Тексты песен «Black 47»

Oh it's midnight on the Bowery and your feet are soakin' wet And you've drank your last brass farthin' You'd sell your soul for a cigarette And the sounds from CBGB's are comfortin' to you Then you think of the...

Open up the door, she's standin' there with the smile in her eyes but the grey in her hair betrays the fact you strayed far from home with your drinkin', your smokin', your whorin' around sit down by the fire, put...

On the banks of the Hudson My love and I lay down Just above 42nd Street While the rain was pouring down When I covered her with kisses The sparks lit up her eyes We made love like mad angels While the Jersey trucks...

Mo chara is mo lao thu! (My friend and my calf) Is aisling tri nallaibh (A vision in dream) Do deineadh arir dom (Was revealed to me last night) IgCorcaigh go danach (In Cork, a late hour) Ar leaba im aonar (In...

Everything is still Not a chicken not a body Just an awful sickenin' silence roarin' in my brain And the fog of death deepens and lies upon the land An ould wan rolls over on her back The grass stains still green upon...

Mister Frankie Diamond was my best friend We were partners in a business down on C and 7th Nothin' ever got this good brother down He was a real live wire in an electric town Frankie started hangin' with an uptown girl...

Carlita is waiting down on C & 9th In mantilla and lace and her lover's knife Cries out for revenge, she is silent like a stone Beautiful in her widow's weeds I wait in the darkness forever now alone Too late for any...

My name is Bobby Sands MP Born in the city of Belfast Divided by religion I grew up fast I was stabbed and I was spat upon My family run out of its home There was only one solution Turn the whole system upside down But...

Standing in your hallway, kiss your angel hair Hear your old grandmother recite her immigrant prayer She knew what you had to do, she'd probably kill you first, first But hold on, darlin', this time tomorrow, you'll be...

Josie, are you listenin', can you pull the veil apart Is the circle still unbroken, can you touch my serpent heart Is the light still in your window, the latch open on your door Or does some stranger occupy my...

I remember you back in 1992 When they were putting us down Trying to tramp us into the ground You exploded like a flame in the night With a righteous indignation Told us "everything gonna be alright" Change come slowly...

One bright and sunny mornin' down on avenue b As i was returnin' home from a night of debauchery I met me landlord boris, "yo," sez he, "Would ya ever go over to czechoslovakia, Marry me daughter for me?" He waved a...

Danny came over to old New York From Bandon town in the county Cork He got a room on the avenue in Woodside Queens And a job off the books doin' demolition He was kind of different than everyone else Oh, he liked to...

Born on a black Monday, me mother screamin' curses Me old lad in the pub losin' money on the horses Me granny kicked in the door said, "Get a job, you bastard" And I come rollin' into the world, a walkin' talkin'...

I remember your eyes from the 12th of July When the sirens were screamin' and the flames lit the sky And you held me so tight, thought you'd never let go 'Til the bullets exploded on the pavement below Then I laid you...

Fatima rises at dawn The hunger like a flame inside her It's the feast of Ramadan And her father's been praying for hours He wears his disapproval In a silence, cold but hysterical Saw her last night with that...

When first I came to New York town, my eyes were all aglow To see the lights on Broadway, the scrapers rimmed with snow I fell in with some Belfast boys, I whiled the nights away Getting' drunk and stoned on the...

Darlin, darlin' you've put up with so much Betrayed by your leaders, abandoned by your church I've watched you suffer, now you're older than your years But you still look beautiful, though you're fightin' back the...

D'ya remember back in the Five Points When the fire was in the air And the streets were hot as the hob of hell And the bodies was everywhere Then ould Johnny jumped up on a burnin' plank He roared out to the sky...

As I roved out one May morning On down by old Times Square I met a sportin' lady Sweet Nancy was her name She said "Me dearest darlin' You're so young and you smell so sweet But you'll age 10 years in 20 days down...