Christy Moore - Derby Day lyrics

Bishop walked in circles inside
The cloistered wall
Pondering in solitude on leather soles
Just outside the palace down
On his wretched knees
Husband begged for whiskey beneath
The lilac trees

Over in the courthouse Judge sat
Wrestling with a yawn
Wondering would the gardener pluck the
Daisies off the lawn
Annoyed and irritated by a
"guilty" woman's whine
Poor wife pleading innocence to
An alleged crime

Next day was a Derby Day
Down on the Curragh plains
Dry old men of cloth and silk
Watched the sport of kings
Meanwhile back down the town a
Husband battered down the door
Beat his wife around the face and
Kicked her to the floor
Husband took his own life, wife passed away
Judge donned his veil of sorrow
Put the children into care
They became God's little orphans
Learned to serve and to obey
To be unobtrusive when Bishop knelt to pray