Smoke & Strong Whiskey-Christy Moore

[ti:Smoke & Strong Whiskey] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Collection Part Two] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Smoke & Strong Whiskey - Christy Moore [00:16.27]Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers [00:18.85] [00:19.50]Whose husbands and fathers alike [00:21.32] [00:22.82]Drink black beer in the same public houses [00:25.31] [00:26.94]Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey [00:29.01] [00:32.63]Mammies and daddies skipping ropes [00:35.43] [00:36.40]Lectures from priests living in hope [00:38.72] [00:40.05]That they've not mistaken the brand of their coats [00:42.70] [00:43.22]They've paid for by spiritual teachings [00:45.45] [00:49.21]A busy year this streets running red [00:51.75] [00:52.98]How many sent to their nuptial bed [00:55.53] [00:56.39]And how many sent home to a winter of graves [00:59.24] [00:59.94]How many wait in for the slaughter [01:02.41] [01:05.72]Oh the holy ground [01:10.15] [01:13.11]Ceud mile failte there's saints [01:15.35]And there's scholars to see [01:16.72] [01:20.40]Oh the holy ground [01:24.55] [01:27.72]The far away hills ain't as green [01:29.93]As they once used to be [01:31.14] [01:42.40]It's Easter again and we cannot forget [01:44.85] [01:46.07]Brothers and sisters and all that was said [01:48.69] [01:49.37]So practise your pipes stand proud in the wet [01:52.29] [01:53.08]But the eyes of the world are upon you [01:55.51] [01:58.96]God in his mercy has given us men [02:01.37] [02:02.41]To lead us to peace but they can't bring an end [02:05.22] [02:05.97]To the profits that pay off the lease on the land [02:08.94] [02:09.60]We still send them over the water [02:11.85] [02:15.30]Seventeen years and Kelly is a man [02:17.79] [02:18.89]Who stands on the street with a gun in his hand [02:21.32] [02:22.29]It's protecting the pipers that play in the band [02:25.14] [02:25.92]While the enemy waits with an army [02:28.39] [02:31.70]Oh the holy ground [02:35.99] [02:39.07]Ceud mile failte there's saints [02:41.09]And there's scholars to see [02:42.40] [02:46.20]Oh the holy ground [02:50.42] [02:53.46]The far away hills ain't as green [02:55.63]As they once used to be [02:56.91] [03:08.22]Dia le hEireann suckle the empire [03:10.46] [03:11.68]Dia le hEireann suffer the loss [03:14.01] [03:15.08]Of the green to the blue while the media feeds [03:17.87] [03:18.73]On the blood and the pain and the hatred [03:20.58] [03:24.37]Father walks home on the colourless night [03:26.83] [03:27.88]And the organisation has blinded his sight [03:30.49] [03:31.66]His wife and his kids are sleeping tonight [03:34.32] [03:35.12]In the arms of sweet Jesus and Mary [03:37.36] [03:40.79]Oh the holy ground [03:45.03] [03:48.08]Ceud mile failte there's saints [03:50.18]And there's scholars to see [03:51.57] [03:55.24]Oh the holy ground [03:59.44] [04:02.23]The far away hills ain't as green [04:04.90]As they once used to be [04:06.18] [04:09.59]Oh the holy ground [04:13.89] [04:16.98]Ceud mile failte there's saints [04:19.09]And there's scholars to see [04:20.59] [04:24.05]Oh the holy ground [04:28.23] [04:31.32]The far away hills ain't as green [04:33.40]As they once used to be [04:34.87] [04:38.41]Oh the holy ground [04:42.67] [04:45.93]Ceud mile failte there's saints [04:47.84]And there's scholars to see [04:49.36] [04:52.88]Oh the holy ground [04:57.17] [05:00.37]The far away hills ain't as green [05:02.60]As they once used to be [05:04.00] [05:07.49]Oh the holy ground