Christy croons (Ride On - Christy Moore)

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Product:	Ride On - Christy Moore
Date:	04/09/02 (582 review reads)
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As I sit here at the computer while I listen to Christy Moore singing on CD I was inspired to write.
I am listening to ride on, it's making me feel wistful a little sad but also cheerful, it is a mixture of emotions. Christy sings some beautiful songs
Love songs, love for his woman, love of his country, about war and strife. Some bring a tear to the eye another a smile to the lips.
Here I am sat here singing along
Ooh listoonvarna, listdoonvarna everyone needs a break climb a mountain swim in the lake
Sean Doherty goes down for the rose of Tralee
But I like my music in the open air (so do I Christy)

I saw heard Christy at Cambridge folk festival several years ago I can't remember when.
Anyway I think Ride On is my favourite cd of his, or it might be Ordinary man.
I think I would like to wander among the Wicklow hills.
de on Christy sings about The city of Chicago and how in
1847 was the year it all began,
Deadly pains of hunger
drove a million from the land
Their motive was not greed
A voyage of survival


Then he sings the beautiful ride on
I feel the agony it rips at my heart as he sings

Ride on, see, you.
I could never go with you no
matter how I wanted too?

I turn my face to an empty space
Where once you used to be
And look for a smile to light the night
Through a teardrop in my eye?


Oh the agony of being parted from a loved one Christy it hurt's

Then he goes on to sing
a tribute to Frank Ryan, Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too, who
fought and died with others beneath the Spanish sun



He sings a song of wandering Angus
Followed by Mc Ilhatton

Mc Ilhatton you blurt we need
you
cry a million shaking men
where are your sacks of barley
may your likes be seen again heres a jig to the man
a reel to the drop
and a swing
to the girl



he loves
may your fiddle play and poitin cure
your company up above

?A bottle of the stuff is only 30 buck's

And then he sings of Lisdooonvarna stirs in me a longing to have been there drinking stout and listening to the music and the songs. A cheerful song uplifting

Then he sings of wandering the Wicklow hills in
The Autumn evening filled with copper shades

As I listen I am there walking with him.

Then Sonnys dream.
sometimes he wonders what his life might have been

Don't we all sometimes

Then a song of a dying soldier.

I don't belong here I don't want to die here. Oh no

Then a song of El Salvador (dying again).

Then he sings Back home in Derry
A song of those who
In 1803 left
The sweet town of Derry
For Australia bound


Then he sings that
The least we can do is make the world a better place
Not just for a few
But for all the human race

Show some love and
Compassion,
when people are feeling low.

I totally agree with that sentiment Christy.



Sadly I believe I will not hear Christy Moore sing live gain, I read somewhere he suffers from a heart complaint and has been advised by DR's not to perform live again. Hopefully he is able to produce record's/cd?' has anyone else heard any thing?

Thank you for reading, that was good timing my CD has just got to the end

The least we can do is make the world a better place; with that thought I will leave you

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