Christy Moore – Joxer Goes To Stuggart lyrics
IT WAS IN THE YEAR OF '88 AND THE LOVELY MONTH OF JUNE
WHEN GADFLIES WERE SWARMING AND DOGS HOWLING AT THE MOON
WITH ROSARY BEADS AND SANDWICHES FOR STUTTGART WE BEGAN
JOXER PACKED HIS GERMAN PHRASE BOOK AND JUMPLEADS FOR THE VAN.
SOME OF THE LADS HAS NEVER BEEN AWAY FROM HOME BEFORE
TWAS THE FIRST TIME WHACKER PUT HIS FOOT OUTSIDE OF INCHICORE
BEFORE WE LEFT FOR EUROPE WE KNEW WE'D NEED A PLAN
SO WE ALL AGREED THAT JOXER WAS THE MAN TO DRIVE THE VAN.
IN GERMANY THE AUTOBAHN TWAS LIKE THE LONG MILE ROAD
THERE WAS EVERY MAKE OF CAR AND VAN ALL CARRYING THE FULL LOAD
THERE WAS TRANSITS AND HI-ACES AND AN OLD BEDFORD FROM TRALEE
WITH THE ENGINE OVERHEATING FROM LONG HAULING DUTY FREE.
THERE WAS FANS FROM BALLYFERMOT, BALLYBOUGH AND BALLYMUN
ON THE JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME AND THE CRAIC WAS NINETY-ONE.
JOXER MET A GERMANS DAUGHTER ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER RHINE
AND HE TOLD HER SHE'D BE WELCOME IN BALLYFERMOT ANY TIME.
AS SOON AS WE FOUND STUTTGART WE GOT THE WAGONS IN A RING
SEAN OG GOT OUT THE BANJO PETER PLAYED THE MANDOLIN
THERE WAS FANS THERE FROM EVERYWHERE ATTRACTED BY THE SOUND
OF THE FIRST FLEADH CEOIL IN EUROPE, AND JOXER PASSED THE FLAGON ROUND
BUT THE SESSION IT ENDED WHEN WE'D FINISHED OFF THE STOUT
THE AIR MATTRESSED INFLTED AND THE SLEEPING BAGS ROLLED OUT
AS ONE BY ONE WE FELL ASLEEP JOXER HAD A DREAM
HE DREAMT HIMSELF AND JACK CHARLTON SET DOWN TO PICK THE TEAM.
JOXER DREAMT THEY BOTH AGREED ON PACKIE BONNER STRAIGHT AWAY
AND THAT MORAN, WHEALAN AND MCGRATH WERE CERTAINLY TO PLAY
BUT TEMPERS THEY BEAGAN OT RISE AND PATIENCE WEARING THIN
JACK WANTED CASCARINO BUT JOXER WANTED QUINN
THE DREAM TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE, JOXER STUCK THE HEAD ON JACK
WHO WANTED TO BRINK JOHNNY GILES AND EAMONN DUNPHY BACK
THE COCK CREW IN THE MORNING IT CREW BOTH LOUD AND SHRILL
AND JOXER WOKE UP IN HIS SLEEPING BAG MANY MILES FROM ARBOUR HILL
THE NEXT MORNING NONE OF THE EXPERTS GAVE US THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE
THEY SAID THE ENGLISH TEAM WOULD LEAD US ON A MERRY DANCE
WITH THEIR UNION JACKS ALL THEM ENGLISH FANS FOR VICTORY THEY WERE SET
UNTIL RAY HOUGHTON GOT THE BALL AND HE STUCK IT IN THE NET
WHOOO HOOO!
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IS HISTORY BROUGHT TEARS TO MANY EYES
THAT DAY WILL BE THE HIGHLIGHT OF MANY PEOPLES LIVES
JOXER CLIMBED RIGHT OVER THE NET AND THE LAST TIME HE WAS SEEN
WAS ARM IN ARM WITH JACK CHARLTON SINGING REVENGE FOR SKIBEREEN
NOW WHACKERS BACK IN INCHICORE HE'S LIVIN WITH HIS MAM
AND JACK CHARLTON HAS BEEN PROCLAIMED AND HONORARY IRISH MAN
LISTEN.. DO YOU REMEMBER THE GERMANS DAUGHTER FROM THE BANKS OF THE RIVER RHINE??
DIDNT SHE SHOW UP IN BALLYFERMOT LAST WEEK AND.....
DE DO DO DOO.....