On The Mainland Lyrics

[00:00.00]	On the Mainland - Christy Moore
[00:15.18]	I was over on the Mainland
[00:17.55]	Doing me act in some old civic hall
[00:21.67]	It was the night before we stormed the hackney empire
[00:26.30]	My adrenaline got pumpin' when the crowd demanded more
[00:32.01]	I couldn't sleep a wink
[00:33.76]	So I turned on to the BBC World Service
[00:38.32]	Comin' at me from New Delhi
[00:40.51]	Or some other long lost Colonial shore
[00:47.07]	When a lovely English man came on the wireless
[00:51.58]	With a gorgeous sweet dulcet Portland placed clipped tone
[00:57.16]	He announced that the winner
[00:59.23]	Of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature
[01:03.78]	Was a British poet
[01:08.09]	"Séamus Heaney from Londonderry" sez he
[01:12.68]	As cool as cool could be
[01:19.35]	So I roared out for tea and toasted muffins
[01:23.79]	And a pair of hard-boiled eggs to calm my nerves
[01:28.42]	You never claimed George Best nor Alex Higgins
[01:32.60]	Nor you never claimed Bellaghy's other boys
[01:37.22]	But that's the way things are upon the Mainland
[01:41.54]	Where the Quarehawks are still sucking
[01:43.72]	The wee small birds' eggs dry
[02:19.64]	I was over on the mainland
[02:21.94]	Doing me act in some old civic hall

[00:00.00]	On the Mainland - Christy Moore
[00:15.18]	I was over on the Mainland
[00:17.55]	Doing me act in some old civic hall
[00:21.67]	It was the night before we stormed the hackney empire
[00:26.30]	My adrenaline got pumpin' when the crowd demanded more
[00:32.01]	I couldn' t sleep a wink
[00:33.76]	So I turned on to the BBC World Service
[00:38.32]	Comin' at me from New Delhi
[00:40.51]	Or some other long lost Colonial shore
[00:47.07]	When a lovely English man came on the wireless
[00:51.58]	With a gorgeous sweet dulcet Portland placed clipped tone
[00:57.16]	He announced that the winner
[00:59.23]	Of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature
[01:03.78]	Was a British poet
[01:08.09]	" S amus Heaney from Londonderry" sez he
[01:12.68]	As cool as cool could be
[01:19.35]	So I roared out for tea and toasted muffins
[01:23.79]	And a pair of hard-boiled eggs to calm my nerves
[01:28.42]	You never claimed George Best nor Alex Higgins
[01:32.60]	Nor you never claimed Bellaghy' s other boys
[01:37.22]	But that' s the way things are upon the Mainland
[01:41.54]	Where the Quarehawks are still sucking
[01:43.72]	The wee small birds' eggs dry
[02:19.64]	I was over on the mainland
[02:21.94]	Doing me act in some old civic hall

[00:00.00]	On the Mainland - Christy Moore
[00:15.18]	I was over on the Mainland
[00:17.55]	Doing me act in some old civic hall
[00:21.67]	It was the night before we stormed the hackney empire
[00:26.30]	My adrenaline got pumpin' when the crowd demanded more
[00:32.01]	I couldn' t sleep a wink
[00:33.76]	So I turned on to the BBC World Service
[00:38.32]	Comin' at me from New Delhi
[00:40.51]	Or some other long lost Colonial shore
[00:47.07]	When a lovely English man came on the wireless
[00:51.58]	With a gorgeous sweet dulcet Portland placed clipped tone
[00:57.16]	He announced that the winner
[00:59.23]	Of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature
[01:03.78]	Was a British poet
[01:08.09]	" S amus Heaney from Londonderry" sez he
[01:12.68]	As cool as cool could be
[01:19.35]	So I roared out for tea and toasted muffins
[01:23.79]	And a pair of hard-boiled eggs to calm my nerves
[01:28.42]	You never claimed George Best nor Alex Higgins
[01:32.60]	Nor you never claimed Bellaghy' s other boys
[01:37.22]	But that' s the way things are upon the Mainland
[01:41.54]	Where the Quarehawks are still sucking
[01:43.72]	The wee small birds' eggs dry
[02:19.64]	I was over on the mainland
[02:21.94]	Doing me act in some old civic hall

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