Lyr Req: The Evictions (Pat Gallagher)

Subject: Song Lyrics
From:
Date: 14 Dec 98 - 09:35 AM

I'm looking for the lyrics to, "The Evictions". I'm not sure who wrote the song, but I know it is on The Rusty Razor by Goats Don't Shave.

John Monk

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 14 Dec 98 - 05:47 PM

John, are you making this up?

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From:
Date: 22 Dec 98 - 02:30 PM

NO!

I want the lyrics.

GFYS Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: SteveF
Date: 22 Dec 98 - 03:20 PM

He's not making it up, guys. There really is an Irish/Celtic group called Goats Don't Shave.

Remember when they gave out Grammy's to groups you could identify??

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: SteveF
Date: 22 Dec 98 - 03:34 PM

I'll save you the bother. Here's their hype, copied from their website. I have not tampered with their creative use of the written word.

STOP PRESS!
NEW ALBUM OUT LATE 1998!
Goats Don't Shave deliver what has to be one of the finest and exciting sounds in Celtic Rock.

A truly cult band they have refused to dirty their playing fingers in the distasteful world of marketing hype, niches and target audiences.

Yet on their Irish tour they attracted audiences averaging over 2,000. In the States they pull in even bigger crowds and in the UK their last 40 date tour sold out.

Last year they played main stage slots at all the major festivals including Heineken Music Festival, Glastonbury, Cambridge and Guilford. They also headlined the Murphy's Music Tour two years in a row and have taken centre stage for Guinness and Cafferys throughout Europe.

Goats Don't Shave are the Biz! Energetic and lively with some great songs they never fail to leave an audience satisfied. From fantasy bop along songs to ballads highlighting the effect of domestic violence GDS have in their mists one of the world's most talented young songwriters in Pat Gallagher.

A cult band they may be, but walk into any of the Irish or Celtic pubs in Britain and across the world and all you'll be guaranteed to hear the bands covering many a Goat song including Las Vegas in Donegal, Evictions or Mary Mary.

Check out the sound clip now, or better still buy the CDs or come to a gig.
Why not look around the site while you wait for the clip to download?!

You won't regret it!
Why the name Goats Don't Shave? - Well don't ask, it's something to do with a boozer in a pub in Donnegal and hey they are Irish after all and the Poteen has it's effect!

"Quite Spectacular" Observer

"Kicks acoustic pop up the arse" Time Out

"We're the tinkers band" Pat Gallagher on themselves

"In Ireland Goats Don't Shave are a huge band, It's time the rest of the world caught on"

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Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 22 Dec 98 - 04:35 PM

John,

I can only guess what GFYS means. My sense is I angered you and that was not intentional. 'Tis only that Goats Don't Shave and The Rusty Razor are, well, "unusual" names and I have never heard of either. My comment was to be "good natured fun" at all that. Please accept my apologies.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Dec 98 - 05:48 PM

Click here for a thread that gives the lyrics to another song by this group.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics "The Evictions"
From:
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 10:14 AM

CAN ANYONE HELP ME GET THE LYRISC FOR "THE EVICTIONS" BY
GOATS DONT SHAVE. HAVING PROBLEMS TRYING TO FIND IT.

THANKS

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics "The Evictions"
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 11:13 AM

Subject: Lyr Add: THE EVICTIONS (Pat Gallagher)
From: Effsee
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 11:33 AM

THE EVICTIONS - (Pat Gallagher)
As recorded by Goats Don't Shave on "The Rusty Razor" (1992)

Spoken – "Lo in the wilds of Donegal, where heather bloom is bred,
round lake and cliff, on moor and mean, onto the mountains head.
Our cabin homes, our natal homes our kindred's homes were they.
Lay ruined by the minions of the spoiler of Glenveagh

1. My name it is Sweeney; a father of two sons I am,
A cottier tenant like many a true mountain man.
My wife fell to famine and my heart will never repair,
But worse was to come in the form of a John George Adair.

2. The news in the valley a stranger had bought up the land,
Soon twenty-eight thousand acres he would command,
But we were to learn that the blood in his body ran cold,
For the suffering of the poor was John Adair 's goal.

CHORUS: The hills and the mountains know your name.
The deer even hang their heads in shame.
And even the longest winter's rain
Can't wash away all the suffering and pain
Of the evictions at Derryveagh.

3. You swore on us lies; you had us arrested and jailed
For the murder of Murray your agent, but justice prevailed,
But vengeance was feasting inside of your cold Scottish heart,
So the notice was given, people and land they must part.

4. One morning in April 1861,
Two hundred soldiers, their bayonets shone in the sun.
Led by the sheriff, they marched with the crowbar brigade,
And a widow, six daughters, a son, first homeless were made. CHORUS

Two hundred and forty-four people made homeless that day,
While John Adair's castle was planned for the shores of Loch Veagh,
Some to the poorhouse, some to Australia's shore,
But all said goodbye to a homeland they'd see never more. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Evictions (Pat Gallagher)
From: GUEST,Pattbonn
Date: 20 Feb 19 - 07:04 AM

@Effsee

Fair play to you. I thought someone should thank you for posting the lyrics, even after 15½ years.
So, go raibh maith agat!