Biography:
Christy Moore, a native of Co. Kildare, Ireland, found fame as a member of the legendary tradition folk band Planxty. Since then he has carved out his own career as a consummate solo performer. In the 1980s Christy teamed up with Donal Lunny to form the innovative Moving Hearts.
Christy Moore started in the music business in the mid-sixties, when his life as a bank clerk was interrupted by a bank strike, and he moved to England. There he became involved in the folk music scene at the time
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Other songs:
- Natives
- Spancil Hill
- The Lakes Of Pontchartrain
- A Pair Of Brown Eyes
- Aisling
- All I Remember
- Allende
- Among The Wicklow Hills
- Apair Of Brown Eyes
- Arthur Macbride
- As I Roved Out
- Back Home In Derry
- Barrowland
- Biko Drum
- Black Is The Colour
- Black Jack County Chain
- Bright Blue Rose
- Casey
- City Of Chicago
- Cliffs Of Dooneen
- Continental Ceili
- Cry Like A Man
- Delirium Tremens
- Does This Train Stop On Merseyside
- Dunnes Stores
- El Salvador
- Fairytale Of New York
- Faithful Departed
- Follow Me Up To Carlow
- Galtee Mountain Boy
- Go Move Shift
- Hey Sandy
- Irish Ways And Irish Laws
- John Odreams
- Johnny Dont Go To Ballincollig
- Joxer Goes To Stuttgart
- Lakes Of Pontchartrain
- Lisdoonvarna And Ill Tell Me Ma
- Little Musgrave
- Mary From Dungloe
- Matty
- Missing You
- Motherland
- My Little Honda 50
- Nancy Spain
- No Time For Love
- North And South Of The River
- On Morecambe Bay
- One Last Cold Kiss
- Only Our Rivers Run Free
- Ordinary Man
- Quiet Desperation
- Reel In The Flickering Light
- Ride On
- Scapegoats
- Smoke And Strong Whiskey
- So Do I
- St Brendans Voyage
- The Boy From Tamlaghduff
- The Contender
- The Craic Was Ninety In The Isle Of Man
- The Curragh Of Kildare
- The Dying Soldier
- The Mad Lady And Me
- The Night Visit
- The Time Has Come
- The Two Conneeleys
- The Voyage
- They Never Came Home
- Tyrone Boys
- Veronica
- Viva La Quinta Brigada
- Weekend In Amsterdam
- Welcome To The Cabaret
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[Intro]
C G C G C G C G
[Verse 1]
D G
Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers
C G
Whose husbands and fathers alike
D C
Drink black beer in the same public houses
C D G
Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey
C G
D G
Mammies and daddies and skipping ropes
C G
Lectures from priests, living in hope
D C
They've not mistaken the brand of their coats
C D G
Paid for by their spiritual teachings
C G
D G
A busy year this, the streets running red
C G
How many sent to a nuptial bed
D C
And how many sent home to a winter of graves
C D G
And how many wait in for the slaughter
C G
[Chorus]
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
[Bridge]
Em Am Em Am
[Verse 2]
D G
It's Easter again and we cannot forget
C G
Brothers and sisters and all that was said
D C
So practice your pipes, stand proud in the wet
C D G
But the eyes of the world are upon you
C G
D G
God in his mercy has given us men
C G
To lead us to peace but they can't bring an end
D C
To the profits that pay off the lease on the land
C D G
We still send them over the water
C G
D G
Seventeen years and Kelly's a man
C G
Who stands on the street with a gun in his hand
D C
He's Protecting the pipers that play in the band
C D G
While the enemy waits with an army
[Chorus]
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
[Bridge]
Em Am Em Am
[Verse 3]
D G
Dia le hEireann, suckle the empire
C G
Dia le hEireann, suffer the loss
D C
Of the green to the blue while the media feeds
C D G
On the blood and the pain and the hatred
C G
D G
Father walks home on the colourless night
C G
And the organisation has blinded his sight
D G
His wife and his kids are sleeping tonight
C D
In the arms of sweet Jesus and Mary
[Chorus]
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
(Repeat to Fade)
C G C G C G C G
[Verse 1]
D G
Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers
C G
Whose husbands and fathers alike
D C
Drink black beer in the same public houses
C D G
Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey
C G
D G
Mammies and daddies and skipping ropes
C G
Lectures from priests, living in hope
D C
They've not mistaken the brand of their coats
C D G
Paid for by their spiritual teachings
C G
D G
A busy year this, the streets running red
C G
How many sent to a nuptial bed
D C
And how many sent home to a winter of graves
C D G
And how many wait in for the slaughter
C G
[Chorus]
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
[Bridge]
Em Am Em Am
[Verse 2]
D G
It's Easter again and we cannot forget
C G
Brothers and sisters and all that was said
D C
So practice your pipes, stand proud in the wet
C D G
But the eyes of the world are upon you
C G
D G
God in his mercy has given us men
C G
To lead us to peace but they can't bring an end
D C
To the profits that pay off the lease on the land
C D G
We still send them over the water
C G
D G
Seventeen years and Kelly's a man
C G
Who stands on the street with a gun in his hand
D C
He's Protecting the pipers that play in the band
C D G
While the enemy waits with an army
[Chorus]
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
[Bridge]
Em Am Em Am
[Verse 3]
D G
Dia le hEireann, suckle the empire
C G
Dia le hEireann, suffer the loss
D C
Of the green to the blue while the media feeds
C D G
On the blood and the pain and the hatred
C G
D G
Father walks home on the colourless night
C G
And the organisation has blinded his sight
D G
His wife and his kids are sleeping tonight
C D
In the arms of sweet Jesus and Mary
[Chorus]
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
G C D
Oh the holy ground
C Am D
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
(Repeat to Fade)
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