N17-The Saw Doctors

[ti:N17] [ar:The Saw Doctors] [al:2525 the Best of the Saw Doctors Vol II] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]N17 - The Saw Doctors [00:15.38]Well I didn't see much future [00:18.24] [00:18.81]When I left the Christian brothers school [00:21.62] [00:22.37]So I waved it goodbye with a wistful smile [00:26.15]And I left the girls of Tuam [00:29.37]And sometimes when I'm reminiscing [00:32.85]I see the prefabs and my old friends [00:35.79] [00:36.47]And I know that they'll be changed or gone [00:40.47]By the time I get home again [00:43.18]And I wish I was on that N 17 [00:48.19](Stone walls and the grasses green) [00:50.55]Yes I wish I was on that N 17 [00:55.07](Stone walls and the grasses green) [00:57.77] [00:58.63]Travelling with just my thoughts and dreams [01:03.27] [01:11.79]Well the ould fella left me to Shannon [01:14.60] [01:15.19]Was the last time I travelled that road [01:18.73]And as I turned left at Claregalway [01:21.80]I could feel a lump in my throat [01:25.13] [01:25.80]As I pictured the thousands of times [01:28.70] [01:29.23]That I travelled that well worn track [01:32.01] [01:32.69]And I know that things would be different [01:36.72]If I ever decide to go back [01:39.40]And I wish I was on that N 17 [01:44.26](Stone walls and the grasses green) [01:46.69]Yes I wish I was on that N 17 [01:51.25](Stone walls and the grasses green) [01:53.76] [01:54.88]Travelling with just my thoughts and dreams [01:59.60] [02:22.44]Now as I tumble down highways [02:24.94] [02:25.79]Or filthy overcrowded trains [02:28.26] [02:29.56]There's no one to talk to in transit [02:32.13] [02:33.00]So I sit there and daydream in vain [02:35.42] [02:36.28]And behind all these muddled up problems [02:39.53] [02:40.08]Of living on a foreign soil [02:42.73] [02:43.88]I can still see the twists and turns on the road [02:47.55]From the square to the town of the tribes [02:50.16]And I wish I was on that N 17 [02:55.08](Stone walls and the grasses green) [02:57.59]Yes I wish I was on that N 17 [03:02.11](Stone walls and the grasses green) [03:04.66] [03:05.75]Travelling with just my thoughts and dreams [03:10.35] [03:12.73]Travelling with my thoughts and dreams [03:17.44] [03:47.93]Travelling with my thoughts and dreams [03:50.45] [03:51.20]Travelling with my thoughts and dreams [03:53.91] [03:54.60]Travelling with my thoughts and dreams [03:57.31] [03:58.05]Travelling with my thoughts and dreams