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Alien Cars

Underneath the Harvest Moon

Paddy and Jock

Jamboree

Day by day

I’ll Tell Me Ma

The Snug

California

Will-O-Ways

Smalltown Lullaby

The Leaving Of Liverpool

 

Alien Cars

(LEIF HERTZ) ARR. BY DUBLIN FAIR

As I crawled from the pub one summers eve
I caught a glimse of something
through the dazzling leaves
The strangest car I had ever seen
Far from the highways in the forest green

With a door wide open inviting me
I just had to give in to curiosity
Lights were flashing all around
As I turned the key and it left the ground

There is life on Venus and Mars
I've been driving alien cars

Well I now you must think I am raving mad
But this is not a story from my head
I've seen the life they lead on Mercury
I've seen the latest in alien technology
 

Underneath the Harvest Moon
(LEIF HERTZ) ARR. BY DUBLIN FAIR

My mind is flowing like a river
Dogs and dreamers will not sleep tonight
I am a rover I'm a hunter
I'll keep on searching 'til the morning light

Stumbling through the backdoor into heaven
Underneath the harvest moon
There is a treasure hidden somewhere in the twilight

Underneath the harvest moon there is a tune
I've gotta croon howl at the moon

I'm drifting far from shallow waters
All of my dreams are going overseas
There are no boundaries no borders
I'll keep on praying for this night to never cease

Hold back the dawn and stall the night
Hold back the dawn and stall the night
I'm not prepared to see the light
 

Paddy and Jock
(JOHN McCAFFREY)

Paddy drew dole in London
With Jock from Glasgow town
Still fighting for a future
From a squat in Brixton town
Oul Jack was feeling restless
Being tired of fucked around
A Paddy me mate I've had enough
Lets split this stinking hole

Well they wired a car in Chelsea
And chrashed outside Witham
Got a lift from a good old German guy
On his way to Amsterdam
Bought a one way ticket to nowhere
They left it all behind
With whiskey and gin from the duty free
You could hear those banshees howl

Paddy and Jock had a rare old time
A smoking dope and drinking wine
With the hair of a dog lost track of time
And forgot about their sorrows

And the changes were amazing
When they finally crawled ashore
There were the tulips growing left and right
And windmills by the score
Oul Jack he found a coffee shop
And much to his surprise
For he fell in love with a tough fräulein
Who walked it nine to five

The jobs were all a plenty
And Paddy did his time
Bashing asbest in some engine room
For a four and twenty five
Oul Jack he made it cushy
Filled his pocket full of dope
Sold camel shit to the John Bull cunts
Just to hear those bastards choke

Paddy headed for the northern lights
For a lovers rendezvous
Jock was taking A and H
To supress his scottish blues
Must have thought he was an eagle
When he climbed up on the roof
Six storeys high to the oul ground floor
It took him one point two
 

Jamboree
(TRAD. ARR: DUBLIN FAIR)

Now me lads be of good cheer
For the lrish coast will soon draw near
Then we’ll set a course for old Cape Clear
Jenny get your oatcakes done

And now Cape Clear it is in sight
We’ll be off Holyhead by tomorrow night
And we’ll steer a course for the old Rock Light
Jenny get your oatcakes done

Whip Jamboree whip Jamboree
Your pig tailed sailor boys hanging down behind 
Whip Jamboree whip Jamboree
Jenny get your oatcakes done

And now me lads we’re off Holyhead
No more salt beef or weevily bread
One man in the chains for to heave the lead
Jenny get your oatcakes done

And next we’re rounding fort Perch Rock
All hammocks lashed and all chests locked
We’ll haul her into Waterloo Dock
Jenny get your oatcakes done

And now me lads we’re all in dock
We’ll be off to Dan Lowry’s on the spot
And there we’ll shop a big pint pot
Jenny get your oatcakes done
   

Day by day
(HANS PETTERSSON)

Like I wanted it to be
Something everyone should see
That happiness would start
And end the day it came to be
Thought that we were two with that feeling
Then a cold December day
She came home for to say
She’s been to see a doctor
And she’s taking it away
And we were better off with nothing

But I never felt that way
No I never felt that way
In all it’s just another christmas
Day by day

In a while she understood
Which I never thought she would
That somethings changed
Something is dead
Nothing that we
Could bring back to life again
Then December seventeen she packed
Her bags to leave
She wrote a note and locked the door
Then she dropped the key
She wrote it was all for the better

I tried to see things clear
But when ever she’s not here
I turn myself to loneliness
And to all my fears
I always was in love
With that feeling
But not a lonely christmas eve
But hopeful as can be
Ask her in a cautious way
If she would marry me
So much love and
nowhere to turn to
   

I’ll Tell Me Ma
(TRAD.ARR: DUBLIN FAIR)

I’ll tell me ma when I go home
The boys won’t leave the girls alone
They pulled me hair and broke my comb
Well that’s alright til I go home
She is handsome she is pretty
She is the girl from Belfast City
She is counting one two three
Please won’t you tell me who is she

Albert Mooney says he loves her
And all the boys are fighting for her
They knock at her door and ring at her bell
Saying o me true love are you well
Out she comes white as snow
Rings on her fingers bells on her toes
Oul Johnny Murrey says she’ll die
If she doesn’t get the fellow with the roving eye 

Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high
Let the snow come tumbling from the sky
She’s as nice as apple pie
She’ll get her own lad by and by
When she gets a lad of her own
She won’t tell her ma when she comes home
Let them all come as they will
For it’s Albert Mooney she love still 
   

The Snug
(JOHN McCAFFREY)

On the north side of Dublin
Just beyond the Phoenix Park
There’s a wee oul pub
We call the Snug
And it’s run by Bonny Leif 0 Heartz 
It’s made of northern timber
It’s seen its better days
But come inside you’ll be surprised
They’ll dance you in and out again

Roll me home boy
Through this rainy Dublin weather
Roll me home lads
And lay me in my bed
Misty morning sun
Caresses Anna Liffey
And a new day calls again

A Tuesday night it’s full of life
The smoke hangs thick and dreamy
When the jockeys and the bookies
From, the race course they get steamy
With laughs and lies a shouting
They relive the days events

Til Leify cries ”Last drinks boys
Drink up your stout and raus...”

It’s the centre of the world
On a Saturday afternoon
With the coppers and corpo
And they all in bloody tune
With cleargy black as porter
As they drink their creamy pints
And Leify eyes show no surprise
When the Snug becomes a confession box

The summer is barmy
When the tourist they all come
They dancing on the tables
And singing rebel songs
Oul Micke in the corner
Sure he likes the skandie girls
With a guten tag and ra ta ta
Now would you like to blow me flute
   

California
(LYRICS: TRAD. ARR BY JOHN McCAFFREY.
MUSIC: TRAD. ARR BY THOMAS LARSSON-ALMBERG)

Sailing high tide from Durban Town
Heave away Santa Anno
Around Cape Horn to the Fresco Bay
And home to California

She's a fine cutty ship with a bloody good crew
Heave away Santa Anno
A god damn yankee for her captain too
Lead us on to California

So heave her up and away we go
Heave away Santa Anno
Heave her up and away we go
Way up to California

Diamonds and gold her cargo grand
Heave away Santa Anno
Keep them safe from pirates hands
Til we reach old California

Black flag sighted she's starboard bound
Heave away Santa Anno
Load them cannons fire first round
Pray God we reach California

Captain Blood and his pirate crew
Heave away Santa Anno
Made old Santy meet her Waterloo
Way up to California

No surrender his last command
Heave away Santa Anno
Left Santa's crew dying on the sands
Long way from California
   

Will-O-Ways
(THOMAS LARSSON-ALMBERG)

I waved my goodbye to the trains passing by
With my hair getting wet by the autumn rain
And I thought of the past when things were going to fast 

I guess that God has his ways with the ones who have failed

The leaves and the bees and the birds in the trees

Are all gone like the one that I love so strong
So I waved my goodbye to the trains passing by
To the cars and in the vain to the aeroplanes

And I prayed yes I prayed
If that way was the way
And I prayed yes I prayed
Or the wrong one for you and for us
Where there's a will there's a way

I laughed and I cried as my life passed me by
And again all in vain in the autumn rain
'cause the fact still remains that I'm lonely again

For as the autumn leaves she just did as she pleased

But I wait and I wait
If that way was the way
And I prayed yes I prayed
Not the wrong one for you and for us
Where there's a will there's a way

When we first met I knew she was one of a kind
I just smiled and said ”How do you do?”
Could we two commense kiss away our defense
I am drunk but I think you are too
And we sang and we danced 'til the morning was young

And we clapped our hands to the bang on the drum
And we knew this night was ment to last for good
   

Smalltown Lullaby
(LEIF HERTZ) ARR. BY DUBLIN FAIR

I stood there upon this old bridge of stone
The sun was sinking low
I was brutaly kissed by a cold breath of mist
As she danced upon the flow

I then closed my eyes retrieving your smile
My heart was set afloat
I wrote you this song now I send it along
On a midnight train of thoughts

Quietly the river floated by
Carrying a smalltown lullaby

See the old man with oars in his hand
Go fishing for a dream
Meanwhile the ghost of an old river boat
Surfaced on the stream
   

The Leaving Of Liverpool
(TRAD. ARR: DUBLIN FAIR)

Farewell to you my own true love
I am sailing far away
I am bound for California
But I know that I'll return some day

So farewell my own true love
For when I return uniten we will be
It's not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me
But my darling when think of thee

I have shiped on a yankee sailing ship
Davy Crocket is her name
And her captains name is Burgees
And they say she is a floating hell

The sun lies on the harbour
And I wish I could remain
For I know it shall be
Such a long long time
Before I see you again