[00:00:02] Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:00:06] Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:00:10] Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:00:14] Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:00:21] How's it goin' there everybody [00:00:23] From Cork New York Dundalk Gortahork and Glenamaddy [00:00:27] Here we are in the County Clare [00:00:29] It's a long long way from here to there [00:00:32] There's the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher [00:00:35] The Tulla and the Kilfenora [00:00:37] Miko Russell Doctor Bill [00:00:39] Willy Clancy Noel Hill [00:00:41] Flutes and fiddles everywhere [00:00:43] If it's music you want [00:00:45] You should go to Clare [00:00:47] Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:00:52] Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:00:56] Everybody needs a break [00:00:58] Climb a mountain or jump in a lake [00:01:01] Some head off to exotic places [00:01:03] Others go to the Galway Races [00:01:05] Mattie goes to the South of France [00:01:09] Jim to the dogs Peter to the dance [00:01:11] A cousin of mine goes potholing [00:01:13] A cousin of heres loves Joe Dolan [00:01:15] Summer comes around each year [00:01:17] We go there and they come here [00:01:18] Some jet off to Frijiliana [00:01:20] Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:01:26] Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:01:32] But I always go to Lisdoonvarna [00:01:34] I always leave on a Thursday night [00:01:36] With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight [00:01:39] I like to hit Lisdoon [00:01:40] In around Friday afternoon [00:01:41] This gives me time to get me tent up and my gear together [00:01:43] I don't need to worry about the weather [00:01:46] Ramble in for a pint of stout [00:01:47] You'd never know who'd be hangin' about [00:01:49] There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin [00:01:52] And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn [00:01:55] And there's Adam Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald [00:01:56] Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World [00:01:59] Finbarr Charlie and Jim Hand [00:02:01] And they drinkin' pints to bate the band [00:02:05] Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:02:10] Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:02:14] The multitudes they flocked in throngs [00:02:16] To hear the music and the songs [00:02:18] Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans [00:02:20] With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans [00:02:22] Mighty craic Loads of frolics [00:02:27] Pioneers and alcoholics [00:02:29] PLAC SPUC and the FCA [00:02:31] Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA [00:02:34] Hairy chests and milk-white thighs [00:02:36] Mickey dodgers in disguise [00:02:38] Mc Graths O'Briens Pippins Coxs [00:02:40] Massage parlours in horse boxes [00:02:42] There's amhráns bodhráns amadáns [00:02:45] Arab sheiks Hindu Sikhs Jesus freaks [00:02:52] RTE are makin' tapes takin' breaks and throwin' shapes [00:02:55] This is heaven this is hell [00:02:58] Who cares Who can tell [00:02:59] Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:03:00] Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:03:06] A 747 for Jackson Browne [00:03:08] They had to build a special runway just to get him down [00:03:11] Before the Chieftains could start to play [00:03:12] Seven creamy pints came out on a tray [00:03:15] Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan [00:03:17] Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin' [00:03:19] Clannad were playin' "Harry's Game" [00:03:21] Christy was singin' "Nancy Spain" [00:03:23] Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields [00:03:25] Together singin' "The Four Green Fields" [00:03:27] Van the Man and Emmy Lou [00:03:30] Moving Hearts and Planxty too [00:03:32] Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:03:36] Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:03:41] Everybody needs a break [00:03:42] Climb a mountain or jump in a lake [00:03:45] Sean Doherty goes to the Rose of Tralee [00:03:48] Oliver J Flanagan goes swimming in the Holy Sea [00:03:51] But I like the music and the open air [00:03:53] So every Summer I go to Clare [00:03:55] Coz Woodstock Knock nor the Feast of Cana [00:03:57] Can hold a match to Lisdoonvarna [00:03:59] Oh Lisdoonvarn [00:04:03] Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoon Lisdoonvarna [00:04:07] Oh Lisdoonvarn