Donnybrook Fair - Dr. Strangely Strange

Mercard taught the leathered looking king

Plugged in his amplifier and began to sing

And Henry Grattan standing in the rain again

Down on Dawson street waiting for a number ten

To take him to donnybrook fair

He’s got some business to do there

Oh it is possible to do anything

Dance among the queens

Or play chess with the high king

Thomas Wentworth standing underneath a silken sail

Turns to the unicorn and asks him how he’s failed

And Deirdre of the sorrows catching crabs on the seashore

Turns to the unicorn and asks him what he’s for

Well I’m for Donnybrook fair

When I’ll get the time I’ll see you there

Pick a golden apple from the heart of the sun

I can assure you that it is very easily done

Joseph married Lancard with a sword in his right hand

Walking to the gpo to play with the band

And Patrick Pearse comes squinting through 1916

Turns to the unicorn and asks him how he’s been

Well I’ve been down In Donnybrook fair

How come I didn’t see you there?

Oh it is possible to do anything

Dance among the queens

Or play chess with the high king

The mighty cretin show-band led the pike-men from the rear

And nobody sees the unicorn quietly standing there

And the long-faced leading singer tries to imitate Jim Reeves

Ah the unicorn just shakes his head but has fobbed a waste at least

He’s gone down to Donnybrook fair

When I get the time I’ll see him there

Pick a golden apple from the heart of the sun

I can assure you that it is very easily done

But the marquis and me, in cloud-stepping shoes

We danced away wherever we choose

All good people you must stay together

Rainbow skirt and the broken feathers

Stay down in Donnybrook fair

When I’ll get the time I’ll see you there

The mocking bird has come to sale

He wants to blow your heads away

The king of love my shepherd is whose goodness faileth never

I nothing lack if I am his and he is mine forever

Where streams of living water flow

My ransom soul, he leadeth

And where the verdant pastures grow

With fruit celestial feedeth

What will you have?

Will you have a pint?

I’ll have a pint with you, sir

And if somebody doesn’t order soon

We’ll be thrown out of the boozer

And so through all the length of days

My goodness faileth never

Good shepherd, may I sing thy praise

Within thy heist forever

The king of love, my shepherd, is whose goodness faileth never

I nothing lack, if I am his and he is mine forever

Amen