[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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There's a man on the run
And he's never been caught
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He moves at the speed
Of the power of thought
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And he carries the news
In a gleam of his eye
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That what you've been told
Is a kind of a lie
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His enemies number fallen priests
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Men of power and the crooked police
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Cynics from the skool of hard knocks
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And a motley crowd of mis-matched other old crocks
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Who're never ever gonna catch
The Connemara Fox
[Verse 2]
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They chased him in Cong
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They missed him in Maam
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He was already gone
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Never giving a damn
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Wanted dead or alive
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Up the back of of Dog's Bay
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But by the time they arrived
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He was leagues away
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In an oyster bar playing dominoes
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And the only clues he left his foes
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Were a fistful of dust, a change of the locks
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The words of a Kris Kristoffersen song, a pair of old socks
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And graffiti saying so long, suckers
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Love, the Connemara Fox
[Verse 3]
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He was in Bunnahown
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On the day of the fair
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When ship-like clouds
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Sailed the summer air
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And a bodhran thumped
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And a saxophone played
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As the people jumped
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And danced at the side of the bay
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They say he had long elegant fingers
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And when he was gone magic lingered
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A bolt of love that stopped the clocks
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From the village lane where the washing hung to the city blocks
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The name on every tongue
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Was the Connemara Fox
[Verse 4]
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He left a diktat
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On the priest's window sill
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It said "Crough Paaaatrick, Sonny
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Is the paganest hill
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In the whole lump of Ireland
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It shone with green light
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That's why they buried its power
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Under Christian rites
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And that bogus name to which it never belonged
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That you can't even rhyme in a spell or a song
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You're trying to put life back into the box"
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And the priest ran out with a scream in the night in his cap and frocks
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He never even caught sight
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Of the Connemara Fox
[Verse 5]
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He'll be where there is music
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He'll be where there is crack
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He'll be howling the blues
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In the yard out back
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He'll be down in the Claddagh
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Playin' pitch and toss
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He says guilt's an imposter, baby
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You been double-crossed
[Chorus]
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And just when you think you've got him pegged
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All you'll see are the backs of his legs
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A shadow passing way over the rocks
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A wisp of hair, a ghostly snatch of the sound of a box
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No one's ever gonna catch
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The Connemara Fox
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The Connemara Fox