Shades of a blue orphanage lyrics

Artist  : Thin lizzy 
Song : Shades of a blue orphanage
 
When we were kids he used to go over the back wall
into old dan’s scrapyard
Into the snooker hall where most us kids were
barred
An’ into the roxy and the stella where film stars
starred
That’s where me and hopalong an’ roy rogers got
drunk and jarred
And we might have been the saviour of the men,
The captured captain in the devil’s demon den
And we might have been the magic politician in
some kind of tricky position
Like an old, old, old master musician we kept on
wishin’
We was headed for the number one hit country
again

{chorus}
And it’s true
True blue
Irish blue
And it’s true
True blue
And sometimes it reminds me of you

There’s an old photograph of dan that I wish you
could-a seen
Of him and the boys posed, standing in st.
stephen’s green
Ya see, they were a part of the great freedom
dream
But they were caught and detained and are locked
inside the frame
Of the photograph
And he might have been the clever con, the good
samaritan, the rassclaut man
An’ he might have been the loaded gun, the
charlatan of the tap dancin’ fan
But like an old pioneer from outer afghanistan,
Headed for the number one hit country again

{repeat chorus}

Old dan in a raincoat hums the very, very, very
special notes
Of a long lost favorite melody
It reminds him of a love affair when he was young
and did not care
And how he parted so soft, so sadden
And he might have been the laughing cavaliero,
the wise old commanchero
Ow, the desparate desparado, the good looking
randolph valentino,
The gigolo from glasgow
But like an old, old hunter of the female
buffalo,
He’s headed for the number one hit country again

{repeat chorus}
And it’s true
True blue
Irish blue
True blue
Irish blue
And it’s true
It’s so true
Ummm, it’s true
I swear I’ve said it
Swear I’ve said it
I swear I said it
I swear it’s true
And it’s true
True blue
Oh, it’s irish blue
And it’s true...