Lawless

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He was Lawless by name, Lawless by 
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nature
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He was trouble right from the 
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start
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Hard as nails, runnin' wild through 
the streets
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He was breakin' his poor mother's 
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heart
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Nature played a trick on Lawless
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And the humour of nature is cruel
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And he grew up as we all had 
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expected him
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Into a dangerous fool

[Verse 2]

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He was a hard man, a man for all 
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seasons
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He was always out for a fight
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He couldn't hold drink but still 
he'd get plastered
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In Clark's every Saturday night
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Strip to the vest and challenge the 
best
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Until the guards they were called 
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to come fast
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And they'd lock him away for the 
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rest of the day
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And let him out on the Sunday for 
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mass

[Verse 3]

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Oh one night he went down to the 
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Ringsend Regatta
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Where he met up with the bould 
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Dolly Platts
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She wasn't exactly what you'd call 
beauty
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But she was the belle of her flats
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A whirlwind romance and Dolly took a
 flier
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With Lawless she would settle down
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And It was pure coincidence three
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 months before
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There was a yankee destroyer in town

[Verse 4]

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And the couple were blessed with 
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one of god's miracles
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Before six months had elapsed
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Dolly gave birth to a nine-pound 
black baby
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And Lawless was fit to collapse
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She swore she'd never been touched 
by another
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And Lawless took her at her word
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And the neighbours all say, she's 
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the spit of her father
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and the cuckoo is a wonderful bird.'

[Verse 5]

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Oh now Lawless stays in and looks
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 after the family
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While Dolly goes out for the 
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night
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The old gossips all say she's free 
in her ways
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And its there evil rumours run rife
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When Lawless heard this he waited 
for Dolly
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In the bridge where the river runs 
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low
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Noone will ever know what happened 
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next
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But Dolly drowned in the Dodder 
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below

[Verse 6]

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Some say he's crazy and more say 
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he's evil
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Everyone says that he's mad
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Noone will defend him, he was no 
angel
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But I'll tell you he wasn't all bad
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They've locked him away for the rest
 of his natural
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Never again will he see
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Down the back of Ring's End
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There's a lonely child playing
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Where the Liffey flows into the sea

{Outro}

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Down the back of Ring's End
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There's a lonely child playing
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Where the Liffey flows into the 
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sea