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Essentially James Joyce

from Essentially James Joyce by The Dublin City Rounders

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In Georgie orgy Dublin, sensation and sin
Nora was a chambermaid at the Lincoln's Inn
Joyce was playing his guitar and learning how to sing
He'll never be McCormac, he'll never meet the king

He'll betray his mother, he'll defy his god
He will mock his lessers while his betters get the nod
In dreams he'll be in brothels, while flouring his cod

Licentiousness and vice
Essentially James Joyce

For love he'll pay the price
Essentially James Joyce

A breakfast made for Molly, the day begins in ernest
The fiery coal that makes the tea resembles Vulcan's furnace
While memories of lovers past flicker through her mind
The slavish man with a frying pan alights to pull the blind

To second guess her thinking would burn you to a crust
The day is calling, you'd better go as you know you must

For love he'll pay the price
Essentially James Joyce

He has no other choice
Essentially James Joyce

A younger man now waking, down at Sandy Cove
Shaking taunts from braggers, his body aches to rove
He takes his leave with the smell of the sea
To Dublin he will go

History is cruel to forget so many lives
The streets are named for kings and queens, not for men and wives
In exile like Lucifer and blinded in one eye
The shepherd leads us nowhere so nowhere we shall stride

Around the map he made us
Around and 'round we go

'Til Molly shouts "Yes yes, oh yes."
Essentially James Joyce

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from Essentially James Joyce, released May 23, 2018
Words by David Virgin, music by David Virgin and The Dublin City Rounders

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If The Dublin City Rounders were a dog it would be a pink bulldog with a cowboy hat, a studded leather collar and sporting a sleeveless denim jacket.

Two Irish brothers, one mind and a single beating heart made of rock n roll gold.
Whether playing a Stephen Foster esque song from the 1880’s or a brand new self penned classic you can’t take your eyes, or ears, off these lads!
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