Lawless-Christy Moore

[ti:Lawless] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Collection Part Two] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.02]Lawless - Christy Moore [00:01.10]Written by：Mick Curry [00:02.10] [00:11.43]He was Lawless by name [00:13.29]Lawless by nature [00:15.12]He was trouble right from the start [00:17.39] [00:19.08]Hard as nails [00:20.54]Runnin' wild through the streets [00:22.23]He was breakin' his poor mother's heart [00:24.71] [00:26.25]Nature played a trick on lawless [00:29.58]And the humour of nature is cruel [00:31.94] [00:34.00]He grew up as we all had expected [00:36.71] [00:37.24]Into a dangerous fool [00:39.45] [00:42.49]He was a hard man a man for all seasons [00:45.92]He was always out for a fight [00:48.31] [00:49.68]He couldn't hold drink but still he'd get plastered [00:52.99]In clark's every Saturday night [00:55.45] [00:56.64]Strip to the vest and challenge the best [01:00.31]Until the guards they were called to come fast [01:02.70] [01:03.96]And they'd lock him away for the rest of the day [01:07.37]And let him out on the Sunday for mass [01:09.88] [01:13.10]Oh one night he went down [01:14.58]To the ring's end regatta [01:16.48]Where he met up with the [01:17.85]Bold [01:18.26]Dolly [01:18.81]Platts [01:19.17] [01:22.06]She wasn't exactly what you'd call beauty [01:25.59]But she was the belle of our flats [01:27.99] [01:29.36]A whirlwind romance and Dolly took a [01:32.23]Flier [01:32.79]With lawless she would settle down [01:35.05] [01:36.36]It was pure coincidence three months before [01:39.90]There was a yankee destroyer in town [01:42.17] [01:45.72]And the couple were blessed with one of god's miracles [01:48.84]Before six months had elapsed [01:51.45] [01:52.76]Dolly gave birth to a nine pound black baby [01:56.03]And lawless was fit to collapse [01:58.37] [01:59.64]She swore she'd never been touched by another [02:02.92]And lawless took her at her word [02:05.24] [02:06.76]And the neighbours exclaimed 'he's the spit of his [02:09.43]Father and the cuckoo is a wonderful bird' [02:12.53] [02:26.41]Oh now lawless stays in and looks after the family [02:30.19]While Dolly goes out for the night [02:32.51] [02:35.50]The old gossips all say she's free in her ways [02:39.22]And their evil rumours ran rife [02:41.85] [02:42.76]When lawless heard this he waited for Dolly [02:46.45]In the bridge where the river runs low [02:48.94] [02:50.11]Noone will ever know what happened next [02:53.40]But Dolly drowned in the dodder [02:55.37]Below [02:55.96] [02:59.04]Some say he's crazy and more say he's evil [03:02.73]Everyone says that he's mad [03:05.34] [03:08.17]Noone will defend him he was no angel [03:11.65]But I'll tell you he wasn't all bad [03:14.05] [03:17.35]They've locked him away for the rest of his natural [03:20.58]Never again will he see [03:22.91] [03:26.31]Down the back of ring's end [03:27.90]There's a lonely child playing [03:29.18] [03:29.73]Where the liffey flows into the sea