain, she just complain She just complain, she just complain I'm going insane I know my mistrust is causing you pain But hold on, look at that pox over there Look at him stare, I'll tear out his hair Jealousy is cruel Has me like a fool When they look at you, Can't tell what I'll do Can't tell what I'll do Because Your sweet romance Lifts me, fills me with joy I'm in a trance You make me a good boy Your sweet romance Lifts me, fills me with joy I'm in a trance You make me a good You make me a good You make me a bad boy Tell me this and tell me no more See the next man that walks through that door When he looks at you What do you want me to do Should I look down Or should I go to town See I can be an omadhaun But at least I stand up for What's right and what's wrong She thinks I'm wrong, I think I'm right You just walked in I hope you can fight Jealousy is cruel Has me like a fool When they look at you Can't tell what I'll do Can't tell what I'll do Well if I could change in any way You know that I would change today If I could change in any way, today Well if I could change in any way You know that I would change today If I could change in any way, today Your sweet romance Lifts me, fills me with joy I'm in a trance You make me a good boy Your sweet romance Lifts me, fills me with joy I'm in a trance You make me a good You make me a good You make me a good boy |
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| NEGATIVE VIBES | N.Y.C. PADDY | |
| Lyrics currently unavailable | When I walk around this town, dear I do belong here Biddies came before and worked here Built here, got killed here Tyrants put them down and jeered them, Deep down feared them Coz they know that they couldn't get away With what they had done back in Eireann yesterday NYC paddy, NYC paddy, NYC paddy, NYC paddy When I walk around in Brooklyn Paddies still working Woodside and the Bronx Young Biddy I know she loves me People proud and strong They won't be walked on Walked on anymore Biddy knows the score Tell the children why Irish people cry Tell them who they are And of the fight so far NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy Kathleen don't you cry, coz tomorrow They'll be no sorrow Things are lookin' up for Paddies At home and overseas Whether in New York, Perth or Gortahork, Brummy or Berlin Paddies gonna win Toronto, Kilburn, Sydney, Montserrat and Derry Newfoundland or the Banna Strand of Kerry Liverpool, Chicago Manchester and Glasgow We've been there and we've done that Built those places and then sat On the hills and thought of home And travelling Paddy always in roam But she's stronger nowhere young biddy Than the grand old town, of NYC NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy, NYC Paddy |
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| PARTY ON | PLACEHOLDER | |
| Doing E, doing speed, doing cocaine Mix it with alcohol and go insane In the morning the edge of the knife Where the hell is the bright side of life? It's a farcical high for a few hours Then you're blind and you can't see the bright flowers For the light of a child and the glee If you splurge then the law you'll agree Turns you into a shell of what you used to be All the weeks you're living in a fantasy Fantasise about the party to come Then your day-life just doesn't seem fun I'm not telling you how to do your thing I'm just laying down some facts about indulging How the shit going 'round can become Your controller, your dictator, your one I'm giving it up I swear in the New Year.. No more of that for me, you'll see... I'm going to be going straight I can't wait Until this year is gone, party on.. Coming down on the ground in a small house You're a man but you feel like a small mouse Not so long ago you felt like a king Someone give me psychiatrist a ring We'll have no bread and feel feckin' brain-dead All alone in a room full of E-heads Feel so hollow and sickingly and worthless There's no cure in the mosques or the churches I met strangers who barely six hours ago Were the best friends I thought I'd ever know Now they're strangers again 'cos I'm down And I won't say 'hello' if I see them in town |
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| SEANCHAI | SEIZE THE DAY | |
| I wander through the hills, love, with poetry
in my head Seanchai, Seanchai , Seanchai One sip of my poitin, love, and I can raise the dead Seanchai, Seanchai, Seanchai There's music in my voice, love, in every word I say Seanchai, Seanchai, Seanchai The uilleann pipes you'll hear, love, but they'll be far away Seanchai, Seanchai, Seanchai, Seanchai I'll let you hear my ancient craft, dear And all of your sorrows just fade away Leave the war, dear, outside my door, dear And all of your sorrows just fade away The fiddle coos the tattoo of the feet upon the floor Seanchai, Seanchai, Seanchai The wailing of the banshee outside my cabin door Seanchai, Seanchai, Seanchai I speak in Gaelic tongue, love and wisdom is my friend Seanchai, Seanchai, Seanchai When I am gone you'll never see the likes of me again Seanchai, Seanchai, Seanchai, Seanchai |
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| THEY DON'T TEACH THIS SHIT IN SCHOOL | PLACEHOLDER | |
| I guess I'm just a fool But woh no babe They don't teach this shit in school I can't quite see your love for me When you stop and drop me, then take me back, see Then I think I shouldn't leave it up to you Coz the things that you do, you don't seem to have a clue I always take you back and I don't know why That I die When I see you with another boy I do try to ignore it but my memory stores it I really deplore it You took my heart and tore it out of my chest I know you love me the best But you be trying to make me jealous When you're seeing all of them fellas I guess I'm just a fool, but they don't teach this shit in school I still think your cool Baby you're the queen and I'm the king And when you sing you bring spring to this winter king And tis not no fling, coz I'm under your wing And I'm staying put, I'm not in a rut I've got a feeling in my gut About ya, I've got reason to doubt ya But I don't know what I'd do without ya Your eyes shine like the sunshine And your lips are like fine wine And now they're all mine And we dine down by the blue sea It's as pleasant as can be and you're so gentle with me So give me your hand and we'll make love on the sand At the edge of our land, on the strand Banish my blues far away, whack fol de dee dow Banish my blues far away Banish my blues far away, whack fol de dee daw I guess I'm just a fool, but woh no babe Banish my blues away They don't teach this shit in school |
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