Wait until dawn The streets will be cool and clean again Then it's time to go downstairs, meet the man He'll be sittin' in a limo with a gun in his hand
It's Saturday night on the Lower East Side I'm sittin' here contemplatin' suicide I just got mugged down in Tompkins Square When a skinny-assed junkie
Oh, oh, oh, oh Chuckie said, "I don't know what's goin' on I'm down on my knees and I'm ah uh losin' it Been up and down this New York town Lookin' for
silver knife Waiting for you and the remains of your life Ticking away like some pitiful clock? And I, who could not even be called your wife Safe and home
Open up the door, she's standin' there With the smile in her eyes but the gray in her hair Betrays the fact you strayed far from home With your drinkin
Danny came over to old New York From Bandon town in the county Cork He got a room on the avenue in Woodside Queens And a job off the books doin' demolition
down by Houston Street You were wrapped around a wiseguy for all the world to see Ah, you touched my heart across that room Then you came on home with
[Incomprehensible] Paddy came down to Voodoo City Met a lady on Bourbon Street She was dark, she was beautiful Swept that boy right off his feet Runnin
to my Black Rose Still in love with my Black Rose She's up in heaven now, my Black Rose You won't be makin' love to my Black My Black Rose, he don't
Born on a black Monday, me mother screamin' curses Me old lad in the pub losin' money on the horses Me granny kicked in the door said, "Get a job, you
Oh Maureen Maureen got married to a sanitation worker She's livin' out in Brooklyn with her mother in law And when her old man's sleepin' Maureen comes
we need you the most Hey, big fellah..........c'mon Tabhair dom do lamh Give me your hand Back on the streets of dublin when we fought the black and
