Muirshin Durkin Lyrics

You got to weep You got to wail You got to drag yourself on hands and knees bleeding Another mile along the trail You got to laugh in the face of the devil When he's hanging on to ...Read Full Lyrics

The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts, They blasted and dug with their sweat and their guts They never drank water but whiskey by pints And the shanty towns rang wit...Read Full Lyrics

It was 1962 I was two years out of school When I got on board a boat That was bound for Liverpool The day I went away I remember it so well Said goodbye to the North Wa...Read Full Lyrics

Across the dark and dusty plain Where scars of old dry rivers run Night unfolds, a coal black shroud Across the hard and stony ground Distant stars shining bright In the cavern of...Read Full Lyrics

The hour's late and the lights are low I'm walking home just kicking stones I waited at the deopt you never showed You missed the last bus hours ago I remember the first time I saw...Read Full Lyrics

The night stank of diesel And a stranger came to town A cold wind blowing And the rain pouring down Street lights flicker And the power lines moan The moon beat down On a river of ...Read Full Lyrics

The City of Light is dimmed now by the winter, No gut full of wine could keep out this frost We'll shiver and sigh by the ice on the river Ask the dull heavens, "The hell have we l...Read Full Lyrics

Below the Pont Mirabeau Slow flows the Seine And all out loves together Must I recall again Joy would always follow After pain Hands holding hands Let us stand face to face While ...Read Full Lyrics

The church bell rings An old drunk sings A young girl hocks her wedding ring Down on rain street Down the alley the icewagon flew Picked up a stiff that was turning blue The local...Read Full Lyrics

[the pogues' version] ----------------------------------------- In eighteen hundred and forty-one The corduroy breeches I put on Me corduroy breeches I put on To work upon the rai...Read Full Lyrics