If I Get An Encore-Christy Moore

[ti:If I Get An Encore] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Collection Part Two] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]If I Get An Encore - Christy Moore [00:00.02]Written by：Christy Moore [00:00.04] [00:09.03]When I first heard Tommy Makem and [00:11.92]The Clancy's my future it was sealed [00:14.80] [00:16.43]I was bitten by the ballad bug and since then [00:19.58]The wound has never healed [00:21.61] [00:22.90]When I got my first guitar my fingers bled until [00:26.31]I learned a chord or two [00:28.48] [00:29.92]I pulled on my aran sweater wrote my Ma a goodbye letter [00:34.22]And started throwing shapes in O'Donoghue's [00:37.74] [00:38.77]I've played every lounge in Ireland from [00:41.23]Dingle right up to Donegal [00:44.07] [00:45.44]I've sung Nancy Spain on stages [00:47.85]Where no other ballad singers play at all [00:50.69] [00:52.28]From the rising sun in Brownstown to the Blue Lagoon [00:55.51]Above in Sligo Town [00:57.37] [00:59.17]Ballymurphy and the Bogside Ballinamore [01:02.35]And even once in Ballinasloe [01:04.06] [01:05.75]If I get an encore I go home feeling like a king [01:10.94] [01:12.58]It's a two way situation I get a lot of pleasure when I sing [01:17.51] [01:21.31]I played cabaret in Bundoran and marquees for Father Horan [01:25.68]And I once stood in for Johnny McEvoy [01:28.76] [01:30.12]From Berlin to San Francisco I've gone on before the disco [01:34.70]Lashing out the four green fields of Athenry [01:37.69] [01:39.25]Mountbellew was like purgatory [01:41.40]But Tulsk was just like being in hell [01:44.28] [01:45.75]I've received my education in the lounges of the nation [01:50.20]After 25 years I am doing well [01:53.05] [01:54.87]If I get an encore I go home feeling like a king [01:59.70] [02:01.41]It's a two way situation I get a lot of pleasure when I sing [02:06.23] [02:10.02]I was playing in the Meeting place [02:12.43]When half the Special Branch came to the door [02:15.16] [02:16.71]They were looking for an outlaw [02:18.30]He stole their trousers back in 1984 [02:21.95] [02:23.32]They started listening to my songs and [02:25.72]Hung around till after the show [02:28.12] [02:29.93]If I ever need a taxi plate or a massage at a special rate [02:34.41]They're the boys to tell me where to go [02:36.95] [02:38.94]If I get an encore I go home feeling like a king [02:43.98] [02:45.31]It's a two way situation I get a lot of pleasure [02:51.48]When I sing