Biography:
Christy Moore, a native of Co. Kildare, Ireland, found fame as a member of the legendary tradition folk band Planxty. Since then he has carved out his own career as a consummate solo performer. In the 1980s Christy teamed up with Donal Lunny to form the innovative Moving Hearts.
Christy Moore started in the music business in the mid-sixties, when his life as a bank clerk was interrupted by a bank strike, and he moved to England. There he became involved in the folk music scene at the time
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Other songs:
- Natives
- Spancil Hill
- The Lakes Of Pontchartrain
- A Pair Of Brown Eyes
- Aisling
- All I Remember
- Allende
- Among The Wicklow Hills
- Apair Of Brown Eyes
- Arthur Macbride
- As I Roved Out
- Back Home In Derry
- Barrowland
- Biko Drum
- Black Is The Colour
- Black Jack County Chain
- Bright Blue Rose
- Casey
- City Of Chicago
- Cliffs Of Dooneen
- Continental Ceili
- Cry Like A Man
- Delirium Tremens
- Does This Train Stop On Merseyside
- Dunnes Stores
- El Salvador
- Fairytale Of New York
- Faithful Departed
- Follow Me Up To Carlow
- Galtee Mountain Boy
- Go Move Shift
- Hey Sandy
- Irish Ways And Irish Laws
- John Odreams
- Johnny Dont Go To Ballincollig
- Joxer Goes To Stuttgart
- Lakes Of Pontchartrain
- Lisdoonvarna And Ill Tell Me Ma
- Little Musgrave
- Mary From Dungloe
- Matty
- Missing You
- Motherland
- My Little Honda 50
- Nancy Spain
- No Time For Love
- North And South Of The River
- On Morecambe Bay
- One Last Cold Kiss
- Only Our Rivers Run Free
- Ordinary Man
- Quiet Desperation
- Reel In The Flickering Light
- Ride On
- Scapegoats
- Smoke And Strong Whiskey
- So Do I
- St Brendans Voyage
- The Boy From Tamlaghduff
- The Contender
- The Craic Was Ninety In The Isle Of Man
- The Curragh Of Kildare
- The Dying Soldier
- The Mad Lady And Me
- The Night Visit
- The Time Has Come
- The Two Conneeleys
- The Voyage
- They Never Came Home
- Tyrone Boys
- Veronica
- Viva La Quinta Brigada
- Weekend In Amsterdam
- Welcome To The Cabaret
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C
How's it goin' there everybody
From Cork, New York, Dundalk, Gortahork and Glenamaddy
D
Here we are in the County Clare
Am C
It's a long, long way from here to there
D
the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher
C
The Tulla and the Kilfenora
D
Micho Russell, Doctor Bill
C
Willie Clancy, Noel Hill
D
Flutes and fiddles everywhere
C
If it's music you want
D
You should go to Clare
[Chorus]
G C
Oh, Lisdoonvarna
G C
Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna!
D
I always leave on a Thursday night
C
With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight
D
I like to hit Lisdoon
C
In around Friday afternoon
D
This gives me time to get me tent up and my gear together
C
I don't need to worry about the weather
D
Ramble in for a pint of stout
C
You'd never know who'd be hangin' about!
D
There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin
C
And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn
D
And there's Adam, Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald
C
Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World
D
Finbarr, Charlie and Jim Hand
C
And they drinkin' pints to bate the band
D
Why wouldnt they theyre getting it for nothing!
[Chorus]
D
The multitudes, they flocked in throngs
C
To hear the music and the songs
D
Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans
C
With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans
D C
Theres mighty craic. Loads of frolics
D
Pioneers and alcoholics
C
PLAC, SPUC and the FCA
D
Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA
C
Hairy chests and milk-white thighs
D
Mickey dodgers in disguise
C
Mc Graths, O'Briens, Pippins, Coxs
D
Massage parlours in horse boxes
C D
The BBC are makin' tapes, takin' breaks and throwin shapes
C
There's amhráns, bodhráns, amadáns
D
Hairy freaks, Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs, Jesus freaks
C
This is heaven, this is hell
D
Who cares? Who can tell?
C
(Anyone for the last few Choc Ices, now?)
[Chorus]
D
A 747 for Jackson Browne
C
They had to build a special runway just to get him down
D
Before the Chieftains could start to play
C
Six creamy pints, 20 Majors and a box of matches came out on a tray
D
Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan
C
Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin'
D
Clannad were playin' "Harry's Game"
C
Christy was singin' "Nancy Spain"
D
Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields
C
Together singin' "The Four Green Fields"
D
Van the Man and Emmy Lou
C
Moving Hearts and Planxty too!
[Chorus]
C
I'll tell me ma when I come home
G C
the boys won't leave the girls alone
C
they pull me hair and stole my comb
G C
well that's alright till I come home
C F
She is handsome she is pretty
C G
she's the belle of Belfast city
C F
she's a courtin' one two three
C G C
please won't you tell me who is she
How's it goin' there everybody
From Cork, New York, Dundalk, Gortahork and Glenamaddy
D
Here we are in the County Clare
Am C
It's a long, long way from here to there
D
the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher
C
The Tulla and the Kilfenora
D
Micho Russell, Doctor Bill
C
Willie Clancy, Noel Hill
D
Flutes and fiddles everywhere
C
If it's music you want
D
You should go to Clare
[Chorus]
G C
Oh, Lisdoonvarna
G C
Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna!
D
I always leave on a Thursday night
C
With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight
D
I like to hit Lisdoon
C
In around Friday afternoon
D
This gives me time to get me tent up and my gear together
C
I don't need to worry about the weather
D
Ramble in for a pint of stout
C
You'd never know who'd be hangin' about!
D
There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin
C
And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn
D
And there's Adam, Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald
C
Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World
D
Finbarr, Charlie and Jim Hand
C
And they drinkin' pints to bate the band
D
Why wouldnt they theyre getting it for nothing!
[Chorus]
D
The multitudes, they flocked in throngs
C
To hear the music and the songs
D
Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans
C
With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans
D C
Theres mighty craic. Loads of frolics
D
Pioneers and alcoholics
C
PLAC, SPUC and the FCA
D
Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA
C
Hairy chests and milk-white thighs
D
Mickey dodgers in disguise
C
Mc Graths, O'Briens, Pippins, Coxs
D
Massage parlours in horse boxes
C D
The BBC are makin' tapes, takin' breaks and throwin shapes
C
There's amhráns, bodhráns, amadáns
D
Hairy freaks, Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs, Jesus freaks
C
This is heaven, this is hell
D
Who cares? Who can tell?
C
(Anyone for the last few Choc Ices, now?)
[Chorus]
D
A 747 for Jackson Browne
C
They had to build a special runway just to get him down
D
Before the Chieftains could start to play
C
Six creamy pints, 20 Majors and a box of matches came out on a tray
D
Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan
C
Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin'
D
Clannad were playin' "Harry's Game"
C
Christy was singin' "Nancy Spain"
D
Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields
C
Together singin' "The Four Green Fields"
D
Van the Man and Emmy Lou
C
Moving Hearts and Planxty too!
[Chorus]
C
I'll tell me ma when I come home
G C
the boys won't leave the girls alone
C
they pull me hair and stole my comb
G C
well that's alright till I come home
C F
She is handsome she is pretty
C G
she's the belle of Belfast city
C F
she's a courtin' one two three
C G C
please won't you tell me who is she
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