Shades of a Blue Orphanage

<br>When we were kids he used to go over the back wall into old dans scrapyard<br><br>Into the snooker hall where most us kids were barred<br><br>An into the roxy and the stella where film stars starred<br><br>Thats where me and hopalong an roy rogers got drunk and jarred<br><br>And we might have been the saviour of the men,<br><br>The captured captain in the devils demon den<br><br>And we might have been the magic politician in some kind of tricky position<br><br>Like an old, old, old master musician we kept on wishin<br><br>We was headed for the number one hit country again<br><br><br><br>{chorus}<br><br>And its true<br><br>True blue<br><br>Irish blue<br><br>And its true<br><br>True blue<br><br>And sometimes it reminds me of you<br><br><br><br>Theres an old photograph of dan that I wish you could-a seen<br><br>Of him and the boys posed, standing in st. stephens green<br><br>Ya see, they were a part of the great freedom dream<br><br>But they were caught and detained and are locked inside the frame<br><br>Of the photograph<br><br>And he might have been the clever con, the good samaritan, the rassclaut man<br><br>An he might have been the loaded gun, the charlatan of the tap dancin fan<br><br>But like an old pioneer from outer afghanistan,<br><br>Headed for the number one hit country again<br><br><br><br>{repeat chorus}<br><br><br><br>Old dan in a raincoat hums the very, very, very special notes<br><br>Of a long lost favorite melody<br><br>It reminds him of a love affair when he was young and did not care<br><br>And how he parted so soft, so sadden<br><br>And he might have been the laughing cavaliero, the wise old commanchero<br><br>Ow, the desparate desparado, the good looking randolph valentino,<br><br>The gigolo from glasgow<br><br>But like an old, old hunter of the female buffalo,<br><br>Hes headed for the number one hit country again<br><br><br><br>{repeat chorus}<br><br>And its true<br><br>True blue<br><br>Irish blue<br><br>True blue<br><br>Irish blue<br><br>And its true<br><br>Its so true<br><br>Ummm, its true<br><br>I swear Ive said it<br><br>Swear Ive said it<br><br>I swear I said it<br><br>I swear its true<br><br>And its true<br><br>True blue<br><br>Oh, its irish blue<br><br>And its true...