Chords with lyrics
Verse 1:
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He was Lawless by name, Lawless by nature
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He was trouble right from the start
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Hard as nails, runnin' wild through the streets
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He was breakin' his poor mother's heart
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Nature played a trick on Lawless
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And the humour of nature is cruel
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And he grew up as we all had expected him
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Into a dangerous fool
Verse 2:
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He was a hard man, a man for all seasons
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He was always out for a fight
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He couldn't hold drink but still he'd get plastered
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In Clark's every Saturday night
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Strip to the vest and challenge the best
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Until the guards they were called to come fast
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And they'd lock him away for the rest of the day
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And let him out on the Sunday for mass
Verse 3:
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Oh one night he went down to the Ringsend Regatta
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Where he met up with the bould Dolly Platts
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She wasn't exactly what you'd call beauty
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But she was the belle of her flats
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A augmentedA whirlwind romance and Dolly took a flier
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With Lawless she would settle down
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And It was pure coincidence three months before
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There was a yankee destroyer in town
Verse 4:
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And the couple were blessed with one of god's miracles
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Before six months had elapsed
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Dolly gave birth to a nine-pound black baby
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And Lawless was fit to collapse
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She swore she'd never been touched by another
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And Lawless took her at her word
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And the neighbours all say, she's the spit of her father
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and the cuckoo is a wonderful bird.'
Verse 5:
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Oh now Lawless stays in and looks after the family
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While Dolly goes out for the night
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The old gossips all say she's free in her ways
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And its there evil rumours run rife
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When Lawless heard this he waited for Dolly
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In the bridge where the river runs low
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Noone will ever know what happened next
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But Dolly drowned in the Dodder below
Verse 6:
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Some say he's crazy and more say he's evil
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Everyone says that he's mad
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Noone will defend him, he was no angel
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But I'll tell you he wasn't all bad
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They've locked him away for the rest of his natural
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Never again will he see
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Down the back of Ring's End
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There's a lonely child playing
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Where the Liffey flows into the sea
{Outro}
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Down the back of Ring's End
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There's a lonely child playing
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Where the Liffey flows into the sea