LYRICS
1. Nomad
2. Tom Paine’s Bones
3. Patrick Kavanagh
4. Lily the Pink
5. The World Is a Circus
6. Sally Brown
7. Sail Out West
8. Workers Song
9. Superhero
10. Passage
Nomad
(Chorus)
I want to be a nomad with no facade Feel my bare feet ‘neath the sun’s heatIm making home as I roamAnd I’m Alone as I roamI’ll be a nomad, with no facade,I wanna roam.
I want to catch a fish through a sheet of ice
Skin it from the spine with my bare device
Carve a deep path through snow up north
Seek a dark cave to forge up warmth.
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I want to find an oasis between the desert hills
Transform a sheet to shelter with no frills
Quench the thirsty road from the spring of life
Wear rainbow colours to fend off the burning light.
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I want to feel the wind of the pure vast ocean
On a raft built from hardship and devotion
Eat tasteless grub from an ancient rock
I’ll gaze at dusk at a lightning fork.
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I... imagine i ….would be happier
On the move with nature.
I want to sketch my life on a giant red boulder
Imitate the sound of a rival predator
Speak an old language of unwritten words
Bearing no facade I’ll walk the world.
(Chorus) x 3
Tom Paine's Bones
As I dreamed out one evening
By a river of discontent
I bumped straight into old Tom Paine
As running down the road he went
He said, "I can't stop right now, child,
King George is after me
He'd have a rope around my throat
And hang me on the Liberty Tree
(Chorus)
But I will dance to Tom Paine's bones
Dance to Tom Paine's bones
Dance in the oldest boots I own
To the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones
I will dance to Tom Paine's bones
Dance to Tom Paine's bones
Dance in the oldest boots I own
To the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones
They say I talked about freedom
And justice for everyone
But ever since the very first word I spoke
I've been looking down the barrel of a gun
They say I preached revolution
Let me say in my defence
That all I ever did wherever I went
Was to speak a lot of common sense
Chorus
Old Tom Paine he ran so fast
He left me standing still
And there I was, a piece of paper in my hand
Standing at the top of the hill
It said, "This is the Age Of Reason
These are The Rights Of Men!"
Kick off religion and monarchy"
was written there in Tom Paine's plan
Chorus
Old Tom Paine, there he lies
Nobody laughs and nobody cries
How he goes or how he fares
Nobody knows and nobody cares
But I will dance to Tom Paine's bones
Dance to Tom Paine's bones
Dance in the oldest boots I own
To the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones
I will dance to Tom Paine's bones
Dance to Tom Paine's bones
Dance in the oldest boots I own
To the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones
Chorus x 2
Patrick Kavanagh
Rises from the unknown night
Glasses fallen on his chest
One boot on and one shoe off
Confusion strives to manifest.
Brushes off the ignorance
Looms the banks of the Grand Canal
With rippled memories of past
With ink and paper armed in hand
(Chorus)
He reaches for the whiskey bottle.
Though his mind is full of noble words,
He stares it down with half an eye
He stares it down, with half an eye
A Guinness barge has passed his sight
The gulls above have taken flight
Burning smoke between his nails
A box of Players and his tales.
He reaches for the daily news
Rolled up fronting hidden booze
A steady beat with complex rhymes
A country man, in Dublin times.
(Chorus)
He rests down on his serene seat
And crosses both his tired feet
Writes a paragraph or two
And bids the whiskey fair adieu
(Chorus) x 2
Lily The Pink
(Chorus)
We'll drink a drink, a drink
To Lily the Pink, the Pink, the Pink
The savior of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case
Mr. Freers had sticky out ears
And it made him awful shy
And so they gave him medicinal compound
And now he's learning how to fly
Brother Tony was notably bony
He would never eat his meal
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now they move him round on wheels
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Old Ebenezer thought he was Julius Caesar
And so they put him in a home
Where they gave him medicinal compound
And now he's emperor of Rome
Johnny Hammer had a t-terrible' ssstammer'
He could hardly s-s-say a word
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now's he's seen, but never heard
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Aunty Milly ran willy-nilly
When her legs they did recede
And so they rubbed on medicinal compound
Now they call her Milly Pede
Jennifer Eccles had terrible freckles
And the boys all called her names
But she changed medicinal compound
Now he joins in all the games
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Lily the Pink, she turned to drink
She filled up with paraffin inside
And despite her medicinal compound
Sadly pickled Lily died
Up to heaven her soul ascended
All the church bells they did ring
She took with her medicinal compound
Hark the herald angels sing
(Chorus x 3)
The World Is A Circus
I don't see fame
I just see the person
And everything
that man is immersed in
When I close my eyes
we seem to talk alike
And when I open,
it’s my turn to throw the dice.
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Some things are hard to see,
that’s the way she made us.
Happiness is the key,
the world is a circus.
The world is mad I don’t see a future
For now at least, we need to nurture
And when it’s time for the sea to swallow
I’ll keep in line but I won’t follow
(Chorus)
The word is out
To start thinking
The world is about
To meet it’s making
(x 2)
(Chorus) x 2
Sally Brown
Sally Brown is a nice young lady
Way hey roll and go
And we rolled all night
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
She's tall, she's dark, she's not too shady.
Way hey roll and go
And we rolled all night
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
I shipped on board off a Liverpool liner
Way hey roll and go
And we rolled all night
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
Her mother doesn't like such a tarry sailor
Way hey roll and go
And we rolled all night
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
She wants her to marry a one legged captain
Way hey roll and go
And we rolled all night
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
Sally wouldn't marry
so I shipped across the water
Way hey roll and go
And we rolled all night
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
And now I am courting Sally's daughter
Way hey roll and go
And we rolled all night
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
Sally Brown is a nice young lady
Way hey roll and go
She drinks stock rum and she chews tobacco
Way hey roll and go
And we rolled all night
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
And we rolled all the day
I spent my money along with Sally Brown
Sail Out West
I can feel it in my bones
I can feel it’s coming home
I can feel we’re floating down
the channel of love,
Let’s steer it out wide
Steer it with the tide
Let us slice our way through the shade
I promise love in spades
I know you’ll sail the sea
Share your life with me
And we will be free
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We’re going to sway it to the left
And Sway it to the right
Stay with me forever
We’re going to carve out a life
We will wash away the strife
We’ll get through whatever
Won’t you stay with me
Stay with me
We’re going to bring it round the bend
We will bring it to the end
We’re going to drink when we hit dry land
lay drunk on the sand.
We’ll make a beeline for hope
And make a beeline for home
And new life has begun
In the sun.
I know you’ll sail the sea
Say you will stay with me
And we will be free
(Chorus)
We’re going to sail out west
And we will give it our best
We will sing until the sun sets low
In your Goddess glow
(Chorus) x 2
Workers Song
This one's for the workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain to earn your pay
Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We've often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed
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We're the first ones to starve the first ones to die
We’re the first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And we’re always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore
And expected to die for the land of our birth
Though we've never owned one handful of earth?
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I am all of these things the worker has done
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
We've been yoked to the plough since time first began
And we’re always expected to carry the can
(Chorus) x 3
Superhero
I’m a superhero
Cuz I hurt no one
I talk to strangers
I don’t believe in guns
If I was dean I’d take defense off everyone
If I was King I’d change entirely everything
I’m a superhero
And I don’t fall for lies
I see through it
The war on normal lives
If I was judge I’d hammer all who unfairly gains
If I was God I’d have them all locked up in chains
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I’m a superhero
I will fight for us
My heart’s an inferno
For love & life comes first
I’m a superhero
They can’t hold me down
I believe in only good
That bad will fall to ground
If I was them,
I’d be scared of men like you and me
Cuz we have powers,
ones that they fail to see.
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If I was dean we'd be safe
If I was King there'd be change
If I was judge we would gain
If I was God I’d be fair
I would be a superhero..
I’m a superhero
Cuz I hurt no one
I talk to strangers
I don’t believe in guns
If I was dean I’d take defense off everyone
If I was King I’d change entirely everything
(Chorus) x 4
Passage
We’ll reminisce of the camping trip
We took in Donegal
When we brought back those nordie girls
And the tent began to fall
Never have I laughed so hard
As we tried to make them stay
The rain was pouring down
And we were well on our way
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We’ll have a pint or two my friend
Which we’ll probably over-do
And open up the bottle
Of the memories we’ve been through
Rememeber down in Passage West
On the boat made for one
We rowed around in circles
Until the sun was almost gone
Singing row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
It was then we changed the lyrics
To “life it is a dream.”
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I miss those days The carefree ways,
When we were young
Those were good times
We were eighteen, To Twenty one
(x 2)
I don’t regret when we hired the van
And we drove through Conor’s pass
The engine it was making noise
Since we drove up on the grass
How many *feckin Germans
Did we meet along the way
After breaking down beside a wall
As we walked to Dingle Bay.
We were all sick and feverish
And Dolan had the flu.
But Johnny produced some whiskey
And the sun came smiling through.
(Chorus) x 4
*an Irish term of endearment and fondness