Lyrics Lawless - Christy Moore
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.
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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