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How's it going there everybody? |
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You're very welcome to this evening's cabaret |
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I want to thank you for the trouble you're after taking |
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To come and hear me play |
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I know the effort that you make and all the trouble that you have to take |
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When you decide you're gonna go and see a show |
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Your wife says Oh not Christy Moore, we've seen him loads of times before |
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And we're going to miss Gay Byrne on the Late Late Show |
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Well there's people here upon my word from every corner of the world |
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Portarlington Portlaoise and Tullamore |
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From Two Mile House and Poulaphouca |
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From Blacktrench Cutbush and Boolea |
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Such a crowd I've never seen before |
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Well you are welcome welcome everyone |
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Special branch you're on the run |
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Fine Gael, Fianna Fail or Sinn Fein |
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When the elections are all over |
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We'll all be pushing up clover |
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And everyone in the graveyard votes the same |
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My belly thought my throat was cut |
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And all the restaurants were shut as I was driving out through Kinnegad |
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So I drove on to Mother Hubbard's where I saw a swarm of truckers |
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And I said to myself this place doesn't look too bad |
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In came a 40ft lorry leaking lines of slurry |
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And the king of the road jumped down and he said to me |
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Hey John, don't I know your face |
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Are you Paddy Reilly or Brendan Grace? |
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Are you Mary Black or Freddy White says he |
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Wait til I tell you what happened to me today |
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I was coming up the dual carriageway |
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Half a mile the far side on Naas |
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The Irish Army, they were all over the place |
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So I pulled in and rolled my window down |
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The saighdiuiri they surrounded my car I thought it was the third world war |
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Some of the boys were throwin Shi'ite shapes |
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I said brigadier general what appears to be the trouble |
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He said "Don't forget your shovel" |
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Have you any auld autographs or tapes? |
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I do.. what about the leb? |
