Lyrics Matty - Christy Moore
Matty
went
out
on
a
frozen
night
Making
for
the
pub,
shoulders
hunched
up
tight
His
head
down
on
the
railroad
track
His
old
cow
Delia
sad,
lowin'
him
back
He
met
with
a
dark
and
a
troubled
man
As
he
passed
him
by,
called
back
at
him
"Matty
can't
you
see
what's
become
of
me
In
this
country
of
the
blind?"
The
house
I've
left
is
dead
to
me
To
me
rhyming
and
me
poetry
All
I've
got
is
the
beat
of
the
stagger
As
I'm
heading
down
the
Curragh
Line
Matty
passed
on
as
quick
as
he
could
Couldn't
stand
such
a
crooked
man
sober
All
he
wanted
was
the
lights
of
the
bar
In
the
Nightingale
and
the
Wild
Rover
Oh,
when
he
came
in
They
were
sayin',
"Look
he's
back
Oh,
did
Delia
drive
you
out
With
your
spoutin'
and
your
swearin'?
We
don't
want
to
hear
about
the
Bunker
Hayden
Maybe
you'll
sing
us
the
Girls
of
Kinkane"
The
fear
an
tí
eyed
him
steadily
He
handed
him
a
pint
of
porter
Sayin',
"You
musta
seen
the
bishop's
ghost
tonight
To
put
the
dry
look
back
in
your
eye"
Ah,
but
Matty
would
not
be
taken
in
By
their
jibin'
and
their
regalin'
He
found
himself
a
fresh
blown
crew
And
fell
in
with
their
sportin'
and
their
bailin'
As
he
was
going
home,
in
the
very
same
spot
He
met
with
his
dark
familiar
He
seen
him
comin'
back
down
the
line
And
he
was
bright
and
strange
and
fine
As
he
passed
him
by
Matty
threw
out
his
arms
Tried
to
grab
hold
of
his
likeness
In
the
morning
all
we
found
was
his
frozen
corpse
At
the
butt
of
the
Curragh
Line
At
the
wake
they
were
lashin'
out
The
drops
of
brandy,
the
ould
fashioned
habit
In
the
church,
lashin'
down
pounds
and
fivers
So
Matty
would
be
fine
in
the
old
by
and
by
Matty
went
out
on
a
frozen
night
Making
for
the
pub,
shoulders
hunched
up
tight
In
the
morning
all
we
found
was
his
frozen
corpse
At
the
butt
of
the
Curragh
Line
At
the
wake
they
were
lashin'
out
The
drops
of
brandy,
the
ould
fashioned
habit
In
the
church,
they
were
lashin'
down
pounds
and
fivers
So
Matty
would
be
fine
in
the
old
by
and
by
1 Magic Nights in the Lobby Bar
2 Matty
3 Sonny's Dream
4 Ringing That Bell
5 A Pair of Brown Eyes
6 Sail on Jimmy (aka Irish Pagan Ritual)
7 Burning Times
8 The Tuam Beat
9 Back Home in Derry
10 Rosalita and Jack Campbell
11 Duffy's Cut
12 Motherland
13 Spancilhill
14 Before the Deluge
15 The Two Conneeleys
16 Missing You
17 Cry like a Man
18 The Reel in the Flickering Light
19 Veronica
20 Johnny Jump Up
21 Inchicore Wake
22 Tippin' It up to Nancy
23 Only Our Rivers Run Free
24 Hurt
25 The Well Below the Valley
26 Mandolin Mountain
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