Christy Moore – Lisdoonvarna And Ill Tell Me Ma (Guitar)

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How's it goin' there everybody

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Here we are in the County Clare

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It's a long, long way from here to there

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the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher

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The Tulla and the Kilfenora

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Micho Russell, Doctor Bill

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Willie Clancy, Noel Hill

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Flutes and fiddles everywhere

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If it's music you want

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You should go to Clare

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Oh, Lisdoonvarna

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Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna!

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Everybody needs a break, climb a mountain or jump in a lake

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Some head after exotic places, others go to the Galway races

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A cousin of mine goes pot-holing, a cousin of her's loves Joe Dolan

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Mattie goes to the South of France, Jim to the dogs, Peter to the dance

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Summer comes around each year, we go there and they come here

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Some jet after...Frijiliana

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But I always go to Lisdoonvarna

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I always leave on a Thursday night

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With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight

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I like to hit Lisdoon

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In around Friday afternoon

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This gives me time to get me tent up and my gear together

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I don't need to worry about the weather

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Ramble in for a pint of stout

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You'd never know who'd be hangin' about!

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There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin

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And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn

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And there's Adam, Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald

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Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World

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Finbarr, Charlie and Jim Hand

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And they drinkin' pints to bate the band

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Why wouldnt they theyre getting it for nothing!

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The multitudes, they flocked in throngs

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To hear the music and the songs

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Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans

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With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans

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Theres mighty craic. Loads of frolics

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Pioneers and alcoholics

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PLAC, SPUC and the FCA

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Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA

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Hairy chests and milk-white thighs

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Mickey dodgers in disguise

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Mc Graths, O'Briens, Pippins, Coxs

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Massage parlours in horse boxes

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The BBC are makin' tapes, takin' breaks and throwin shapes

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There's amhráns, bodhráns, amadáns

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Hairy freaks, Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs, Jesus freaks

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This is heaven, this is hell

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Who cares? Who can tell?

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(Anyone for the last few Choc Ices, now?)

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A 747 for Jackson Browne

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They had to build a special runway just to get him down

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Before the Chieftains could start to play

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Six creamy pints, 20 Majors and a box of matches came out on a tray

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Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan

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Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin'

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Clannad were playin' "Harry's Game"

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Christy was singin' "Nancy Spain"

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Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields

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Together singin' "The Four Green Fields"

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Van the Man and Emmy Lou

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Moving Hearts and Planxty too!

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I'll tell me ma when I come home

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the boys won't leave the girls alone

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they pull me hair and stole my comb

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well that's alright till I come home

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She is handsome she is pretty

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she's the belle of Belfast city

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she's a courtin' one two three

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please won't you tell me who is she