The Warrior’s Code
Dropkick Murphys
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Your Spirit’s Alive
02 : 20
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The Warrior’s Code
02 : 29
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Captain Kelly’s Kitchen
02 : 48
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The Walking Dead
02 : 07
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Sunshine Highway
03 : 22
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Wicked Sensitive Crew
02 : 59
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The Burden
02 : 55
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Citizen C.I.A.
01 : 28
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The Green Fields of France
04 : 45
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Take It and Run
02 : 44
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I’m Shipping Up to Boston
02 : 33
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The Auld Triangle
02 : 41
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Last Letter Home
03 : 32
14
Tessie
04 : 15
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Track Lyrics
Captain Kelly’s Kitchen Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Come single guy and gal unto me pay attention
Don't ever fall in love, it's the devil's own invention
For once he fell in love with a maiden so bewitching
Miss Henrietta Bell down in Captain Kelly's kitchen
[Refrain]
With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie
[Verse 2]
At the age of seventeen I apprenticed to a grocer
Not far from Stephen's Green where Miss Henri used to go sir
Her manners were sublime she set my heart a-twitchin'
When she invited me to a party in the kitchen
[Refrain]
With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie
[Verse 3]
Sunday was the day that they were to have their flare-up
He dressed himself quite gay, I frizzed and oiled my hair up
The Captain had no wife and he had gone a-fishin'
She groped me on the stairs beneath the old man's kitchen
[Refrain]
With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie
[Verse 4]
Her arms around my waist she slyly hinted marriage
When to the door in haste came Captain Kelly's carriage
Her eyes were full of hate and poison she was spittin'
The Captain kicked the door in and stormed into the kitchen
[Refrain]
With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie
[Verse 5]
When the Captain came downstairs he saw my situation
In spite of all his prayers he was marched off to the station
For him they'd take no bail, to get home I was itchin'
He had to tell the tale how I came into the kitchen
[Refrain]
With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie
[Verse 6]
I said she did invite me, but she gave flat denial
For assault she did indict me and I was sent for trial
She swore he'd robbed her house in spite of all her screechin'
I got six months hard for his courtin' in the kitchen
[Refrain]
With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie
Sunshine Highway Lyrics
7 ContributorsSunshine Highway LyricsYeah, me and my girl we're acting up again all right
She ain't much of a looker, she can handle her Paraldehyde
You were up all night at the Captain's Table
Drinking Tango and gin by the old piano
Playing cards and smoking cigars 'til the sun came up
Or was it going down for the night?
Take another ride on the sunshine highway
Take another ride try to turn it around
Take another ride down the sunshine highway
Take another ride try to turn it around tonight
Drop me off, sign me in, clean me up and let me out
Man that nurse is a bitch, this sucks, she says my jug ain't allowed
I've had my share of Mt. Pleasant messiahs
Wearing slippers and robes, trying to bum my smokes
I'm gonna Thorazine shuffle straight out that door
Head to the farm and find me a cure
Take another ride on the sunshine highway
Take another ride try to turn it around
Take another ride down the sunshine highway
Take another ride try to turn it around tonight
Tonight, yeah yeah yeah
I’m gonna make it right
Take another ride on the sunshine highway
Take another ride try to turn it around
Take another ride down the sunshine highway
Take another ride try to turn it around tonight
Cause I’m gonna be the one
To take another ride, take another ride
Wicked Sensitive Crew Lyrics
5 ContributorsWicked Sensitive Crew LyricsWell it's all gone to hell now, the wimps have gangs
Pop punk tough guys with neck tattoos?
Well if you guys are hard then I'd rather be soft
Man I gotta find me some seriously sensitive dudes
Hey! Ho! Hey!
You gotta shake hands with your feelings
In the Wicked Sensitive Crew
In Pittsburgh they called us closed minded
But we know that's simply not true
Yeah we're touchy, feely, sensitive guys
I ain't ashamed I cried when Mickey died in Rocky II
In Sydney they misunderstood us
They called us thugs and mean-spirited types
Yeah we might not be Swedish, and we sure ain't vegan
But do thugs have posters on their bedroom wall
Of the dude from the Darkness in a creepy meat suit
Zippered so low you can practically...
("God that's gross!" "What? It's cool")
Hey! Ho! Hey!
You gotta shake hands with your feelings
In the Wicked Sensitive Crew
I don't know nothing about no meat suit
But I'll tell you there's one town that's ahead of the times
Man, they know what's up for sure
You see it's home to the godfather of love
The bald little man who started it all
One Teddy "Huggybear" Etoll
Hey! Ho! Hey!
You gotta shake hands with your feelings
We've got a big hug waiting for you
Hey! Ho! Hey!
You gotta shake hands with your feelings
In the Wicked Sensitive Crew
The Burden Lyrics
4 ContributorsThe Burden LyricsHe came from nothing he tried them all
You gotta live low before you see them fall
Always a loser he lost his shine
They had no idea what kept the beast alive
But Franky's gonna be alright
Yeah Franky's gonna be alright
They said he was broken never coming back
But Franky's gonna be alright
He swore to show them outlast them all
And someday they would see him standing tall
He'd never give in, no not back down
I hope they never give up on his sound
'Cause Franky's gonna be alright
Yeah Franky's gonna be alright
They said he was old and he couldn't hold a tune
But I think he's gonna be alright
'Cause Franky's gonna be alright
Yeah Franky's gonna be alright
They said they'd be placing roses on his grave
But I think he's gonna be alright
Franky don't give up on yourself you heard the voice inside
(Yeah, don't give up on yourself)
Franky don't give up on yourself only you can save your life
(Yeah, don't give up on yourself)
Franky don't give up on yourself you heard the voice inside
(Yeah, don't give up on yourself)
Franky don't give up on yourself only you can save your life
(Yeah, don't give up on yourself)
He came from nothing, he tried them all
You gotta live low before you see them fall
Always a loser he lost his shine
You had no idea what kept the beast alive
But Franky's gonna be alright
Yeah Franky's gonna be alright
They said they'd be placing roses on his grave
But I think he's gonna be alright
They said they'd be placing roses on his grave
But Franky's gonna be alright
The Green Fields of France Lyrics
15 ContributorsThe Green Fields of France LyricsThe Dropkick Murphys cover “No Man’s Land” by Eric Bogle for this track off of The Warrior’s Code. It is one of the most notable anti-war songs in history.Oh how do you do, young Willie McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Well I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean
Or Willie McBride, was is it slow and obscene?
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And though you died back in 1916
To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen
Or are you a stranger without even a name?
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
In an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
The sun shining down on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard that's still no man's land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation were butchered and damned
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
And I can't help but wonder oh Willie McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
Did you really believe that this war would end wars
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing and dying it was all done in vain
Oh Willie McBride it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the last post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
The Auld Triangle Lyrics
9 ContributorsThe Auld Triangle LyricsThe Auld Triangle was first performed in 1954 as part of the play The Quare Fellow.
The song is used to introduce the play, a story about the occurrences in a Mountjoy Prison (where playwright Brendan Behan… Read More A hungry feeling, came o'er me stealing
And the mice were squealing in my prison cell
To begin the morning, the water boiling
Get up out of bed boy, and clean up your cell
And the auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
On a fine spring evening, the lag lay dreaming
And the seagulls were squealing high above the wall
Oh the day was dying and the wind was sighing
As I lay there crying in my prison cell
And the auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
Oh the screw was peeping and the lag was sleeping
As he lay there weeping for his poor gal
And the auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
In the female prison there are seventy women
And I wish to God it was with them that I did dwell
And the auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
And the auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
Last Letter Home Lyrics
4 ContributorsLast Letter Home LyricsHello there my dearest love
Today I write to you about our sons
The boys start school today
They're the spitting image of you in every way
Hey son it's Dad
I hope this letter finds you well out of harm's way
We saw the news today it frightened your Mom
Now all she does is pray
If I lead will you follow?
Will you follow if I lead?
Hey Melissa it's me, don't be afraid
I'm in good hands, I'm gonna be home soon
It's time to watch the children grow up
I wanna be more than a voice on the phone
Thanks Ma, I got your package today
I love "The Fields Of Athenry"
I swear I want 'em to play that song on the pipes
At my funeral when I die
If I lead will you follow?
Will you follow if I lead?
I stand alone in the distance
And the foreground slowly moves
If I lead will you follow?
Will you follow if I lead?
"We regret to inform you that on January 28th
Sgt. Andrew Farrar died while serving his country
In the Al-Anbar province of Iraq
Words cannot convey our sorrow"
If I lead will you follow?
Will you follow if I lead?
When there's nothing on the horizon
You've got nothing left to prove
If I lead will you follow?