- 40 Shades Of Blue
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 fr...
- American Wake
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...
- Black 47
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...
- Black Rose
mr frankie diamond was my best friend we were partners in a business down on c & 7th nothin' ever got this good brother down he was a real live wire in a...
- Blood Wedding
Carlita is waiting down on C & 9th In mantilla and lace And her lover's knife Cries out for revenge But she is silent like a stone And beautiful in her wido...
- Bobby Sands Mp
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 ...
- Brooklyn Girls
Standing in your hallway Kiss your angel hair Hear your old grandmother Recite her immigrant prayer If she knew what you had to do She'd probably kill you first...
- Brooklyn, Goodbye
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 ...
- Change
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 indignatio...
- Czechoslovakia
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...
- Danny Boy
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 ...
- Different Drummer
born on a black monday, me mother screamin' curses me ould lad in the pub losin' money on the horses me granny kicked in the door, said "get a job you bast...
- Fanatic Heart
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 'Ti...
- Fatima
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,...
- Fiona's Song
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 whil...
- Fire Of Freedom
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 ...
- Five Points
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 ju...
- Forty-Deuce
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 ...
- Funky CeÍLÍ (Bridie's Song)
Bridie was teachin' out in Carysfort I was workin' in the bank 2 paycheques every Friday And a Morris Minor out the back But I was mad for jigs and reels D...
- Funky Ceili (kay-lee) Bridie's Song
Bridie was teachin' out in Carysfort I was workin' in the bank 2 pay checks every friday And a Morris Minor out in the back But I was mad for jigs and reels Dri...
- Go Home Paddy
(Irish lyrics) Mo chreach ghéarchúiseach Ná rabhas ar do chúlaibh nuair lámhadh an púdar, go ngeobhainn é im...
- Green Suede Shoes
Six months out on the road Don't know if I'm ever goin' home Out there in the middle of America Out of my head, feelin' hysterical Wishin' that I was back in Ne...
- Her Dear Old Donegal
Now that she's so far away from her dear old hills of Donegal I wonder does she ever think of me at all On that wet Monday I drove her down to Shannon We dra...
- James Connolly
Marchin' down O'Connell Street with the Starry Plough on high There goes the Citizen Army with their fists raised in the sky Leading them is a mighty man with a...
- Livin' In America
Oh, it's 6 o'clock and it's time to rock And me head is beatin' like a drum In the cold grey light, ah I feel like shite And I can't remember last night's fu...
- Losin' It
Chuckie said "I don't know what's goin' on I'm down on my knees and I'm ah uh oh losin' it Been up and down this New York town Lookin' for a break, just...
- Maria's Wedding
Oh Maria, I'm so sorry I wrecked your wedding You've just got to believe me But just the thought of you takin' your clothes off for that jerk Oh, it got me drin...
- My Love Is In New York
Joined the service out of school in the year of '69 When the Doors were ridin' on the storm, Hendrix was alive And before I could blink an eye, I was sent to Vi...
- Mychal
In New York City I made my home I loved the streets, the very stones Cared for my comrades, cherished my friends Loved all beginnings, had no time for ends A ci...
- New York Town
Too much pain, too much sorrow Eyes bone dry, get on with our tomorrows I wake up in a pool of tears and sweat Cryin' for some friends I ain't never even met Th...
- New York, New York 10009
Got into town on a Saturday night With a Fender guitar and I checked out the sights And I drank my way down to the Lower East Side Coz I was nuts about Thund...
- Oh Maureen
Maureen got married to a sanitation worker She's livin' out in Brooklyn with her mother in law And when her old man's sleepin' Maureen comes creepin' down to...
- On The Banks Of The Hudson
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...
- Orphan Of The Storm
Get off the plane at Kennedy Got a dream in your heart Though it's down in your boots Got a hundred quid in your pocket And a couple of addresses In Woodside an...
- Our Lady of The Bronx
Oh Mary Mary, I think I'm crackin' up Everthing is fallin' apart My arms are empty and you have just put A fourty-five slug through my heart I've been riding th...
- Paul Robeson (Born To Be Free)
You can wreck my name, vilify me, stretch me on the rack But I won't bow down to any man, be he white or be he black Take away my passport, refuse to let me t...
- Road To Ruin
the strobe was pulsin' in the afterhours the booze was flowin' free when i first saw you across that room on down by houston street you were wrapped around a wi...
- Rockin' The Bronx
I got a job in a band called Black 47 I was doin' nothin' special after 11 Oh we learned some tunes and wrote some songs And we bought ourselves a drum machi...
- Rory
Hey Rory, you're off to London Playin' the blues with a band called Taste Gonna hit the big time? You better - you're the best On your night you could even leav...
- Sam Hall
Oh me name it is Sam Hall - chimney sweep chimney sweep Oh me name it is Sam Hall - chimney sweep Oh me name it is Sam Hall and I hate you one and all And me ne...
- San Patricio Brigade
I came to this country an innocent boy From the green fields of Galway When the hunger was clawin' at me Came for redemption, respect and regard All I got was n...
- Staten Island Baby
Your old man, he's in Homicide - NYPD He looks at me suspiciously Your momma she's a psychiatric nurse in the city Works in Bellevue and I look kinda familiar? ...
- The Big Fellah
Mo chara is mo lao thu! (My friend and my calf) Is aisling trí néallaibh (A vision in dream) Do deineadh aréir dom (Was revealed to me l...
- Time To Go
saw something in the paper just the other day, it was all about a band and the music that they play black 47 advocates violence, musical guerillas in their t...
- To Late To Turn Back
Wait until dawn The streets will be cool and clean again Then it's time to go downstairs And meet the man He'll be sittin' in a limo with a gun in his hand ...
- Vinegar Hill
The sun was settin' the rocks on fire The fields blisterin' with the heat When the militia came marchin' through our town Knockin' sparks off the little streets...
- Voodoo City
Paddy came down to Voodoo City Met a lady on Bourbon Street She was dark, she was beautiful Swept that boy right off his feet Runnin' from the man in New Yo...
- Walk All The Days (Black 47 Version)
i never figured it would end up this way as i lay on the ground, and silently prayed for god's intervention, my soul to save who the hell is the saint of lost c...
- Who Killed Bobby Fuller_
It's Saturday night on the Lower East Side I'm sittin' here contemplatin' suicide I just got mugged down in Tompkins Square When a skinny-assed junkie stuck ...
- Wonderful Life
Here I go out to sea again The sunshine fills my hair And dreams hang in the air Gulls in the sky and in my blue eyes You know it feels unfair There's magic eve...