Dermot Kelly (RIP) written & sung story of Limerick's 1973 Liam MacCarthy winning campaign!
Crescent Records' 45RPM vinyl - B side is a song called John Riley!
Better quality audio will follow in due course.
Hat tip to MikeF for digging this up!
Up Limerick.
Lyrics
Come all you loyal Irish men and listen to me now
I'll tell you of the hurlers that come from Limerick town
Thirty years or more, me boys, no All-Ireland crown
But '73, believe you me, they really won renown
Chorus:
Shout, boys, hooray, this is Limerick's day
Richie Bennis, Hartigan, Foley too, will play
Blondy Cregan, Eamon Grimes, they never will give up
Until we have by Shannon-side the Liam MacCarthy Cup!
Tipp said they would bate us, in Thurles '73
With Keating in the forwards, we could not disagree
'Twas fast and fierce and furious, the hurling of the day
But Limerick had the bonfire set alight by Neddy Rea
Chorus
September, we were in Croke Park, it really was the test
The black and amber from the Nore, put terror in the breast
They hit as hard as marble but shure they should have known
That marble from Kilkenny couldn't shift the Treaty Stone
Chorus
Soon, we'll be back again, All-Ireland day once more
The lovely green of Shannon, the amber of the Nore
We'll fight 'em fair and honest, fight hard for every ball
And Limerick will be champions, the finest of them all
Chorus
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16 окт 2024
