Channel Title: Christy Moore Channel Description: The older brother of Irish folk-pop musician Luka Bloom (Barry Moore), Christy Moore is one of contemporary Irish music's best known singer-songwriters. The former lead vocalist and chief songwriter of Planxty and Moving Hearts, Moore helped to bring the musical traditions of Ireland up to modern standards. As a solo performer, Moore has continued to add elements of rock and popular music to his well-crafted, tradition-based tunes and has been a major inspiration to such modern Irish artists as U2, Sinéad O'Connor, and The Pogues. <video> Christy Moore - Fairytale of New York (Live on Later... with Jools Holland 1996) Description: Music video by Christy Moore performing Fairytale of New York (Live on Later... with Jools Holland 1996).(C) 2024 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited </video> <video> Christy Moore - Bright Blue Rose (Live at The Point, 2006) Description: Music video by Christy Moore performing Bright Blue Rose (Live at The Point, 2006). (C) 2006 Sony Music Entertainment Ireland Limited http://vevo.ly/obEyXN </video> <video> Christy Moore - Johnny Boy (Official Audio) Description: Music video by Christy Moore performing Johnny Boy (Official Audio). (C) 2021 Yellow Furze Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment Ireland Limited http://vevo.ly/yWj3go </video> <video> A Terrible Beauty album launch Description: A video of a conversation between Leagues O'Toole & I at the event we held for the launch of my most recent album, A Terrible Beauty. </video> <video> Christy Moore - Clock Winds Down (Official Audio) Description: Written by Jim Page. Video artwork & Direction: David Rooney. Video animation: Simone Heineck. Taken from the album, Flying into Mystery.Order / listen here: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/FlyingIntoMysteryYC Lyrics It’s hard to know what to say As the world around us fades away Reason falls on deaf ears And the Truth dissolves and disappears As the Clock Winds Down Warning signs years ago We did not want to know All-consuming selfish ways Now there’s a price to pay As the Clock Winds Down The ice caps melt The Amazon burns To the point of no return The grid goes down Screens go blank We’ll be walking down the plank As the Clock Winds Down See the children take to the streets When they hear Greta Thunberg speak Watch the young warriors climb down from the trees Chain themselves to machinery As the Clock Winds Down It’s hard to know what to say When a child looks up and says Hey old man, what did you do We were depending on you Now the Clock Winds Down Now the Clock Winds Down Now the Clock Winds Down To Zero </video> <video> Christy Moore - Joxer Goes To Stuttgart (Official Live Video) Description: Recorded in 2008 at The Barrowlands, Glasgow. Subscribe to Christy Moore on YouTube: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/youtube Listen Spotify: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/spotify Apple Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/applemusic Amazon Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/amazonmusic Deezer: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/deezer Follow Official Website: https://www.christymoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialchristymoore Twitter: https://twitter.com/christymoore45 ----- Lyrics It was in the year of '88 in the lovely month of June When the gadflies were swarming and dogs howling at the moon With rosary beads and sandwiches for Stuttgart we began Joxer packed his German phrasebook and jumpleads for the van. Some of the lads had never been away from home before 'Twas the first time Whacker put his foot outside of Inchicore Before we left for Europe we knew we'd need a plan So we all agreed that Joxer was the man to drive the van. In Germany the autobahn, 'twas like the Long Mile Road There was every make of car and van all carrying the full load Ford Transits and Hiaces and an old Bedford from Tralee With the engine overheating from longhauling duty free. There was fans from Ballygermot, Ballybough and Ballymun On the journey of a lifetime, and the crack was ninety-one Joxer met a German's daughter on the banks of the river Rhine And he told her she'd be welcome in Ballyfermot any time. As soon as we found Stuttgart we got the wagons in a ring Sean Og got out the banjo and Peter played the mandolin There was fans there from everywhere attracted by the sound At the first Fleadh Ceoil in Europe, and Joxer passed the flagon round. But the session it ended when we'd finished all the stout The air mattresses inflated and the sleeping bags rolled out As one by one we fell asleep Joxer had a dream He dreamt himself and Jack Charlton sat down to pick the team. Joxer dreamt they both agreed on Packie Bonner straightaway And that Moran, Whelan and McGrath were certainly to play But tempers they began to rise and patience wearing thin Jack wanted Cascarino but Joxer wanted Quinn. The dream turned into a nightmare, Joxer stuck the head on Jack Who wanted to bring Johnny Giles and Eamon Dunphy back The cock crew in the morning, it crew both loud and shrill Joxer woke up in his sleeping bag many miles from Arbour Hill. The next morning none of the experts gave us the slightest chance They said the English team would lead us on a merry dance With their Union Jacks all them English fans for victory they were set Until Ray Houghton got the ball and he stuck it in the net. What happened next is history, brought tears to many eyes That day will be the highlight of many people's lives Joxer climbed right over the top and the last time he was seen Was arm in arm with Jack Charlton singing, Revenge for Skibereen. Now Whacker's back in Inchicore, he's living with his mam And Jack Charlton has been proclaimed an honorary Irishman Do you remember that German's daughter on the banks of the river Rhine Well, didn't she show up in Ballyfermot last week and ... #ChristyMoore, #Joxer, #Barrowlands, #Glasgow, #Live, #Official, #Ireland, #Acoustic, #Folk, #Irish </video> <video> Christy Moore - Black Is The Colour (Official Live Video) Description: Recorded in 2008 at The Barrowlands, Glasgow. Subscribe to Christy Moore on YouTube: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/youtube Listen Spotify: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/spotify Apple Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/applemusic Amazon Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/amazonmusic Deezer: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/deezer Follow Official Website: https://www.christymoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialchristymoore Twitter: https://twitter.com/christymoore45 ----- Lyrics Black is the colour of my true love's hair, Her lips are like some roses fair, She's the sweetest smile, And the gentlest hands, I love the ground, Whereon she stands. I love my love and well she knows, I love the ground, whereon she goes, I wish the day, it soon would come, When she & I could be as one. Black is the colour of my true love's hair, Her lips are like some roses fair, She's the sweetest smile, And the gentlest hands, I love the ground, Whereon she stands. I go to the Clyde and I mourn and weep, For satisfied, I ne'er can be, I write her a letter, just a few short lines, And suffer death, a thousand times. Black is the colour of my true love's hair, Her lips are like some roses fair, She's the sweetest smile, And the gentlest hands, I love the ground, Whereon she stands. #ChristyMoore, #BlackIsTheColour, #Barrowlands, #Glasgow, #Live, #Official, #Ireland, #Acoustic, #Folk, #Irish </video> <video> Christy Moore - Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette (Official Live Video) Description: Recorded in 2006 at The Point Theatre, Dublin. Subscribe to Christy Moore on YouTube: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/youtube Listen Spotify: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/spotify Apple Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/applemusic Amazon Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/amazonmusic Deezer: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/deezer Follow Official Website: https://www.christymoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialchristymoore Twitter: https://twitter.com/christymoore45 ----- Lyrics They dropped the bomb in '45 to end the world war No-one had ever seen such a terrible[ sight before The world looked on with eyes wide to see where it Might lead The politics of power, they passed around their seed It was a time to remember, we never can forget They were playin' Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette They arose like the saviours of our modern human race With radiation haloes, that hung about their face With the key to the sure-cure, the treatment of our Ills A hot-shot of cobalt, and a pocket-full of pills Speaking always of the enemy, who lurked across the Sea While they crept in among us like a carrier disease Deep down inside the bunkers of the concrete and the Lead Einstein's disciples working steadily ahead Making heavy metal power-plants to fire the city Lights All you can hear in the underground is the humming Through the night And the walls of tight security, circle all around Where they spill out their poison and bury it in the Ground Holed up in the harbours hidden secretly away War-heads and submarines await to make their play The military masterminds improve on their design The soldiers get all doped up and stumble through the Lines While the spills into the rivers get carried out by the Tide They call this security but we're not satisfied Our statesmen and leaders and politicians pay Quick to heed the hand that feeds, they're careful what They say They call out experts to assure us, to wave their magic Wands This is the power of the future, And the future marches On And they call in their favours, all their political Gains While the spills fill the rivers and settle in the Plains I know the minds behind them, they are riddled full of Holes Not to be trusted with their hands at the controls Their eyesight it is twisted by the glory of their Careers The heaped praise and flattery is music to their ears To listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened Yet Like playing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette #ChristyMoore, #Live, #Official, #ThePoint, #Dublin, #Ireland, #Acoustic, #Folk, #Irish </video> <video> Christy Moore - Mercy (Live at The Point, 2006) Description: Music video by Christy Moore performing Mercy (Live at The Point, 2006). (C) 2006 Sony Music Entertainment Ireland Limited http://vevo.ly/JC2zhp </video> <video> Christy Moore - Cry Like a Man (Live at The Point, 2006) Description: Music video by Christy Moore performing Cry Like a Man (Live at The Point, 2006). (C) 2006 Sony Music Entertainment Ireland Limited http://vevo.ly/P9rNaS </video> <video> Christy Moore - Victor Jara (Live at The Point, 2006) Description: Music video by Christy Moore performing Victor Jara (Live at The Point, 2006). (C) 2006 Sony Music Entertainment Ireland Limited http://vevo.ly/3DfNjM </video> <video> Christy Moore - Delirium Tremens (Official Live Video) Description: Recorded in 2008 at The Barrowlands, Glasgow. Subscribe to Christy Moore on YouTube: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/youtube Listen Spotify: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/spotify Apple Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/applemusic Amazon Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/amazonmusic Deezer: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/deezer Follow Official Website: https://www.christymoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialchristymoore Twitter: https://twitter.com/christymoore45 ----- Lyrics I dreamt a dream the other night I couldn't sleep a wink The rats were tryin' to count the sheep and I was off the drink There were footsteps in the parlour and voices on the stairs I was climbin' up the walls and movin' round the chairs. I looked out from under the blanket up at the fireplace. The Pope and John F. Kennedy were starin' in me face. Suddenly it dawned at me I was getting the old D.T.s When the Child o' Prague began to dance around the mantlepiece. Goodbye to the Port and Brandy, to the Vodka and the Stag, To the Schmiddick and the Harpic, the bottled draught and keg. As I sat lookin' up the Guinness ad I could never figure out How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout. Well I swore upon the bible I'd never touch a drop. My heart was palpitatin' I was sure 'twas going to stop, Thinkin' I was dyin' I gave my soul to God to keep. A tenner to St. Anthony to help me get some sleep. I fell into an awful nightmare - got a dreadful shock. When I dreamt there was no Duty-free at the airport down in Knock. George Seawright was sayin' the rosary and SPUC were on the pill. Frank Patterson was gargled and he singin' Spancil Hill. Goodbye to the Port and Brandy, to the Vodka and the Stag, To the Schmiddick and the Harpic, the bottled draught and keg. As I sat lookin' up the Guinness ad I could never figure out How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout. I dreamt that Mr. Haughey had recaptured Crossmaglen Then Garret got re-elected and gave it back again. Dick Spring and Roger Casement were on board the Marita-Ann As she sailed into Fenit they were singin' Banna Strand. I dreamt Archbishop McNamara was on Spike Island for 3 nights Havin' been arrested for supportin' Traveller's rights. I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail Barry Desmond handin' Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail. Goodbye to the Port and Brandy, to the Vodka and the Stag, To the Schmiddick and the Harpic, the bottled draught and keg. As I sat lookin' up the Guinness ad I could never figure out How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout. I dreamt of Nell McCafferty and Mary Kenny too The things that we got up to, but I'm not tellin' you. I dreamt I was in a jacuzzi along with Alice Glenn 'Twas then I knew I'd never ever, ever drink again. #ChristyMoore, #DeliriumTremens, #Barrowlands, #Glasgow, #Live, #Official, #Ireland, #Acoustic, #Folk, #Irish </video> <video> Christy Moore - Boy in The Wild Description: 'Boy In the WIld' by Christy Moore. From the album 'A Terrible Beauty'. Order Now : https://claddagh.lnk.to/ATerribleBeautyCM Written by Wally Page & Christy Moore Vocals & Guitar by Christy Moore Backing Vocals by Andy Moore Piano, Organ & Percussion by Gavin Murphy The Father - Liam Cunningham The Son - Ollie West The Cashier - Muireann Ryan Young Father - Dave O'Carroll Young Son - DJ Linnie O'Carroll Directed by Ellius Grace Producer by Ellius Grace Line Producer - Kate Gurren 1st AD - Meghan O'Shaughnessy Cinematographer - Aidan Gault 1st AC - Dean Gordon 2nd AC - Sophie Fullam Gaffer - Ben Condell & Mark Sosiak Wardrobe - Sarah Heruaghty Art Director - Noelle Slacke SFX Makeup - Aisling Kelly PA - Kevin Cleary & Ciaran Moran BTS Photographer - Faolan Carey </video> <video> Christy Moore - City of Chicago (Official Live Video) Description: Recorded in 2006 at The Point Theatre, Dublin. Subscribe to Christy Moore on YouTube: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/youtube Listen Spotify: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/spotify Apple Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/applemusic Amazon Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/amazonmusic Deezer: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/deezer Follow Official Website: https://www.christymoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialchristymoore Twitter: https://twitter.com/christymoore45 ----- Lyrics In the City of Chicago As the evening shadows fall There are people dreaming Of the hills of Donegal 1847 was the year it all began Deadly pains of hunger drove a million from the land They journeyed not for glory Their motive wasn't greed A voyage of survival across the stormy sea To the City of Chicago As the evening shadows fall There are people dreaming Of the hills of Donegal Some of them knew fortune Some of them knew fame More of them knew hardship And died upon the plain They spread throughout the nation They rode the railroad cars Brought their songs ant music to ease their lonely hearts To the City of Chicago As the evening shadows fall There are people dreaming Of the hills of Donegal #ChristyMoore, #Live, #Official, #ThePoint, #Dublin, #Ireland, #Acoustic, #Folk, #Irish </video> <video> Christy Moore - No Time For Love (Official Live Video) Description: Recorded in 2008 at The Barrowlands, Glasgow. Subscribe to Christy Moore on YouTube: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/youtube Listen Spotify: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/spotify Apple Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/applemusic Amazon Music: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/amazonmusic Deezer: https://ChristyMoore.lnk.to/DSPAY/deezer Follow Official Website: https://www.christymoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialchristymoore Twitter: https://twitter.com/christymoore45 ----- Lyrics You call it the law, we call it apartheid, internment, conscription, partition and silence. It's the law that they make to keep you and me where they think we belong. The hide behind steel and bullet-proof glass, machine guns and spies, And tell us who suffer the tear gas and the torture that we're in the wrong. No time for love if they come in the morning, No time to show tears or for fears in the morning, No time for goodbye, no time to ask why, And the sound of the siren's the cry of the morning. They suffered the torture they rotted in cells, went crazy, wrote letters and died. The limits of pain they endured - the loneliness got them instead. And the courts gave them justice as justice is given by well-mannered thugs. Sometimes they fought for the will to survive but more times they just wished they were dead. No time for love if they come in the morning, No time to show tears or for fears in the morning, No time for goodbye, no time to ask why, And the sound of the siren's the cry of the morning. They took away Sacco, Vanzetti, Connolly and Pearce in their time. They came for Newton and Seal, Bobby Sands and some of his friends. In Boston, Chicago, Saigon, Santiago, Warsaw and Belfast, And places that never make headlines, the list never ends. No time for love if they come in the morning, No time to show tears or for fears in the morning, No time for goodbye, no time to ask why, And the sound of the siren's the cry of the morning. The boys in blue are only a few of the everyday cops on the beat, The C.I.D., Branchmen, informers and spies do their jobs just as well; Behind them the men who tap phones, take photos, program computers and files, And the man who tells them when to come and take you to your cell. No time for love if they come in the morning, No time to show tears or for fears in the morning, No time for goodbye, no time to ask why, And the sound of the siren's the cry of the morning. All of you people who give to your sisters and brothers the will to fight on, They say you can get used to a war, that doesn't mean that the war isn't on. The fish need the sea to survive, just like your people need you. And the death squad can only get through to them if first they can get through to you. No time for love if they come in the morning, No time to show tears or for fears in the morning, No time for goodbye, no time to ask why, And the sound of the siren's the cry of the morning. #ChristyMoore, #NoTimeForLove, #Barrowlands, #Glasgow, #Live, #Official, #Ireland, #Acoustic, #Folk, #Irish </video>

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The older brother of Irish folk-pop musician Luka Bloom (Barry Moore), Christy Moore is one of contemporary Irish music's best known singer-songwriters.

The former lead vocalist and chief songwriter of Planxty and Moving Hearts, Moore helped to bring the musical traditions of Ireland up to modern standards. As a solo performer, Moore has continued to add elements of rock and popular music to his well-crafted, tradition-based tunes and has been a major inspiration to such modern Irish artists as U2, Sinéad O'Connor, and The Pogues.

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