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Aboard a worn and ragged ship alone I sat as looming death
gripped every moment of my slowly fading life

A captain lost at sea, a crew of starving men who longed to
be among their friends and family as certain doom drew nigh

Then through the swirling, black abyss a distant figure
formed among the mist, a merchant ship, it's sails like the
wings of angels flowed

But our senses had long withered and desperation like
a serpent slithered round my heart, I raised my voice
and screamed a harrowing command.

The captain gave orders to attack
the merchant ship's cannons fired back

down down, the ship and crew did go
into the dark and murky depths below

The cannon fire like raging thunder struck the hull and
tore the boards asunder, from the deck I fell into a deep
and murky hell

I couldn't swim for code forbade
but a plank by chance my way did wade
I grasped it tight and watched in horror
the sinking of my ship "Lenore"

Then from below the waves,
a pair of green eyes caught my gaze,
like brilliant pearls amidst a sea of golden
curls they gleamed.

The figure now before me, a maiden of unrivaled beauty
kissed my cracked lips and whispered "I can show
you things you've never dreamed."

The captain he closed his weary eyes
awaiting his cold and cruel demise

sleep took him and he was washed ashore
on a land that he'd never seen before

When consciousness returned to me I found myself alone
on what appeared to be a desert island's calm and sandy beach

but far inland a city rose up high, it's spiral towers
reaching to the sky, it's structures dreamlike in their
strange design.

and then I knew it well, the maiden from the sea
did surely dwell within that city's timeless walls
and otherworldly halls of eldritch lore

Indeed I found her there among a coven
each as fair who spoke to me these chilling words that damned
my soul forever more.

Dear captain your life it at it's end
your spirit, it never shall ascend

for all of time here with us you'll dwell
in our city that mortal men call Hell.

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from Best Boots Forward (The Best Of The Dublin City Rounders Past, Present & Future​!​), released December 19, 2015

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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! ... more

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