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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G D Em C
It was on one bright March morning
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I bid New Orleans adieu
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And I took the road to Jackson town
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My fortune to renew
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I cursed all foreign money
G D C
No credit could I gain
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Which filled my heart with longing for
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The lakes of Pontchartrain
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I stepped on board of a railroad car
G D G
Beneath the morning sun
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And I rode the rods till evening
G D C
And I laid me down again
G D Em C
All strangers there no friends to me
G D C
Til a dark girl towards me came
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And I fell in love with a Creole girl
G D G
By the lakes of Pontchartrain
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I said 'My pretty Creole girl
G D G
My money here's no good
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And if it weren't for the alligators
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I would sleep out in the wood'
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You're welcome here kind stranger
G D C
Our house is very plain
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And we never turned a stranger out
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On the lakes of Pontchartrain'
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She took me into her mammy's house
G D G
And treated me right well
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The hair upon her shoulders
G D C
In jet black ringlets fell
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To try to paint her beauty
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I'm sure would be in vain
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So handsome was my Creole girl
G D G
By the lakes of Pontchartrain
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I asked her would she marry me
G D G
She said 'This could never be'
G D Em C
For she had got a lover
G D C
And he was far at sea
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She said that she would wait for him
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And true she would remain
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Til he returned to his Creole girl
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On the lakes of Pontchartrain
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So fare thee well my Creole girl
G D G
I never may see you more
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But I'll never forget your kindness
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In the cottage by the shore
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And at each social gathering
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A flowing glass I'll drain
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And I'll drink a health to my Creole girl
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By the lakes of Pontchartrain
Chuck Girard
Chuck Ragan
Chule Von Wernic (...)
Chumbawamba
Chumbawumba