Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Roisin Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend, artist - Thin Lizzy. Date of issue: 31.12.2010
Song language: English
Roisin Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend |
| Tell me the legends of long ago |
| When the kings and queens would dance in the realm of the Black Rose |
| Play me the melodies I want to know |
| So I can teach my children, oh Pray tell me the story of young CЈ Chulainn |
| How his eyes were dark his expression sullen |
| And how he’d fight and always won |
| And how they cried when he was fallen |
| Oh tell me the story of the Queen of this land |
| And how her sons died at her own hand |
| And how fools obey commands |
| Oh tell me the legends of long ago |
| Where the mountains of Mourne come down to the sea |
| Will she no come back to me Will she no come back to me Oh Shenandoah I hear you calling |
| Far away you rolling river |
| Roll down the mountain side |
| On down on down go lassie go Oh Tell me the legends of long ago |
| When the kings and queens would dance in the realms of the Black Rose |
| Play me the melodies so I might know |
| So I can tell my children, oh My Roisin Dubh is my one and only true love |
| It was a joy that Joyce brought to me While William Butler waits |
| And Oscar, he’s going Wilde |
| Ah sure, Brendan where have you Behan? |
| Looking for a girl with green eyes |
| My dark Rosaleen is my only colleen |
| That Georgie knows Best |
| But Van is the man |
| Starvation once again |
| Drinking whiskey in the jar-o |
| Synge’s Playboy of the Western World |
| As Shaw, Sean I was born and reared there |
| Where the Mountains of Mourne come down to the sea |
| Is such a long, long way from Tipperary |