The Ballad Of Ruby Walsh - Christy Moore

作词：Christy Moore

作曲：Christy Moore

There's Bethlem and Cheltenham

And Lourdes and Limerick

Junction

The trip to Mejagori come up

For the extra motion

Good people climb Croagh Patrick

With serenity on their

Faces

But Ruby Walsh saved me life below

At the Galway Races

Hay Ruby hold her back

Give her the craic and up

She'll go

They're under starters orders Ted Walsh is

Commentating

Ruby's up on the favorite

She'll take some beating

Necks are strained eyes

Are trained there's fear upon

Their faces

There's agony and ecstasy below

At the Galway races

Ruby hold her back give her

The craic and up she'll

Go

It's there you'll see gentility

And sheep dressed up as

Mutton

There's double barreled names

With Mulherns on old

Malodions

The talk is all of tillage

Of silage and corn acre

I fancy Tracy Piggot in the saddle

In the enclosure

Ruby hold her back give her

The craic and up she'll go

Sir John Mucksavage Smith

Is there with Smurfits and

O'Reilly's

The owners and the trainers

The stable boys and

Jockeys

With silk around their arses

Getting up on rich men's

Horses

The convention wives and daughters

And marriages and

Divorces

Hay Ruby hold her back give her

The craic and up

She'll go

There's Celtic helicopters

Land bank speculators

Builders and developers

Crocodiles and alligators

Soldiers of destiny their

In the fields of frenzy

Their mouths wrapped round

The Lamb Of God come back

For the gravy

Hay Ruby hold her back

Give her the craic and up

She'll go

Thursday is the ladies day

And the women all look

Smashing

Their lashing on the lipstick

Philip tracys all the

Fashion

You can see the liposuction

The botox and ogmanation

Brazilian haircuts the

Collonic irrigation

Hay Ruby hold her back

Give her the craic and up

She'll go

And every one's out in Salthill

For the craic and for

The porter

There's bookies making odds on

Two flies walking up the

Wall

There's folk and trad karaoke

And set dances

While some of us

Who seen better days were looking to

Take our chances

Hay Ruby hold her back

Give her the craic and up

She'll go

Their galloping down the back straight

He has her in

The canter

A look at her up the jumps be Gad

She's like a bally-

Dancer

Over the last she hits the front

The other one's going

To pass her

Winner alright it's up Kildare

Follow me up to Carlow

Hay Ruby hold her back give her

The craic and up

She'll go

Hay Ruby hold her back give her

The craic and up

She'll go