gangway But some kind folks helped me board They helped me to a table Poured whiskey down my throat They sat me at a table And I lost my watch and coat
bottle of Pontchetrain Chalmette by moonlight To take away the pain Card sharks and blue harps And dolphins who can leap In my Blue Heaven Where I can laugh And
Christy Brown a clown around town Now he's a man of renown from Dingle to Down I type with me toes Suck stout through me nose And where it's gonna end
on the rant with some music and more They'd drink porter in Maura's way over in Fore And never get drunk but stay sober There was Harry the banjo and
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they have used you And covered you with mud It was deep down in your womb my love I drank my quart of sin While chinamen played cards and draughts And
You told me tales of love and glory Same old sad songs, same old story The sirens sing no lullaby And no-one knows but Lorelei By castles out of fairytales
Now the party's over And the money's all gone You remember feeling like Jesus' son Your girl has left your side And now you're gonna get crucified They
wall Pulled the sheets around my head Tried to sleep, and dream my way Back to you again Count the days Slowly passing by Step on a plane And fly away
Across the dark and dusty plain Where scars of old dry rivers run Night unfolds, a coal black shroud Across the hard and stony ground Distant stars
the moon is full Across the blood red plain Every step and every breath Brings me nearer home The spirits watch me on my way They whisper on the wind And
two graveyards I won against the odds With the smiling saints And the silent saviours With the maggots and the gods I cursed the things they showed me I could never see again And
rain And the car-parks going up And they're pulling down the pubs And its just another bloody rainy day Oh sweet city of my dreams Of speed and skill
name and deed His family dispossessed and slaughtered They put a price upon his head His name is know in song and story His deeds are legends still And
