Lyrics




He was Lawless by name and lawless by nature, trouble right from the start.
Hard as nails running wild thru the streets he was breaking his poor mother's heart.
Nature played a trick on Lawless and the humour of nature is cruel.
He grew up as we all had expected into a dangerous fool
He was a hard man a man for all seasons always out for a fight
He could'nt hold drink but still he'd get plastered in Clarkes every saturday night
Hed strip of his vest, challenge the best 'til the guards were called to come fast
They'd lock him away for the rest of the day leave him out sunday morning for mass
One night he went down to the Ringsend regatta where he met up with the bould Dolly Platts
She was'nt exactly what you'd call beauty but she was the belle of our flats
A whilwind romance and Dolly took a flier with Lawless she would settle down
Twas pure coincidence 3 months before there was a Yankee destroyer in town
The couple were blessed with one of Gods miracles before 6 months had elapsed
Dolly gave birth to a 9 pound black baby and Lawless was fit to collapse
She swore she'd never been touched by another and Lawless took her at her word
And the neighbours exclaimed"he's the spit of his father-the cuckoo is a wonderful bird
Lawless stayed in and looked after his baby while Dolly went out for the night
The auld gossips all say she was free in her ways and their evil rumours ran rife
When Lawless heard this he waited for Dolly on the bridge where the river runs low
No-one will ever know what happened but Dolly drowned in The Dodder below.
Some say he is crazy, more say he's evil and everyone says that he's mad.
No one will defend him, he was no angel, but I'll you he was'nt all bad.
They've locked him away for the rest of his natural never again will he see.
Down the back of Ringsend theres a lonely child playin where the Liffey flows into the sea.



Writer(s): Michael John Curry


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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