I wrote me a letter to Syracuse, it was a letter full of lies I told them that we were doing fine, very much to their surprise For how were they to know that he...

One summer evening drunk as hell I sat there nearly lifeless. An old man in the corner sang, Where the water lilies grow. On the jukebox Johnny sang, About a th...

See the bright new moon is rising, Above the land of black and green Hear the rebels voices calling, I will not die 'till you bury me The aunt upstairs in the ...

He's twenty-five; he's sick and tired, It's time to try the other side, The B&I to paradise, To sergeants and their men. He's never been to Dun Na Ri, Combed t...

The autumn evenings filled with copper shades I see the birds' neck in the frame A figure walks into the sunset Someone goes past suspended from the sky Takes ...

Everybody knew, nobody said. A week ago last Tuesday. She was just fifteen years. When she reached her full term. She went to a grotto. Just a field, In The Mid...

Oh have you been to Avondale and lingered in her lovely vale Where tall trees whisper low the tale of avondale's proud eagle Where pride and ancient glory fade ...

In 1803 we sailed out to sea Out from the sweet town of Derry For Australia bound if we didn't all drown And the marks of our fetters we carried In our rusty ir...

I was 18 when I came to town They called it the summer of love Burning babies, burning flags The hawks against the doves I took a job at the steaming way Down ...

the black and tans from London came to shoot the people down they thought the IRA was dead in dear old Belfast town those cruel English soldiers they were serio...

And they went home on an Easter road On a silent night tryin' not to show Who goes where and who goes when Thinkin' some day soon they'll get it back again Fro...

Black is the colour of my true love's hair Her lips are like some roses fair She has the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands And I love the ground whereon she...

I was sittin' beside the road in Black Jack County. Not knowing that the Sheriff paid a bounty, For men like me that hadn't got a penny to their name. So he loc...

Bridget O'Reilly was a fine looking girl Well, her skin was like ivory and her teeth shone like pearls The fellas all chased her in vain til one day She went an...

I skimmed across black water, without once submerging Onto the banks of an urban morning That hungers the first light, much much more Than mountains ever do. A...

One summer evening drunk as hell, I sat there nearly lifeless. An old man in the corner sang, Where the water lilies grow. On the jukebox Johnny sang, About a t...

In the cold of the evening, they used to gather Neath the stars in the meadow, circled near the old oak tree At the times appointed by the seasons Of the earth,...

To the City of Chicago, As the evening shadows fall, There are people dreaming, Of the hills of Donegal Eighteen forty seven, Was the year it all began, Deadly...

You may travel far far from your own native home Far away oer the mountains far away oer the foam But of all the fine places that I've ever seen, There's none t...

My cap is frozen to my head My heart is like a lump of lead My shoes are frozen to my feet With standing at your window Let me in the soldier cried Cold blow t...

The good ship Granma lies at anchor in the harbour Waiting for the evening tide to rise and bring high water. Bound for Cuba she must go across the Gulf of Mexi...

Cry Like A Man Dan Penn Take a look around you,how much longer can you live this way trash on the floor from weeks before,just gets deeper by the day cant let ...

I dreamt a dream the other night I couldn't sleep a wink The rats were tryin' to count the sheep and I was off the drink There were footsteps in the parlour and...

Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work Oh don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work Or y...

Close your eyes and come with me back to 1984 We'll take a walk down Henry Street to Dunnes department store. The supermarket's busy and the registers make a di...

A girl cries in the early morning Woken by the sound of a gun She knows somewhere somebody's dying Beneath the rising sun Outside the window of her cabaña The ...

It was Christmas Eve babe in the drunk tank An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away...

It was a Friday in April 1986, The day that the nightmare began, When the dust it rained down on our buildings and streets, And entered our bedrooms at noon, To...

A young man fell in love with truth In searching th wide world for her He found her in the small house In the clearing In the forest She was old and she was sto...

Every time I go to London I think about Giuseppe Conlon Who left his home in Belfast And travelled over to his son As he said goodbye to Sarah And took the boat...

Born in the middle of the afternoon In a horsedrawn carriage on the old A5 The big twelve wheeler shook my bed, "You can't stay here" the policeman said. CHORU...

As I was climbing into bed at my Granny's side I looked out the window the Brits they had arrived The house was surrounded they smashed in the front door in The...

You're in the pub at half past ten, the money for the cure all spent again, Trying to figure out who's carrying and where they'll be that day Forget about the n...

From Rotherhithe in London to Bethnal by the Green Paddy worked the buildings with the pick and shovel squad Friday nights he'd always end up drinking with the ...

They dropped the bomb in '45 to end the world war, No-one had ever seen such a terrible[ sight before, The world looked on with eyes wide to see where it might ...

In Dublin City in 1914 the boss was rich and the poor were slaves The women working and the children hungry then on came Larkin like a mighty wave The workers c...

The January man he goes around in woolen coat and boots of leather The February man still shakes the snow from off his clothes and blows his hands The man of Ma...

Joe McCann Eamon O'Doherty Come all of you fine people wherever you may be I'll sing of a brave Belfast man Who scorned Britain's might though they'd shoot him ...

It was in the year of eighty-eight in the lovely month of June When the gadflies were swarmin', dogs howlin' at the moon With rosary beads and sandwiches for St...

It was one fine March morning, I bid New Orleans Adieu And I took the road to Jackson Town, my fortune to renew I cursed all foreign money, no credit could I ga...

He was Lawless by name, Lawless by nature, He was trouble right from the start. Hard as nails, runnin' wild through the streets He was breakin' his poor mother'...

It fell upon a holy day as many in the year Musgrave to the church did go to see fine ladies there some were dressed in velvet red and some in velvet grey th...

(Composed by Christy Hennessy) I'm goin' to saddle up me old grey mare, I'm goin' to ride through the night, Without a worry or a care I'm a messenger boy, bri...

Noel Brazil First Days in the loft I thought I might live,new faces new streets. No cash in the hand was making me thing,what now? whats next? Thats not to say ...

Chorus: Oh I'm missing you I'd give all for the price of a flight Oh I'm missing you under Piccadilly's neon In nineteen hundred and eighty six There's not muc...

I heard an angry voice behind a drystone wall At a beauty spot on out by Carron; "Go on, Get back to Dublin. You hippies don't belong here. Traipsin' round the ...

She wears mystic lipstick, she wears stones and bones, She tells myth and legend, she sings rock and roll. She wears chains of bondage, she wears wings of hope,...

Of all the stars that ever shone Not one does twinkle like your pale blue eyes Like golden corn at harvest time your hair Sailing in my boat the wind Gently blo...

For all of our languages we can't communicate For all of our native tongues we're all natives here Sons of their fathers' dream the same dream The sound of for...

You call it the law, we call it apartheid, internment, conscription, partition and silence. It's the law that they make to keep you and me where they think we b...

I want to reach out over the lough And feel your hand across the water Walk with you along an unapproved road Not looking over my shoulder I want to see I want ...

A list of exports from Cork Harbour On a single day -- The fourteenth of September, Eighteen Forty-Seven -- Ran as follows: 147 barrels of pork, 986 casks of h...

When apples still grow in November When Blossoms still bloom from each tree When leaves are still green in December It's then that our land will be free I wande...

I'm an ordinary man, nothin' special nothin' grand, I've had to work for everything I own, Well I never asked for a lot, I was happy with what I got, Enough to ...

My soul is in the mountains My heart is in the land I'm lost here in the city There's so much I don't understand There's quiet desperation comin' over me Comin...

When first from boyhood I came to a man To ramble the nation through soon I began Oh the ramblin' thought that came into me mind So they christened me Ramblin' ...

True you ride the finest horse I have ever seen Standing sixteen, one or two, with eyes wild and green And you ride the horse so well, hands light to the touch ...

Listen for a while And I'll tell you the story of How I fell in love with The Rose Of Tralee It was about five o'clock in the morning I was only after gettin' ...

Oh say there, did you here the news? Sacco worked at trimming shoes. Vanzetti was a travelling man, pushed his cart round with his hand CHORUS Two good men's...

Who are they to decide what we should hear? Who are they to decide what we should see? What do they think we can't comprehend here? What do they fear that our r...

He sat on the corner of Bevington Bush, astride an old packing case, And the dolls on the end of the plank went dancing, as he crooned with a smile on his face....

Remember when you were young You shone like the sun Shine on you crazy diamond Now there's a look in your eyes Like black holes in the sky Shine on you crazy di...

Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers Whose husbands and fathers alike Drink black beer in the same public houses Smelling of smoke and strong wh...

This is the day the fisherman likes And so do I When the rain puts a shine on the chestnut spikes Hear the curlews cry The nightingale sings her best We'll drin...

I wish I had someone to love me, Someone to call me his own, Someone to sleep with me nightly, I weary of sleeping alone. Meet me tonight in the moonlight, Meet...

Sonny don't go away I'm here all alone Your daddy's a sailor never comes home Nights are so long silence goes on I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong S...

A boat sailed out of Brandon in the year of 501 'Twas a damp and dirty mornin' Brendan's voyage it bega Tired of thinnin' turnips and cuttin' curley kale When h...

Have you seen the old man in the closed down market Kicking up the papers with his worn out shoes In his eyes you see no pride, hand held loosely at his side Ye...

Down by O'Connell street one summers evening I meet a young woman, it was our first meeting Crossed over the bridge and down by the river By the strawberry beds...

A hungry feeling came o` er me stealing and the mice were sqealing in my prison cell And the auld triangle went jingle jangle along the banks of the Royal Canal...

Theres Bethlem and Cheltenham and Lourdes and Limerick Junction The trip to Mejagori come up for the extra motion Good people climb Croagh Patrick with serenity...

well weren't we the rare oul stock spent the evenin' gettin' locked up in the ace o' hearts where the high stools were engaging over the butt bridge, down by th...

As I roved out one evening fair It bein' the summertime to take the air I spied a sailor and a lady gay And I stood to listen And I stood to listen to hear what...

The First Time ever I saw your face I Thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave To the dark and the endless sky, my love....

I am a roving hackler lad that loves the shamrock shore, Belov'd and well-respected by my neighbors one and all On St. Patrick's day I loved to stray round Lave...

It was one fine March morning, I bid New Orleans adieu And I took the road to Jacksontown, and my fortune to renew I cursed all foreign money, no credit could I...

The lark in the morning she rises off her nest She goes off in the air with the dew all on her breast And like the jolly ploughboy she whistles and she sings Sh...

Who are you, me pretty fair maid Who are you, me honey? Who are you, me pretty fair maid Who are you, me honey? She answered me modestly, "Well I am me mammy's ...

How many more must die now how many must we lose Before the island people their own destiny can choose From immortal Robert Emmet to Bobby Sands MP Who was give...

The Reel in the Flickering Light by Christy Moore As I was walking home one evenin' I know this takes some believin' I met a group of creatures With the strange...

Have you seen the old man in the closed down market Kicking up the papers with his worn out shoes In his eyes you see no pride, hand held loosely at his side Ye...

The time has come to part, my love, I must go away I leave you now, my darling girl, No longer can I stay. My heart like yours is breaking Together we'll prove...

I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail For the hearts treasure, together we...

St. Valentine's day comes around once a year, All our thought turn to love as the day it draws near, When sweethearts and darlings, husbands and wives, Pledge l...

Tim Evans was a prisoner down in his prison cell And those who read about his crime condemned his soul to hell Go down you murderers go down For the killing o...

In the broad daylight of a Summer's day, On the Cork to Dublin motorway. Suddenly the singing birds, Were startled in their song. In the quiet of that moment, O...

I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail For the hearts treasure, together we...

When we got our redundancy, myself and the lads went on the spree A brand new passport in my hand as we took off for The Netherland Myself and Dinny and O'Dwyer...

And there was an old woman and she lived in the woods A weila weila waila There was an old woman and she lived in the woods Down by the River Saile She had a b...

How's it going everybody now you're very welcome to this evening's Cabaret, I'd like to thank you for the trouble, you've been taking to come and hear me play L...

As I was going over the far famed Kerry Mountains I met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting I first produced my pistol and I then produced my rap...