Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Lisdoonvarna, artist - Christy Moore. Album song Ride On, in the genre ПопDate of issue: 08.09.1991
Record label: Rhino
Song language: English
Lisdoonvarna |
| How’s it goin' there everybody |
| From Cork, New York, Dundalk, Gortahork and Glenamaddy |
| Here we are in the County Clare |
| It’s a long, long way from here to there |
| There’s the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher |
| The Tulla and the Kilfenora |
| Micho Russell, Doctor Bill |
| Willie Clancy, Noel Hill |
| Flutes and fiddles everywhere |
| If it’s music you want |
| You should go to Clare |
| Oh, Lisdoonvarna |
| Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna! |
| Everybody needs a break |
| Climb a mountain or jump in a lake |
| Some head off to exotic places |
| Others go to the Galway Races |
| Mattie goes to the South of France |
| Jim to the dogs, Peter to the dance |
| A cousin of mine goes potholing |
| A cousin of heres loves Joe Dolan |
| Summer comes around each year |
| We go there and they come here |
| Some jet off to … Frigiliana |
| But I always go to Lisdoonvarna |
| I always leave on a Thursday night |
| With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight |
| I like to hit Lisdoon |
| In around Friday afternoon |
| This gives me time to get me tent up and my gear together |
| I don’t need to worry about the weather |
| Ramble in for a pint of stout |
| You’d never know who’d be hangin' about! |
| There’s a Dutchman playing a mandolin |
| And a German looking for Liam Óg O’Floinn |
| And there’s Adam, Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald |
| Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World |
| Finbarr, Charlie and Jim Hand |
| And they drinkin' pints to bate the band |
| The multitudes, they flocked in throngs |
| To hear the music and the songs |
| Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans |
| With bottles — barrels — flagons — cans |
| Mighty craic. |
| Loads of frolics |
| Pioneers and alcoholics |
| PLAC, SPUC and the FCA |
| Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA |
| Hairy chests and milk-white thighs |
| Mickey dodgers in disguise |
| Mc Graths, O’Briens, Pippins, Coxs |
| Massage parlours in horse boxes |
| There’s amhráns, bodhráns, amadáns |
| Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs, Jesus freaks |
| RTE are makin' tapes, takin' breaks and throwin' shapes |
| This is heaven, this is hell |
| Who cares? |
| Who can tell? |
| (Anyone for the last few Choc Ices, now?) |
| A 747 for Jackson Browne |
| They had to build a special runway just to get him down |
| Before the Chieftains could start to play |
| Seven creamy pints came out on a tray |
| Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan |
| Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin' |
| Clannad were playin' «Harry's Game» |
| Christy was singin' «Nancy Spain» |
| Mary O’Hara and Brush Shields |
| Together singin' «The Four Green Fields» |
| Van the Man and Emmy Lou |
| Moving Hearts and Planxty too! |
| Everybody needs a break |
| Climb a mountain or jump in a lake |
| Sean Doherty goes to the Rose of Tralee |
| Oliver J. Flanagan goes swimming in the Holy Sea |
| But I like the music and the open air |
| So every Summer I go to Clare |
| Coz Woodstock, Knock nor the Feast of Cana |
| Can hold a match to Lisdoonvarna |