Don't Forget Your Shovel Lyrics

Close your eyes and come with me back to 1984 We'll take a walk down Henry Street to Dunnes Department store. The supermarket's busy and the registers make a din' The groceries go ...Read Full Lyrics

A girl cries in the early morning Woken by the sound of a gun She knows somewhere somebody's dying Beneath the rising sun Outside the window of her cabaña The shadows are full of ...Read Full Lyrics

A young man fell in love with truth In searching th wide world for her He found her in the small house In the clearing In the forest She was old and she was stooped He pledged hims...Read Full Lyrics

Every time I go to London I think about Giuseppe Conlon Who left his home in Belfast And travelled over to his son As he said goodbye to Sarah And took the boat to Heysham Little d...Read Full Lyrics

Born in the middle of the afternoon In a horsedrawn carriage on the old A5 The big twelve wheeler shook my bed, "You can't stay here" the policeman said. Chorus You'd better get ...Read Full Lyrics

As I was climbing into bed at my Granny's side I looked out the window the Brits they had arrived The house was surrounded they smashed in the front door In They'd come to take awa...Read Full Lyrics

From Rotherhithe in London to Bethnal by the Green Paddy worked the buildings with the pick and shovel Squad Friday nights he'd always end up drinking with the lads The craic was m...Read Full Lyrics

You're in the pub at half past ten, the money for the Cure all spent again, Trying to figure out who's carrying and where they'll Be that day Forget about the night before when yo...Read Full Lyrics

They dropped the bomb in '45 to end the world war, No-one had ever seen such a terrible[ sight before, The world looked on with eyes wide to see where it Might lead, The politic...Read Full Lyrics

In Dublin City in 1914 the boss was rich and the poor Were slaves The women working and the children hungry then on came Larkin like a mighty wave The workers cringed when the boss...Read Full Lyrics