Christy Moore - Lawless
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Lawless - Lyrics and Chords
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Intro
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He was lawless by name, lawless by nature, he was trouble right from the start
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Hard as nails running wild through the streets, he was breaking his poor mother's heart
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Nature played a trick on lawless and the humor of nature is cruel
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He grew up as we all had expected into a dangerous fool
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He was a hard man, a man for all season's, he was always out for a fight
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He couldn't hold drink but still he'd get plastered in clark's every Saturday night
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Strip to the vest and challenge the best until the guards were called to come fast
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And they'd lock him away for the rest of the day and leave him out on the Sunday for mass
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Oh one night he went down to the ringsend regatta where he met up with the bold Dolly Place
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She wasn't exactly what you'd call beauty but she was the bell of her class
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A whirlwind romance and Dolly took a flier with Lawless she would settle down
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It was pure coincidence three months before there was a yankee destroyer in town
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And the couple were blessed with one of gods miracles before six months had elapsed
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Dolly gave birth to a nine pound black baby and Lawless was fit to collapse
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She swore she'd never been touched by another and Lawless took her at her word
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And the neighbours exclaimed he's the spit of his father and the cuckoo's a wonderful bird
Instrumental
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Lawless stay's home in and look's after his baby while Dolly goes out for the night
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The gossips all say she's free in her ways and their evil rumors ran rife
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When Lawless heard this he waited for Dolly at the bridge where the river runs low
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No one will know what happened next but Dolly drowned in the dodder below
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Some say he's crazy and more say he's evil, everyone say's that he's mad
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No one will defend him, he was no angel but I'll tell you he wasn't all bad
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They've locked him away for the rest of his natural, never again will he see
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That down the back of ringsend there's a lonely child playing where the liffey flows into the sea