Christy Moore - Lawless lyrics

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He was Lawless by name, Lawless by nature,

He was trouble right from the start.

Hard as nails, runnin' wild through the streets

He was breakin' 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,

He was always out for a fight.

He couldn't hold drink but still he'd get plastered

In Clark's every Saturday night,

Strip to the vest and challenge the best

Until the guards they were called to come fast,

And they'd lock him away for the rest of the day

And let him out on the Sunday for mass.

Oh one night he went down

To the Ring's End Regatta

Where he met up with the (bold?) Dolly (Platts?)

She wasn't exactly what you'd call beauty,

But she was the belle of our flats.

A whirlwind romance and Dolly took a (flier?)

With Lawless she would settle down

It was pure coincidence three months before

There was a yankee destroyer in town.

And the couple were blessed with one of god's miracles

Before six months had elapsed

Dolly gave birth to a nine-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, and the cuckoo is a wonderful bird.'

Oh now Lawless stays in and looks after his baby

While Dolly goes out for the night.

The old gossips all say she's free in her ways

And their evil rumours ran rife.

When Lawless heard this he waited for Dolly

In the bridge where the river runs low.

Noone will ever know what happened next,

But Dolly drowned in the Dodder

Below.

Some say he's crazy and more say he's evil,

Everyone says that he's mad.

Noone will defend him, he was no angel,

But I'll tell you he wasn't all bad.

They've locked him away for the rest of his natural

Never again will he see

Down the back of Ring's End

There's a lonely child playing

Where the Liffey flows into the sea.

CHRISTY'S COMMENT

Barney Rush was home and we organised a sing-song in

The brought Mick Curry who sang this

Song. He is a great song had a great night.

Frank harte was there too.