Christy Moore - The Ballad of Ruby Walsh lyrics

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 Smurfit's 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 augmentation
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 hit's 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
The Ballad Of Ruby Walsh
With The Guitar Chords limerick Junction
Motion galway Races

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 an 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 Smurfit's 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 long-neck 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 lepping the jumps be Gad
She's like a bally dancer
Over the next she hit's the
Front the nothing is 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