Lisdoonvarna-Christy Moore

[ti:Lisdoonvarna] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Ride On] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.51]Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:06.25]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:09.31] [00:10.62]Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:14.67]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:17.51] [00:21.69]How's it goin' there everybody [00:23.63]From Cork New York Dundalk Gortahork and Glenamaddy [00:27.35]Here we are in the County Clare [00:29.16]It's a long long way from here to there [00:32.34]There's the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher [00:35.27]The Tulla and the Kilfenora [00:37.00]Miko Russell Doctor Bill [00:39.31]Willy Clancy Noel Hill [00:41.74]Flutes and fiddles everywhere [00:43.37]If it's music you want [00:45.67]You should go to Clare [00:47.98]Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:49.91] [00:52.36]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:56.85]Everybody needs a break [00:58.97]Climb a mountain or jump in a lake [01:01.41]Some head off to exotic places [01:03.71]Others go to the Galway Races [01:05.40]Mattie goes to the South of France [01:07.96] [01:09.15]Jim to the dogs Peter to the dance [01:11.59]A cousin of mine goes potholing [01:13.14] [01:13.98]A cousin of heres loves Joe Dolan [01:15.85]Summer comes around each year [01:17.16]We go there and they come here [01:18.53]Some jet off to Frijiliana [01:20.47]Oh Lisdoonvarn [01:26.27]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [01:32.39]But I always go to Lisdoonvarna [01:34.13]I always leave on a Thursday night [01:36.07]With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight [01:39.50]I like to hit Lisdoon [01:40.56]In around Friday afternoon [01:41.62]This gives me time to get me tent up and my gear together [01:43.92]I don't need to worry about the weather [01:46.17]Ramble in for a pint of stout [01:47.42]You'd never know who'd be hangin' about [01:49.55]There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin [01:52.86]And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn [01:55.04]And there's Adam Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald [01:56.59]Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World [01:59.27]Finbarr Charlie and Jim Hand [02:01.09]And they drinkin' pints to bate the band [02:03.96] [02:05.59]Oh Lisdoonvarn [02:10.02]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [02:14.08]The multitudes they flocked in throngs [02:16.45]To hear the music and the songs [02:18.69]Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans [02:20.45]With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans [02:22.88]Mighty craic Loads of frolics [02:27.68]Pioneers and alcoholics [02:29.74]PLAC SPUC and the FCA [02:31.99]Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA [02:34.11]Hairy chests and milk-white thighs [02:36.11]Mickey dodgers in disguise [02:38.18]Mc Graths O'Briens Pippins Coxs [02:40.86]Massage parlours in horse boxes [02:42.55]There's amhráns bodhráns amadáns [02:45.92]Arab sheiks Hindu Sikhs Jesus freaks [02:52.50]RTE are makin' tapes takin' breaks and throwin' shapes [02:55.18]This is heaven this is hell [02:58.18]Who cares Who can tell [02:59.42] [02:59.93]Oh Lisdoonvarn [03:00.49]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [03:06.73]A 747 for Jackson Browne [03:08.35]They had to build a special runway just to get him down [03:11.03]Before the Chieftains could start to play [03:12.97]Seven creamy pints came out on a tray [03:15.34]Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan [03:17.52]Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin' [03:19.58]Clannad were playin' "Harry's Game" [03:21.02]Christy was singin' "Nancy Spain" [03:23.26]Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields [03:25.89]Together singin' "The Four Green Fields" [03:27.82]Van the Man and Emmy Lou [03:30.19]Moving Hearts and Planxty too [03:32.25]Oh Lisdoonvarn [03:36.19]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [03:41.18]Everybody needs a break [03:42.86]Climb a mountain or jump in a lake [03:45.04]Sean Doherty goes to the Rose of Tralee [03:48.02]Oliver J Flanagan goes swimming in the Holy Sea [03:51.14]But I like the music and the open air [03:53.57]So every Summer I go to Clare [03:55.51]Coz Woodstock Knock nor the Feast of Cana [03:57.57]Can hold a match to Lisdoonvarna [03:59.63]Oh Lisdoonvarn [04:03.87]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [04:07.49]Oh Lisdoonvarn [04:12.36]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [04:16.72]Oh Lisdoonvarn [04:20.89]Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna