Shades Of A Blue Orphanage - Thin Lizzy

作词：Phil Lynott

作曲：Phil Lynott

When we were kids he used to go

over the back wall into old Dan scrapyard

Into the snooker hall

where most us kids were barred

An into the Roxy and the Stella

where film stars starred

That where me and Hopalong an

Roy Rogers got drunk and jarred

And we might have been the saviour of the men

The captured captain in the devil demon den

And we might have been the magic politician

in some kind of tricky position

Like an old old old master musician

we kept on wishin

We was headed for the number

one hit country again

And it true

True blue

Irish blue

And it true

True blue

And sometimes it reminds me of you

There an old photograph of Dan

that I wish you could seen

Of him and the boys posed standing

in St Stephen Green

Ya see they were a part of

the great freedom dream

But they were caught and detained

and are locked inside the frame

Of the photograph

And he might have been the clever con

the good samaritan the rassclaut man

And he might have been the loaded gun

the charlatan of the tap dancin fan

But like an old pioneer from outer Afghanistan

Headed for the number one hit country again

And it true

True blue

Irish blue

And it true

True blue

And sometimes it reminds me of you

Old Dan in a raincoat hums

the very very very special notes

Of a long lost favorite melody

It reminds him of a love affair

when he was young and did not care

And how he parted so soft so sadden

And he might have been the laughing cavaliero

the wise old commanchero

Ow the desparate desparado

the good looking Randolph Valentino

The gigolo from Glasgow

But like an old old hunter of the female buffalo

He headed for the number one hit country again

And it true

True blue

Irish blue

And it true

True blue

And sometimes it reminds me of you

And it true

True blue

Irish blue

True blue

Irish blue

And it true

It so true

Ummm it true

I swear I said it

Swear I said it

I swear I said it

I swear it true

And it true

True blue

Oh its Irish blue