Christy Moore - They Never Came Home Lyrics

Lyrics They Never Came Home - Christy Moore



St. Valentine's day comes around once a year,
All our thought turn to love as the day it draws near,
When sweethearts and darlings, husbands and wives,
Pledge love and devotion for the rest of their lives.
As day turns to evening soon nighttime does fall,
Young people preparing for the Valentine's Ball,
As the night rings with laughter some people still
Mourn
The 48 children who never came home.
CHORUS
Have we forgotten the suffering and pain
The survivors and victims of the fire in Artane,
The mothers and fathers forever to mourn
The 48 children who never came home.
Down to the Stardust they all made their way
The bouncers stood back as they lined up to pay
The records are spinning there's dancing as well
Just how the fire started sure no one can tell.
In a matter of seconds confusion did reign
The room was in darkness fire exits were chained
The firefighters wept for they could not hide,
Their anger and sorrow for those left inside.
CHORUS
All around the city the bad news it spread
There's a fire in the Stardust there's 48 dead
Hundreds of children are injured and maimed
And all just because the fire exits were chained.
Our leaders were shocked, grim statements were made
They she'd tears in the graveyard as the bodies were
Laid
The victims have waited in vain for 4 years
It seems like our leaders she'd crocodile tears.
CHORUS
Half a million was spent on solicitor's fees,
A fortune to the owner and his family
It's hard to believe not one penny came
To the working class people who suffered the pain.
Days turn to weeks and weeks turn to years
Our laws favour the rich or so it appears
A woman still waits for her lads to come home
Injustice breeds anger and that's what's been done.
CHORUS



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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