Great lyrics fantastic musicianship. So underrated. This track epitomises the two extremes of human achievement. ...the musicianship is the top end....what they are singing about is the bottom end. Saw them in Caernarfon years ago and in Dublin.....this is definitely on my Desert Island discs!
Moving hearts kept us alive & kicking in the baggot. Inn twice a week every week,for 2 years solid,class first time they played Irish ways & Irish Laws we were all gob smacked with its amazing flowing lyrics,never a truer song sang ☘️💚🍀🇮🇪🙏
Seen them in Warren's Town college dunshaughlin co meath in 1981 christy was playing basketball before the gig i was to scared to say hello I was only 13
I had thé cd for ages d'avoir spillane on thé uillean pipe christy moor singing Donald lunny on bouzouki and others on this album à fantastique cd on rock folks and trad edited in thé eighties
Their version of this is brilliant and nothing short of it. My favourite part is the verse about the warheads and submarines holed up in the harbours, and the bass line sounding discordant and slightly out of tune. Great stuff.
[Em]They[C] dropped the[D] bomb in[Em] '45 to end the world war, No-[C]one had ever seen[D] such a terrible[Em] sight before, TheC] world looked on with[D] eyes wide to[Em] see where it might lead, The[C] politics of[D] power, they[Em] passed around their seed, It was a[D] time to remember, we never can forget, They[Em] were[C] playin' Hiroshi[D]ma, Naga[Em]saki, Russian Roulette. They arose like the saviours of our modern human race, With radiation haloes, that hung about their face, With the key to the sure-cure, the treatment of our ills, A hot-shot of cobalt, and a pocket-full of pills, Speaking always of the enemy, who lurked across the sea, While they crept in among us like a carrier disease. Deep down inside the bunkers of the concrete and the lead, Einstein's disciples working steadily ahead, Making heavy metal power-plants to fire the city lights, All you can hear in the underground is the humming through the night, And the walls of tight security, circle all around, Where they spill out their poison and bury it in the ground. Holed up in the harbours hidden secretly away, War-heads and submarines await to make their play, The military masterminds improve on their design, The soldiers get all doped up and stumble through the lines, While the spills into the rivers get carried out by the tide, They call this security but we're not satisfied. Our statesmen and leaders and politicians pay, Quick to heed the hand that feeds, they're careful what they say, They call out experts to assure us, to wave their magic wands, This is the power of the future, And the future marches on, And they call in their favours, all their political gains, While the spills fill the rivers and settle in the plains. They've caused the death of millions, that's their stock and trade, They will be afflicted by the fallout that they've made, They've sealed their own inevitable doom, it must surely come, Not even the moons of Jupiter will be far enough away to run, When this earth that they've assaulted, begins to turn around, And the unavoidable gravity, sucks them to the ground. I know the minds behind them, they are riddled full of holes, Not to be trusted with their hands at the controls, Their eyesight it is twisted by the glory of their careers, The heaped praise and flattery is music to their ears, To listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened yet's, Like playing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette... ...........:)O(:.............
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All I want at this particular moment in time is for the guy I want to drag me upstairs and to make love to me to the point at which I can't remember own name, his name, what country we're in, what planet we're on, what tf I ever offered up to get him to marry me when id now add s kidney.
Absolutely and especially on an issue like this, billions being spent on weapons that at any moment could wipe out all of humanity while they tell us that they have no money for healthcare and housing and tackling starvation. Utter madness.
davy spillane the Jimi Hendrix of the Uileann pipes ...
Great lyrics fantastic musicianship. So underrated. This track epitomises the two extremes of human achievement. ...the musicianship is the top end....what they are singing about is the bottom end. Saw them in Caernarfon years ago and in Dublin.....this is definitely on my Desert Island discs!
So true, how underrated is old Christy ?
Some of the best lyrics ever written! 👏👏
Chriaty Moore is great on his own, but man, what an amazing band!
one of the best tunes ever
Lucky to be one of the first to see them in Galway in 1981. A memory to last a lifetime.
Moving hearts kept us alive & kicking in the baggot. Inn twice a week every week,for 2 years solid,class first time they played Irish ways & Irish Laws we were all gob smacked with its amazing flowing lyrics,never a truer song sang ☘️💚🍀🇮🇪🙏
I saw Moving hearts in London a few times ... absolutely amazing band.
Thank you for posting this album, I saw Moving Hearts LIVE in Dublin many years ago and I could not believe what I was hearing.
Ah memories of these brilliant musicians
Excellent channel. Love your musical choices. Well done. Sending love from the Marble City
Downstairs one night, about 1980, downstairs int he Baggot Inn. What we saw and heard, wow.
Seen them in Warren's Town college dunshaughlin co meath in 1981 christy was playing basketball before the gig i was to scared to say hello I was only 13
go on christy ye boy ye.
Proper music- timeless
You lads are exactly what I love seen ye in Gloir co Clare Ennis goin to see ye in December in the Queens can’t fecking wait much love lads 🍀🍀🍀❤️
brilliant, up there with Dylan's "Masters of War"
Like f.......k it is Moving Arses were CRAP
we tried to cover this with 2 guitars.... not easy,,,,,,,,,,,, love this song for decades, its so true
Musicianship at its finest, still haven’t herd a bad song by Christy 🇮🇪
As good as it gets.
Amazing the song is ah great I like it.
Brilliant song
Pipes and saxophone wow
this is how i learn my history
Génial !
the instrumental break at 2:06 ❤
I had thé cd for ages d'avoir spillane on thé uillean pipe christy moor singing Donald lunny on bouzouki and others on this album à fantastique cd on rock folks and trad edited in thé eighties
Moving Arses What Tools
I have fond memories of seeing them in the maggot bin ( as we used to call it )
Planxty O Moraigh agus na boys.Up Shimane,Japan..ganbaru!
Their version of this is brilliant and nothing short of it. My favourite part is the verse about the warheads and submarines holed up in the harbours, and the bass line sounding discordant and slightly out of tune. Great stuff.
Dimebag Spillane
What goes around comes around!!!...:)O(:...
[Em]They[C] dropped the[D] bomb in[Em] '45 to end the world war,
No-[C]one had ever seen[D] such a terrible[Em] sight before,
TheC] world looked on with[D] eyes wide to[Em] see where it might lead,
The[C] politics of[D] power, they[Em] passed around their seed,
It was a[D] time to remember, we never can forget,
They[Em] were[C] playin' Hiroshi[D]ma, Naga[Em]saki, Russian Roulette.
They arose like the saviours of our modern human race,
With radiation haloes, that hung about their face,
With the key to the sure-cure, the treatment of our ills,
A hot-shot of cobalt, and a pocket-full of pills,
Speaking always of the enemy, who lurked across the sea,
While they crept in among us like a carrier disease.
Deep down inside the bunkers of the concrete and the lead,
Einstein's disciples working steadily ahead,
Making heavy metal power-plants to fire the city lights,
All you can hear in the underground is the humming through the night,
And the walls of tight security, circle all around,
Where they spill out their poison and bury it in the ground.
Holed up in the harbours hidden secretly away,
War-heads and submarines await to make their play,
The military masterminds improve on their design,
The soldiers get all doped up and stumble through the lines,
While the spills into the rivers get carried out by the tide,
They call this security but we're not satisfied.
Our statesmen and leaders and politicians pay,
Quick to heed the hand that feeds, they're careful what they say,
They call out experts to assure us, to wave their magic wands,
This is the power of the future, And the future marches on,
And they call in their favours, all their political gains,
While the spills fill the rivers and settle in the plains.
They've caused the death of millions, that's their stock and trade,
They will be afflicted by the fallout that they've made,
They've sealed their own inevitable doom, it must surely come,
Not even the moons of Jupiter will be far enough away to run,
When this earth that they've assaulted, begins to turn around,
And the unavoidable gravity, sucks them to the ground.
I know the minds behind them, they are riddled full of holes,
Not to be trusted with their hands at the controls,
Their eyesight it is twisted by the glory of their careers,
The heaped praise and flattery is music to their ears,
To listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened yet's,
Like playing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette...
...........:)O(:.............
Still today where one psychopath at the controls away from nuclear anilolation and that makes me sad.
Written by the late great Jim Page
Jim Page is still with us , thank the gods.
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Really? 😂
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Paul brady
X-rays plus DU.
Taxi EM (|*|) choreography ih
Biotics switch I don’t play cards du
All I want at this particular moment in time is for the guy I want to drag me upstairs and to make love to me to the point at which I can't remember own name, his name, what country we're in, what planet we're on, what tf I ever offered up to get him to marry me when id now add s kidney.
all the political games...
Such a wonderful songsmith and performer, its such a shame he was wrong about every political question he ever put his mind to
In your opinion Many of us would disagree with you.
Absolutely and especially on an issue like this, billions being spent on weapons that at any moment could wipe out all of humanity while they tell us that they have no money for healthcare and housing and tackling starvation. Utter madness.
He’s a traitor now hates irish people for speaking up against mass uncontrolled immigration from the muslim third world 🐷
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