The Ballad of Ruby Walsh-Christy Moore

[ti:] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Listen] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.40]The Ballad of Ruby Walsh - Christy Moore [00:01.18]Written by：Christy Moore [00:01.84] [00:05.59]There's bethlem and cheltenham and lourdes and limerick [00:09.10]Junction [00:09.44] [00:10.08]The trip to mejagori come up for the extra motion [00:14.11] [00:14.66]Good people climb croagh patrick with serenity on their [00:18.05]Faces [00:18.49] [00:19.30]But ruby walsh saved me life below at the galway races [00:24.15]Hay ruby hold her back give her the craic and up [00:27.64]She'll go [00:28.22] [00:32.04]They're under starters orders ted walsh is [00:35.50]Commentating [00:35.96] [00:36.63]Ruby's up on the favorite she'll take some beating [00:40.47] [00:41.06]Necks are strained eyes are trained there's fear upon [00:44.35]Their faces [00:44.91] [00:45.62]There's agony and ecstasy below at the galway races [00:49.45] [00:50.15]Ruby hold her back give her the craic and up she'll [00:54.24]Go [00:54.76] [00:55.87]It's there you'll see gentility and sheep dressed up as [01:00.01]Mutton [01:00.68]There's double barreled names with mulherns on old [01:03.77]Malodions [01:04.34] [01:05.20]The talk is all of tillage of silage and corn acre [01:08.94] [01:09.50]I fancy tracy piggot in the saddle in the enclosure [01:13.99]Ruby hold her back give her the craic and up she'll go [01:18.26] [01:21.86]Sir john mucksavage smith is there with smurfits and [01:25.32]O'reilly's [01:25.81] [01:26.44]The owners and the trainers the stable boys and [01:30.01]Jockeys [01:30.35] [01:30.90]With silk around their arses getting up on rich men's [01:34.75]Horses [01:35.26]The convention wives and daughters and marriages and [01:38.91]Divorces [01:39.35] [01:39.87]Hay ruby hold her back give her the craic and up [01:43.36]She'll go [01:44.16] [01:47.90]There's celtic helicopters land bank speculators [01:51.60] [01:52.56]Builders and developers crocodiles and alligators [01:55.84] [01:56.72]Soldiers of destiny their in the fields of frenzy [02:01.02]Their mouths wrapped round the lamb of god come back [02:05.15]For the gravy [02:06.43]Hay ruby hold her back give her the craic and up [02:09.18]She'll go [02:09.88] [02:11.48]Thursday is the ladies day and the women all look [02:14.93]Smashing [02:15.66]Their lashing on the lipstick philip tracys all the [02:19.10]Fashion [02:19.54] [02:20.17]You can see the liposuction the botox and ogmanation [02:23.28] [02:25.26]Brazilian haircuts the collonic irrigation [02:28.32] [02:29.02]Hay ruby hold her back give her the craic and up [02:32.64]She'll go [02:33.34] [02:34.90]And every one's out in salthill for the craic and for [02:38.09]The porter [02:38.50] [02:39.00]There's bookies making odds on two flies walking up the [02:42.44]Wall [02:42.92] [02:43.58]There's folk and trad karaoke and set dances [02:47.28] [02:47.88]While some of us who seen better days were looking to [02:51.03]Take our chances [02:52.29]Hay ruby hold her back give her the craic and up [02:56.05]She'll go [02:56.99] [03:00.19]Their galloping down the back straight he has her in [03:03.33]The canter [03:04.42]A look at her up the jumps be gad she's like a bally [03:07.57]Dancer [03:08.10] [03:08.69]Over the last she hits the front the other one's going [03:11.98]To pass her [03:13.14]Winner alright it's up kildare follow me up to carlow [03:17.41]Hay ruby hold her back give her the craic and up [03:20.89]She'll go [03:21.47] [03:25.04]Hay ruby hold her back give her the craic and up [03:28.25]She'll go [03:28.65]