Oh it's midnight on the Bowery and your feet are soakin' wet And you've drank your last brass farthin' You'd sell your soul for a cigarette And the sounds from ...

open up the door, she's standin' there with the smile in her eyes but the grey in her hair betrays the fact you strayed far from home with your drinkin', your s...

I stole some butter to put on my bread A crime against God, king and parliament No fancy lawyer to defend my case So I was sentenced at the Mayo Assizes Seven ...

Everything is still Not a chicken not a body Just an awful sickenin' silence roarin' in my ears And the fog of death deepens and lies upon the land An ould wan ...

mr frankie diamond was my best friend we were partners in a business down on c & 7th nothin' ever got this good brother down he was a real live wire in an elect...

Carlita is waiting down on C & 9th In mantilla and lace And her lover's knife Cries out for revenge But she is silent like a stone And beautiful in her widow's ...

My name is Bobby Sands, MP Born in the city of Belfast Divided by religion I grew up fast I was stabbed and I was spat upon My family run out of its home There...

Standing in your hallway Kiss your angel hair Hear your old grandmother Recite her immigrant prayer If she knew what you had to do She'd probably kill you first...

Josie, are you listenin', can you pull the veil apart Is the circle still unbroken, can you touch my serpent heart Is the light still in your window, the latch ...

I remember you back in 1992 When they were putting us down Trying to tramp us into the ground You exploded like a flame in the night With a righteous indignatio...

one bright and sunny mornin' down on avenue as i was returnin' home from a night of debauchery i met me landlord boris, "yo," sez he, "would ya ever go over to ...

Danny came over to old New York From Bandon town in the county Cork He got a room on the avenue in Woodside Queens And a job off the books doin' demolition He w...

born on a black monday, me mother screamin' curses me ould lad in the pub losin' money on the horses me granny kicked in the door, said "get a job you bastard" ...

I remember your eyes from the 12th of July When the sirens were screamin' and the flames lit the sky And you held me so tight, thought you'd never let go 'Til t...

Fatima rises at dawn The hunger like a flame inside her It's the feast of Ramadan And her father's been praying for hours He wears his disapproval In a silence,...

When first I came to New York town, my eyes were all aglow To see the lights on Broadway, the scrapers rimmed with snow I fell in with some Belfast boys, I whil...

darlin, darlin' you've put up with so much betrayed by your leaders, abandoned by your church i've watched you suffer, now you're older than your years but you ...

D'ya remember back in the Five Points When the fire was in the air And the streets were hot as the hob of hell And the bodies was everywhere Then ould Johnny ju...

As I roved out one May morning On down by old Times Square I met a sportin' lady Sweet Nancy was her name She said "Me dearest darlin' You're so young and you s...

Bridie was teachin' out in Carysfort I was workin' in the bank 2 paycheques every Friday And a Morris Minor out the back But I was mad for jigs and reels Drinki...

(Irish lyrics) Mo chreach ghéarchúiseach Ná rabhas ar do chúlaibh nuair lámhadh an púdar, go ngeobhainn é im chom dheas nó i mbinn mo ghúna, is go léigfinn cea...

Six months out on the road Don't know if I'm ever goin' home Out there in the middle of America Out of my head, feelin' hysterical Wishin' that I was back in Ne...

Now that she's so far away from her dear old hills of Donegal I wonder does she ever think of me at all On that wet Monday I drove her down to Shannon We drank ...

Marchin' down O'Connell Street with the Starry Plough on high There goes the Citizen Army with their fists raised in the sky Leading them is a mighty man with a...

Oh, it's 6 o'clock and it's time to rock And me head is beatin' like a drum In the cold grey light, ah I feel like shite And I can't remember last night's fun T...

Chuckie said "I don't know what's goin' on I'm down on my knees and I'm ah uh oh losin' it Been up and down this New York town Lookin' for a break, just a fair ...

Oh Maria, I'm so sorry I wrecked your wedding You've just gotta believe me But just the thought of you takin' your clothes off for that jerk Oh, it got me drink...

Joined the service out of school in the year of '69 When the Doors were ridin' on the storm, Hendrix was alive And before I could blink an eye, I was sent to Vi...

In New York City I made my home I loved the streets, the very stones Cared for my comrades, cherished my friends Loved all beginnings, had no time for ends A c...

Too much pain, too much sorrow Eyes bone dry, get on with our tomorrows I wake up in a pool of tears and sweat Cryin' for some friends I ain't never even met Th...

Got into town on a Saturday night With a Fender guitar and I checked out the sights And I drank my way down to the Lower East Side 'Coz I was nuts about Thunder...

Maureen got married to a sanitation worker She's livin' out in Brooklyn with her mother in law And when her old man's sleepin' Maureen comes creepin' down to th...

on the banks of the hudson, my love and i lay down just above 42nd street, while the rain was pouring down when i covered her with kisses, the sparks lit up her...

Get off the plane at Kennedy Got a dream in your heart Though it's down in your boots Got a hundred quid in your pocket And a couple of addresses In Woodside an...

Oh Mary Mary, I think I'm crackin' up Everthing is fallin' apart My arms are empty and you have just put A fourty-five slug through my heart I've been riding th...

You can wreck my name, vilify me, stretch me on the rack But I won't bow down to any man, be he white or be he black Take away my passport, refuse to let me tra...

the strobe was pulsin' in the afterhours the booze was flowin' free when i first saw you across that room on down by houston street you were wrapped around a wi...

I got a job in a band called Black 47 I was doin' nothin' special after 11 Oh we learned some tunes and wrote some songs And we bought ourselves a drum machine ...

Hey Rory, you're off to London Playin' the blues with a band called Taste Gonna hit the big time? You better - you're the best On your night you could even leav...

Oh me name it is Sam Hall - chimney sweep chimney sweep Oh me name it is Sam Hall - chimney sweep Oh me name it is Sam Hall and I hate you one and all And me ne...

I came to this country an innocent boy From the green fields of Galway When the hunger was clawin' at me Came for redemption, respect and regard All I got was n...

Your old man, he's in Homicide - NYPD He looks at me suspiciously Your momma she's a psychiatric nurse in the city Works in Bellevue and I look kinda familiar? ...

on the banks of the hudson, my love and i lay down just above 42nd street, while the rain was pouring down when i covered her with kisses, the sparks lit up her...

Mo chara is mo lao thu! (My friend and my calf) Is aisling trí néallaibh (A vision in dream) Do deineadh aréir dom (Was revealed to me last night) IgCorcaigh go...

saw something in the paper just the other day, it was all about a band and the music that they play black 47 advocates violence, musical guerillas in their terr...

Wait until dawn The streets will be cool and clean again Then it's time to go downstairs And meet the man He'll be sittin' in a limo with a gun in his hand You'...

The sun was settin' the rocks on fire The fields blisterin' with the heat When the militia came marchin' through our town Knockin' sparks off the little streets...

Paddy came down to Voodoo City Met a lady on Bourbon Street She was dark, she was beautiful Swept that boy right off his feet Runnin' from the man in New York C...

i never figured it would end up this way as i lay on the ground, and silently prayed for god's intervention, my soul to save who the hell is the saint of lost c...

It's Saturday night on the Lower East Side I'm sittin' here contemplatin' suicide I just got mugged down in Tompkins Square When a skinny-assed junkie stuck a b...

Here I go out to sea again The sunshine fills my hair And dreams hang in the air Gulls in the sky and in my blue eyes You know it feels unfair There's magic ev...