Dr. Strangely Strange - Donnybrook Fair lyrics

Mercard taught the leathered looking king Plugged in his amplifier and began to sing And Henry Grattan standing in the rain again Down on Dawson street waiting for a number ten To take him to donnybrook fair He’s got some business to do there Oh it is possible to do anything Dance among the queens Or play chess with the high king Thomas Wentworth standing underneath a silken sail Turns to the unicorn and asks him how he’s failed And Deirdre of the sorrows catching crabs on the seashore Turns to the unicorn and asks him what he’s for Well I’m for Donnybrook fair When I’ll get the time I’ll see you there Pick a golden apple from the heart of the sun I can a**ure you that it is very easily done Joseph married Lancard with a sword in his right hand Walking to the gpo to play with the band And Patrick Pearse comes squinting through 1916 Turns to the unicorn and asks him how he’s been Well I’ve been down In Donnybrook fair How come I didn’t see you there? Oh it is possible to do anything Dance among the queens Or play chess with the high king The mighty cretin show-band led the pike-men from the rear And nobody sees the unicorn quietly standing there And the long-faced leading singer tries to imitate Jim Reeves Ah the unicorn just shakes his head but has fobbed a waste at least He’s gone down to Donnybrook fair When I get the time I’ll see him there Pick a golden apple from the heart of the sun I can a**ure you that it is very easily done But the marquis and me, in cloud-stepping shoes We danced away wherever we choose All good people you must stay together Rainbow skirt and the broken feathers Stay down in Donnybrook fair When I’ll get the time I’ll see you there The mocking bird has come to sale He wants to blow your heads away The king of love my shepherd is whose goodness faileth never I nothing lack if I am his and he is mine forever Where streams of living water flow My ransom soul, he leadeth And where the verdant pastures grow With fruit celestial feedeth What will you have? Will you have a pint? I’ll have a pint with you, sir And if somebody doesn’t order soon, We’ll be thrown out of the boozer And so through all the length of days My goodness faileth never Good shepherd, may I sing thy praise Within thy heist forever The king of love, my shepherd, is whose goodness faileth never I nothing lack, if I am his and he is mine forever Amen