Christy Moore - Mullaghmore Lyrics

Lyrics Mullaghmore - Christy Moore



I heard an angry voice behind a drystone wall
At a beauty spot on out by Carron;
"Go on, Get back to Dublin.
You hippies don't belong here.
Traipsin' round the Burren
Never spendin' very long here."
And the only thing,
That I could think to say was;
We all belong here,
This is our native shore,
While I'm here I'd love to sing,
A song in praise of Mullaghmore.
I took a rocky road up Croagh Patrick,
And a mossy path up Sliabh Gallion Braes,
And I plunged in the deep at Brandon Creek,
And slept in a glade beyond Dún Maebh,
All alone along the Wicklow Way,
Peace and solitude I found.
When I reached the slopes of Mullaghmore,
I could have sworn that was the holy ground.
Minister, minister,
Pause for reflection,
As you fly by helicopter,
In pursuit of re-election.
An obsession with affairs of State
And legislature
Leaves little time for us to share,
In the miracles of Nature.
Like the fairy foxglove,
And the rusty-back fern at Poll Na Gollum,
The silver cranesbill,
And columbine at Caher Connell,
The juniper at Bellharbour,
The wintergreen around Slaibh Carron.
These miracles of nature,
Surviving in the crevices of the Burren.
There's gonna be sewerage schemes
And septic tanks, tarmac and concrete mixers
And rumours circling Co. Clare,
Promising lots of nixers*,
And car parks to be levelled,
Infills and elevations.
And when the dust is settled,
A handful of jobs and relations.
Nature took two million years,
To sculpture Mullaghmore.
Carved from the ancient rock,
By the freezing ice and snow.
As the sun shines down on the mountain
At the broad Atlantic ocean,
You can hear the small birds singing,
On the Burren round Mullaghmore.



Writer(s): Christy Moore


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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