The Chieftains - Changing Your Demeanour lyrics

rate me

Here we are we've come to call with pipes and flutes and fiddles and all<br />

In case of death we've even brought a keener,<br />

So, if you're glum and feeling down just feel like us<br />

And act the clown and soon there'll be a change in your demeanour.<br />

(lilting)<br />

I put me money on a horse today for with the race he'd run away<br />

Or so a friend that's in the know he told me,<br />

Twenty lengths ahead at most, he proundly cantered pass the post<br />

But, woe was me, he lost the bloomin' jockey!<br />

(lilting, followed by verse-long fiddle and whistle break)<br />

Now of all the places I have seen from China to the Caribbean,<br />

Are all across the goat compared to Ireland,<br />

From Ballycastle to Tralee the Corrib to the Liffey<br />

There's no where else on earth but like this island.<br />

(lilting, followed by short piano break)<br />

In Hollywood I long to be, no, not the place across the sea,<br />

But in county Wicklow Ireland's lovely garden.<br />

Where no pretenders will you find but decent people warm and kind,<br />

And flocks of friendly sheep into the bargain.<br />

(lilting, followed by short fiddle and whistle break)<br />

For your ills don't take a pill but take it down the road, the hills<br />

And listen to the larks lovely warbling,<br />

In the evening in the company with music in the key of E<br />

You'll be dancing Kerry sets until the morning.<br />

(lilting, followed by Dancing Kerry sets until the morning)

Thanks to Claire M for correcting these lyrics