Go Move Shift - Christy Moore

Born in the middle of the afternoon

In a horsedrawn carriage on the old A5

The big twelve wheeler shook my bed,

«You can’t stay here"the policeman said.

CHORUS

You’d better get born in some place else.

So move along, get along, Move along, get along,

Go!

Move!

Shift!

Born in the common by a building site

Where the ground was rutted by the trail of wheels

The local Christian said to me,

«You'll lower the price of property.»

CHORUS

Born at potato picking time

In a noble tent in a tatie field.

The farmer said, «The work’s all done

It’s time that you was moving on.»

CHORUS

Born at the back of a hawthorn hedge

Where the black hole frost lay on the ground.

No eastern kings came bearing gifts.

Instead the order came to shift.

CHORUS

The eastern sky was full of stars

And one shone brighter than the rest

The wise men came so stern and strict

And brought the orders to evict

CHORUS

Wagon, tent or trailer born,

Last month, last year or in far off days.

Born here or a thousand miles away

There‚s always men nearby who’ll say

CHORUS

Six in the morning out in Inchicore

The guards came through the wagon door.

John Maughan was arrested in the cold

A travelling boy just ten years old.

CHORUS

Mary Joyce was living at the side of the road

No halting place and no fixed abode.

The vigilantes came to the Darndale site

And they shot her son in the middle of the night.