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

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




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