Текст песни Thin Lizzy - Shades of a Blue Orphanage
Thin Lizzy - Shades of a Blue Orphanage слова песни
When we were kids he used to go over the back wall into old dans scrapyardInto the snooker hall where most us kids were barredAn into the roxy and the stella where film stars starredThats where me and hopalong an roy rogers got drunk and jarredAnd we might have been the saviour of the men,The captured captain in the devils demon denAnd we might have been the magic politician in some kind of tricky positionLike an old, old, old master musician we kept on wishinWe was headed for the number one hit country again{chorus}And its trueTrue blueIrish blueAnd its trueTrue blueAnd sometimes it reminds me of youTheres an old photograph of dan that I wish you could-a seenOf him and the boys posed, standing in st. stephens greenYa see, they were a part of the great freedom dreamBut they were caught and detained and are locked inside the frameOf the photographAnd he might have been the clever con, the good samaritan, the rassclaut manAn he might have been the loaded gun, the charlatan of the tap dancin fanBut like an old pioneer from outer afghanistan,Headed for the number one hit country again{repeat chorus}Old dan in a raincoat hums the very, very, very special notesOf a long lost favorite melodyIt reminds him of a love affair when he was young and did not careAnd how he parted so soft, so saddenAnd he might have been the laughing cavaliero, the wise old commancheroOw, the desparate desparado, the good looking randolph valentino,The gigolo from glasgowBut like an old, old hunter of the female buffalo,Hes headed for the number one hit country again{repeat chorus}And its trueTrue blueIrish blueTrue blueIrish blueAnd its trueIts so trueUmmm, its trueI swear Ive said itSwear Ive said itI swear I said itI swear its trueAnd its trueTrue blueOh, its irish blueAnd its true...