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Thread #17414   Message #168403
Posted By: Big Mick
25-Jan-00 - 10:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mo Ghile Mear & Changing Your Demeanour
Subject: Lyr Add: CHANGE IN YOUR DEMEANOR^^
I love that version of Mo Ghile Mear, regardless of whether it is faithful to the Jacobite song or not.

CHANGE IN YOUR DEMEANOR
Words and music by Kevin Conneff

Here we are, we come to call,
the pipes and flutes and fiddles and all.
In case of death we even brought a keener.
So if you're glum and feeling down,
just be like us and act the clown
and soon there'll be a change in your demeanor.

(scat sing)
Rum tum dee doo-dle doe,
hub-a-dee die dee doo-dle do,
Rum tum dee doo-dle doe dee doo dum.
Rum tum dee doo-dle doe,
hub-a-dee die dee doo-dle do,
Rum tum dee doo-dle doe dee doo dum.

I put me money on a horse today
For with the race he'd run away
Or so a friend who's in and knows he told me
Twenty lengths ahead at most
He proudly cantered past the post.
But woe is me, he lost the blooming jockey

Now all the places I have seen
From China to the Caribbean
Are all across the goal compared to Ireland.
From Bally Castle to Traline
The Corrib to the Liffey
There's nowhere else on earth quite like this Island

In Hollywood I long to be,
Not on that place across the sea,
But in County Wicklow, Ireland's lovely garden,
Where no pretenders will you find
But decent people roamin' and
The fox and friendly sheep into the bargain.

For your ills don't take a pill
But take a tender o'er the hills,
And listen to the lark's lovely warning
In the evening in the company
With music in the key of E
You'll be dancing Kerry sets until the morning.