Lisdoonvarna Chords by Christy Moore

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_ Never let it be said, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ there's 28 counties in Ireland, there's Longford, Westmead and Rushcombe. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Oh, listen [C] back, _ [G] listen, listen, listen, [C] listen back.
_ [G] Oh, _ _ [C] listen back, _ [G] listen, listen, listen, [C] listen back.
_ _ [D] How's it going there everybody [C] from Cork, New York and Gothgurt, [D] Aharp and Glenimatti? _
[C] Oh, listen back, listen.
Here we are in the county town, [D] it's a long, long way from here to there.
[C] There's the Burran.
[D] There's the Cliffs of Moher.
[C] There's the Kolla.
[D] There's the Gilfoyne, and [C] there's Michael Russell, [D] Dr.
Bill, [C] Willie Clancy [D] and Noel
Hale [C] and Sloots and [D] Fiddles everywhere.
[C] If it's music you want, it [D] is_
Hup the banner!
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_ [C] Listernbarn!
Hey!
_ [G] Listern, Listern, Listern, [C] Listernbarn!
Now we have it!
_ [G] Oh, _
_ [C] Listernbarn!
_ _ [G] Listern, Listern, Listern, [C] Listernbarn!
Oh, [D] Listernbarn!
Everybody needs a break.
[C] Time to mount and jump in the lake.
[D] Some head off to exotic places,
[C] and others go to the cabarets.
[D] Matty goes to the south of France,
[C] and Jim to the dogs,
and Peter to the dance.
[D] A cousin of mine goes pop hauling.
[C] A cousin of hers loves Joe Dolling. _ _ _
[D] As the summer comes around [G] each year,
[C] well, we go derting.
They come here, and [D] some jet off to Pruhilly Anna,
but [C] me and Donald Deckard, we always head down there.
We go right down.
Get down!
Get down!
[G] Oh, _ _
_ [C] Listernbarn!
Hey!
[G] Hup!
Hup!
Listern, Listern, Listern, [C] Listernbarn!
_ [G] Oh, _ _
_ [C] Listernbarn!
_ [G] Oh, Listernbarn!
[C] Oh, Listernbarn!
_ [D] Well, I normally leave with my turds and eyes,
[C] put my tent and my groundsheet for all the time.
[D] I like to hit Listern [G] in and around
Friday afternoon, because
[D] this gives me time to get my tent up,
get [C] my gear together.
[D] I don't need to worry
[C] about the weather.
[D] I can ramble in
for a pint of stout.
[C] You never know
who'd be hanging about.
[D] There's the Dutchman
playing a [C] mandolin, and there's a German
looking for a limo player.
[D] Adam and Bono and Larry and [C] the Edgegum,
the photo taken with Naomi.
[G] [D] Kipping by Charlie in gym [C] hand
and the drinking pints, the bit [D] abandoned.
Why wouldn't they, for Jesus' sake?
Aren't [C] they getting it for nothing?
_ _ [G] Oh, _ _ [C] Listernbarn!
Hey!
Hup!
[G] Hup!
Listern, Listern, Listern, [C] Listernbarn!
_ _ [G] Oh, _ _ [C] Listernbarn!
Oh, [G] Listernbarn!
Oh, Listern, Listern, Listern, [C] Listernbarn!
_ _ [G] Oh, Listernbarn!
The multitudes, they [D] flocked and thronged
[C] to hear the music and the songs.
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Motorbikes and high [C]-hase vans
with bottles and barrels, flak and cans
[D] of Mighty Crack, [C] loads of [D] products.
Pioneers [C] and alcoholics
[D] and plak and spook and the FCA,
[C] three Nicky Kelly and the IRA.
[D]
Hairy chests and milk-white ties
[C] and [G] Mickey Dodgers in disguise.
[D] A-graze a-brians, [C] pippins, cocks,
a massage parlour and horseboxes.
[D]
RTE your neck [C] and pips
and ticking bricks and throwing shifts.
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Owl-rons [C] and bow [D]-rons
and [C] Amadons, hairy [D] freaks
and Arab [G] Sikhs and Hindu [D] Sikhs
and Jesus [C] Greeks, and this is heaven
[D]
this is heck [C] and who cares
[D] who can tell [C] them?
Anyone for the
last few Chauckeis?
development club, polling club,
[G] Oh, _ _
_ [C] Listernbarn!
_ _ [G] Oh, Listern, Listern, Listern [C] Listernbarn!
_ _ [G] Oh, _
_ [C] Listernbarn!
_ _ [G] Oh, Listern, Listern Listern [C] Listernbarn!
_ _ [D] Oh, _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] Listern, Listern [C] Listernbarn!
to build a special [Fm] run but just to get [G] him down and [Dm] before the chieftains could
start to play [C] there was six creamy pints come out in the train. _
_ [D] Sean Cannon was
doing the backstage [C] cuckoo and Charger was written by Lord Lucas.
[D] Mary O'Hara
and the Brush [C] Shields together singing the Four [G] [D] Greenfields and Cannon were
playing Harry's game.
[C] Christopher was singing Lady in Red and the Spanish
Train.
[D] Band of Man, Band of [C] Man was going, turn it up, turn it up, turn [D] it up, turn it up, turn it up.
[G] Hey, I just meet [C] my [Gm] wife when I go [D] home.
The wives won't [G] let the girls alone.
I pull my hair, sew my [D] comb.
The ducks are right still in [G] the home.
She is handsome, [C] she is pretty, [G] she is the belle [D] of the house, that's right.
[G] She is [C] cut in one, two, three.
[G] They told you, tell me who is she?
You know.
A [C] Mr.
Man.
Oh yeah.
[G]
A Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
[C] Mr.
Man. _ _ _
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[D] _ Everybody needs a break.
[C] Climb a mountain or jump in a [D] lake.
_ _ _ [C] Sean Doherty goes to the
Rose of Trinity in [D] honour of Geoff Tannegan.
God be good to him, he used to [C] go swimming
full of naked in the Holy [D] Sea.
_ _ [C] But we prefer music in the open air, [D] so every summer we do
Head Down, Dare to [C] Clear because it would stop, [D] nor not.
_ _ Nor Freddie [C] Mercury and Slant Bee
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