[ti:Riding The High Stool] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Graffiti Tongue] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Riding the High Stool - Christy Moore [00:05.84]I was riding the high stool expandin' and expoundin' [00:10.15]On the price of rice in Siera Leone [00:12.46]And the height of the beef mountain [00:14.90]As to where did Jack Doyle meet Movita [00:17.46]How many wives did the Aga Khan [00:19.71]Dismountin' from my high horse [00:22.27]I couldn't find the handle of the bar room door [00:27.04]Yeah sure I knew it all then up again' the counter [00:29.36]I'd weigh you up in ten seconds flat [00:34.22]Ya see I was a great judge of character [00:36.66]My instincts always tellin' me exactly what kinda guy I got [00:44.16]'Til I turned to go that is [00:46.29]Whereupon I couldn't tell my arse from my well-bent elbow [00:52.47]I was heading down the streets of Laredo singin' Red Sails in the Sunset [00:57.10]Sure it was no wonder we knew it all then [01:02.16]Twas like drinkin' porter off a sore leg sez Ber Murphy [01:06.89]"Would ye ever ask me bollix" sez Kenny Barry [01:11.76]I showed them the colour of me money when I got back from Katanga [01:16.26]There's no business like show business sez Titch Maher in Flood's bar [01:21.38]After snaggin' turnips for the Holy Fathers [01:26.24]But after it got dark much later; [01:31.05]Down by the pinkeen bridge [01:32.99]I cried buckets in the river [01:35.68]When Mickser sang"Oh gentle Swallows" [01:41.25]Oh gentle swallows [01:46.95]For knowin' it all is a lonely place to be [01:51.52]Yet still I found it very hard to say [01:56.39]"Hey man this load is too much for me [02:01.33]Til I was completely terrified [02:06.33]Whereupon a light ship came upon my way [02:10.08]And caught me in its beam [02:15.76]Before I went under yet again [02:19.33]For the very last time [02:23.45]I was ridin' the high stool expandin' and expoundin' [02:28.39]Swimming in the wine lakes and climbing the beef mountains [02:33.27]Ridin' the high stool expandin' and expoundin' [02:37.33]On the price of rice in Siera Leone [02:39.70]And the height of the beef mountain [02:42.80]Ridin' the high stool