Lisdoonvarna-Christy Moore

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[ar:Christy Moore]
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[00:02.51]Oh Lisdoonvarn
[00:06.25]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna
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[00:10.62]Oh Lisdoonvarn
[00:14.67]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna
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[00:21.69]How's it goin' there everybody
[00:23.63]From Cork New York Dundalk Gortahork and Glenamaddy
[00:27.35]Here we are in the County Clare
[00:29.16]It's a long long way from here to there
[00:32.34]There's the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher
[00:35.27]The Tulla and the Kilfenora
[00:37.00]Miko Russell Doctor Bill
[00:39.31]Willy Clancy Noel Hill
[00:41.74]Flutes and fiddles everywhere
[00:43.37]If it's music you want
[00:45.67]You should go to Clare
[00:47.98]Oh Lisdoonvarn
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[00:52.36]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna
[00:56.85]Everybody needs a break
[00:58.97]Climb a mountain or jump in a lake
[01:01.41]Some head off to exotic places
[01:03.71]Others go to the Galway Races
[01:05.40]Mattie goes to the South of France
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[01:09.15]Jim to the dogs Peter to the dance
[01:11.59]A cousin of mine goes potholing
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[01:13.98]A cousin of heres loves Joe Dolan
[01:15.85]Summer comes around each year
[01:17.16]We go there and they come here
[01:18.53]Some jet off to Frijiliana
[01:20.47]Oh Lisdoonvarn
[01:26.27]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna
[01:32.39]But I always go to Lisdoonvarna
[01:34.13]I always leave on a Thursday night
[01:36.07]With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight
[01:39.50]I like to hit Lisdoon
[01:40.56]In around Friday afternoon
[01:41.62]This gives me time to get me tent up and my gear together
[01:43.92]I don't need to worry about the weather
[01:46.17]Ramble in for a pint of stout
[01:47.42]You'd never know who'd be hangin' about
[01:49.55]There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin
[01:52.86]And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn
[01:55.04]And there's Adam Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald
[01:56.59]Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World
[01:59.27]Finbarr Charlie and Jim Hand
[02:01.09]And they drinkin' pints to bate the band
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[02:05.59]Oh Lisdoonvarn
[02:10.02]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna
[02:14.08]The multitudes they flocked in throngs
[02:16.45]To hear the music and the songs
[02:18.69]Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans
[02:20.45]With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans
[02:22.88]Mighty craic Loads of frolics
[02:27.68]Pioneers and alcoholics
[02:29.74]PLAC SPUC and the FCA
[02:31.99]Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA
[02:34.11]Hairy chests and milk-white thighs
[02:36.11]Mickey dodgers in disguise
[02:38.18]Mc Graths O'Briens Pippins Coxs
[02:40.86]Massage parlours in horse boxes
[02:42.55]There's amhráns bodhráns amadáns
[02:45.92]Arab sheiks Hindu Sikhs Jesus freaks
[02:52.50]RTE are makin' tapes takin' breaks and throwin' shapes
[02:55.18]This is heaven this is hell
[02:58.18]Who cares Who can tell
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[02:59.93]Oh Lisdoonvarn
[03:00.49]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna
[03:06.73]A 747 for Jackson Browne
[03:08.35]They had to build a special runway just to get him down
[03:11.03]Before the Chieftains could start to play
[03:12.97]Seven creamy pints came out on a tray
[03:15.34]Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan
[03:17.52]Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin'
[03:19.58]Clannad were playin'"Harry's Game"
[03:21.02]Christy was singin'"Nancy Spain"
[03:23.26]Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields
[03:25.89]Together singin'"The Four Green Fields"
[03:27.82]Van the Man and Emmy Lou
[03:30.19]Moving Hearts and Planxty too
[03:32.25]Oh Lisdoonvarn
[03:36.19]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna
[03:41.18]Everybody needs a break
[03:42.86]Climb a mountain or jump in a lake
[03:45.04]Sean Doherty goes to the Rose of Tralee
[03:48.02]Oliver J Flanagan goes swimming in the Holy Sea
[03:51.14]But I like the music and the open air
[03:53.57]So every Summer I go to Clare
[03:55.51]Coz Woodstock Knock nor the Feast of Cana
[03:57.57]Can hold a match to Lisdoonvarna
[03:59.63]Oh Lisdoonvarn
[04:03.87]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna
[04:07.49]Oh Lisdoonvarn
[04:12.36]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna
[04:16.72]Oh Lisdoonvarn
[04:20.89]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna