Matty-Christy Moore

[ti:Matty] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Ordinary Man] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Matty - Christy Moore [00:13.20]Matty went out on a frozen night [00:15.69]Making heading for the pub his shoulders hunched up tight [00:18.63]His head down on the railroad track [00:21.37]And his old cow Delia sad lowin' him back [00:25.11] [00:25.68]He met with a dark and troubled man [00:28.49]As he passed him by called back at him [00:31.49]Hey Matty can't you see what's become of me [00:34.23]In this country of the blind [00:37.16]The house I've left is dead to me [00:41.34]To me rhyming and my poetry [00:44.40]All I've got is the beat of the stagger [00:47.20]Heading down the Curragh Line [00:50.27] [00:51.53]But Matty passed on as quick as he could [00:54.22]He couldn't stand such a crooked man sober [00:57.15]All he wanted was the lights of the bar [00:59.96]The Nightingale and the Wild Rover [01:03.32] [01:04.39]When he came in [01:05.76]They were sayin he was back [01:07.32]OH did Delia drive you out [01:08.69]With your spoutin' and your swearin' [01:10.07]We don't want to hear about Bunker Hayden [01:13.00]Maybe you'll sing us the Girls of Kinkane [01:20.65] [01:33.20]The fear an ti eyed him steadily [01:35.26] [01:36.07]As he handed him a pint of porter [01:38.82]You must have seen the bishop's ghost tonight [01:41.50]To put the dry look back in your eye [01:45.12] [01:45.87]But Matty would not be taken in [01:47.87] [01:48.73]By their jibin' and their regalin' [01:51.67]He found himself a fresh blown crew [01:54.29]And fell in with their sportin' and their bailin' [01:57.85] [01:58.66]As he was going home in that very same spot [02:01.53]He met his dark familiar [02:05.90]He seen him comin' back down the line [02:08.64]And he was bright and strange and fine [02:12.88]As he passed him by Matty threw out his arms [02:16.45]Trying to grab hold of his likeness [02:18.82]In the morning they found his frozen corpse [02:21.63]And the butt of Curragh Line [02:25.44] [02:26.00]And at the wake [02:27.12]They were lashin' down [02:28.93]The drops of brandy [02:32.06]The old fashioned habit [02:34.14]In the church they were lashin' down pounds and fivers [02:36.19]So Matty would be fine in the old by and by