Christy Moore - Sodom & Begorra lyrics

There's Bethlehem and Cheltenham
Lourdes and Limerick Junction
Medjugorje or a rub of the extreme unction
Good people climb Croagh Patrick with
Serenity on their faces
But, I found my salvation
Below at the Galway Races

Clergymen dressed up like men and
Models home from London
Whallup and how's she cuttin' John?
Begod sure only Middlin'
Gamblers with big wads of notes
Going mad to gamble
Na boys' isteach as inverin
There just to take a ramble

Helen Lucy smells the mattress and
Reviews the hairy bacon
Says Mickey Finn to Galligan
Hey Peter what are you takin'? Shish kebabs
Kinvara crabs as people stuff their faces
Others couldn't eat to save their lives
Below at the Galway Races
Its there you'll see gentility and
Sheep dressed up like mutton
Double barrelled names with more
Airs than old melodeons
The talk is all of tillage and
Of silage and con acre
I tell you scraws and bottoms would
Be closer to the mark sir

Sir John Muck Savidge-Smythe is there
With Smurfit's and O'Reilly's
Owners and trainers, stable boys and jockeys
With silk around their arses getting
Up on rich mens' horses
Not to mention wives and daughters
And marriages and divorces

There's pontoon
Twenty five and there's savage games of poker
There's them would lay their lives on two
Flies walking up the wall sure
There's wise men from the east
Making eyes at go-go dancers
And ministers of state accepting
Drinks from terrible chancers

Salthill after dark
Is like Sodom and Gomorra
There's people doing things tonight
That they'll regret tomorrow
There's folk and trad, they're disco mad
Karaoke and set dances
And people who've seen better days
Looking to take their chances

They're under starters orders and
Michael O'Hehir is waiting
Lester's up on the favourite and
She'll surely take some beating
Necks are craned and eyes are strained
There's fear upon their faces
There's agony and ecstasy below
At the Galway Races

Bethlehem and Cheltenham
Lourdes and Limerick Junction
Medjugorje or a rub of extreme unction
Good people climb Croagh Patrick with
Serenity on their faces
But, I found my salvation
Below at the Galway Races