Lyrics




Young people on the street they meet
Underneath the lamplight bright
Outside diamond jewellery windows
Dazzling their sight tonight
Anger in their blood it pounds
Echoes in a hollow sound
It all comes tumbling down
In Zurich
What the children learn at school
Is all that glitters must be gold
Those who don't accept this rule
Find themselves out in the cold
Send there by well-to-do
Beautiful people
Who don't have time for the likes of you
In Zurich
It all began one morning find
The government money came to town
A fortune went to the concert hall
Not one penny trickled down
To the youth center in the middle of town
They want to close it down
Don't want youngsters hangin' round
In Zurich
Suddenly a sparked light
Upon that well remembered night
In the flash with bricks and bottles
Came a most surprising sight
Fired by a smoldering heat
5.000 angry children meet
And break every window in that most beautiful street
In Zurich
Anarchy in streets of gold
Lights are flashing, sirens wail
Frightened eyes behind the windows
Watch young ones go to jail
Soldiers in well armed ranks
Behind water cannon tanks
With plastic bullets to protect the banks
Of Zurich
How can such trouble be?
Is this the writing on the wall?
The pillars of society
Make a very anxious call
Quietly the call for peace
Discipline to say the least
What we need is more police
In Zurich
From the gardens of Geneva
To the flowered streets of Amsterdam
Inside the walls of West Berlin
Trouble goes from hand to hand
Children in the cold
Bring anarchy to streets of gold
That's what I was told
In Zurich



Writer(s): Jim Page


Christy Moore - The Box Set: 1964 - 2004
Album The Box Set: 1964 - 2004
date of release
19-03-2004

1   Three Drunken Maidens
2   Yellow Triangle
3   Dunnes Stores
4   They Never Came Home
5   Nuke Power
6   Who Cares?
7   Mullaghmore
8   Hey! Ronnie Reagan
9   St. Patrick's Night in San Fernando
10   Tim Evans
11   Goose Green (Taking Tea with Pinochet)
12   In Zurich
13   The Powdered Milk Brigade
14   Folk Tale
15   The Two Conneeleys
16   Don't Forget Your Shovel
17   Quiet Desperation
18   January Man
19   Poor Old Earth
20   Tippin' It Up
21   Poitín
22   1945
23   Little Musgrave
24   Johnny Jump Up
25   Radcliffe Highway
26   John O'Dreams
27   Cold Blow
28   The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
29   El Salvador
30   Jack Doyle (Aka The Contender)
31   Joxer (Original)
32   Intro
33   Lawless
34   Different Love Song
35   Changes
36   Ballindine
37   Anne Lovett
38   Dalesman's Litany
39   Intro
40   Farewell to Pripchat
41   The Lakes of Pontcharttrain
42   Cricklewood
43   Strange Ways
44   Wise & Holy Woman
45   Veronica
46   Cry Like a Man
47   Viva la Quinte Brigada
48   The Auld Triangle
49   Intro
50   Brown Eyes (For Joe Shheran)
51   Johnny Connors
52   Lay with Me
53   This Is the Day
54   Among the Wicklow Hills
55   Aisling
56   Grey Lake of Loughrea
57   All I Remember
58   Someone to Love
59   Trip to Carnsore
60   Danny Boy (Derrylondon Air)
61   Ships in the Forest
62   100 Miles from Home
63   Intro
64   Smoke & Strong Whiskey
65   The Way Pierce Turner Sings
66   The Hamburg Medley
67   Tyrone Boys
68   Hey Paddy
69   On the Blanket
70   Southern Winds
71   Don't Hand Me Over
72   Shoot out the Streetlights
73   The Bridge at Killaloe (Scariff Martyrs)
74   North & South
75   At the G.P.O. 1980
76   90 Miles to Dublin
77   Wicklow Boy
78   Ballinamore
79   Rialto Derry January 1993
80   Armagh Women
81   On the Bridge
82   Scapegoats
83   "The Fouled the Ball Paddy"
84   No Time for Love
85   On a Single Day
86   Roots
87   The Old Man's Song
88   1913 Lockout
89   Seth Davy
90   The Bould Rake
91   Bridget's Pill
92   The Lark in the Morning
93   Come by the Hill
94   The Enniskillen Dragoon
95   Weela Waile
96   Whiskey in the Jar
97   Intro
98   Tribute to Ewan McColl
99   Finnegan's Wake
100   Down in the Valley
101   Paddy on the Road




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