Christy Moore - The City Of Chicago Lyrics

Love christy, always magical experience seeing him live ☘️🇮🇪♥️

Song famous Seamus Boyle Arran whisky buy Willie dreman folks band

Not a famine
A contrived genocide

The Great Famine affected both the Irish Catholic poor and the Protestant poor in the north of the country, a historian has said. ... The Great Famine took place between 1845 and 1852, resulting in the deaths of over one million people to die across Ireland and forced millions to emigrate.

This is what I listen to without the homies

Just love that song, as the best films there usually based on a true story! 👍

“With their belly’s in the water”
Christy your a legend and true Irish patriot your music will live forever.

I know Christy's nephew.

Definitive version no question. Christy is king

This is shit

I can’t sing this song without crying..😢

Genocide not famine ,stories were passed down of the food removal regiments

EIRINN GO BRACH !!!

Powerful
Some of my ancestors somehow managed to survive in mayo and st helens

GO HINTACH AR FAD

Where/when was this performance anyone please?

No words for how good this is

Cracking tune so many memories 😆😆😆😆😆

Ich liebe diese Lied💗

a wonderful song by a wonderful artist god bless u Christy

im a 15 year old irish teenager and i have to say that keyboard warriors are fighting for no purpose /user/Fireman9ify or mick thank you for putting them straight !!!

freedom Par

famine is all the food in the wrong hands.inequality brawer.that's all it is.

Heartbreaking, cruel. Imposed famine.

I was brought up on Christy.. it's great to hear the likes of Derek Ryan covering and putting their stamp on his songs.. all is well...

it was 1850 not 1870

It was 1845 2 1851

It was actually 1847

Where is this from?

Irish Republican it was written by Christy's brother Luka Bloom.

@Tellemore no but I meant where was it filmed?

Irish Republican lol, sorry!

Thanks for this upload. Was searching for this performance for a while. So damm good.

Christy ,thanks for the lifts back in 99'☺.keep trucking my friend

A very sad thing to happen to Ireland at the time .. the famine.  Yes, all nationalities have their stories.  This one I feel, was very well done, and with very much conviction by Christy here.

well put agreed

Understood.

Christy Moore singing saint Brendan song

Christy sings this song with a lot of power. always nice to hear this song it never borrows.

Such a good song

All through the famine, enough food left Ireland for England to feed the starving nation. But the rents must be paid.

@Nancy Benefiel wait are you saying it was fine countless numbers of men women and children died slow agonizing deaths of starvation and disease while others fled their home in hopes they might survive, many of who died on the journey and all this was ok because "rent" needed to be paid? or are you making a comentary on the sick backwards thinking?

fuckin rights no good limeys

It wasn't a famine. During a famine there is no food. During An gorta mor, enough food left Ireland daily to feed the country. It was genocide.

Nancy Benefiel so through it was econimic genocide by the british house of commons.they would not release food to feed the catolics due to lobbying from prosetant land lords because it would affected there profits.

@Brian Byrne well young man prods died by the thousands as well they went to the states as well and died at home as well in the city cemetery in belfast both sides from the famine are buried. Presbyterian ' were persecuted by the English just as the Roman Catholics . And yes they sent our food to feed the Enlish as well

The best, every which way you take your faith...!

Ireland is a very small country, which has had to suffer famine, invasion, oppression and many atrocities, but her people never relented, they never gave in, they spread through out the world were they were welcomed by many nations. The Irish believe in supporting other small nations who have been oppressed. The Irish are proud to be Irish, a pride which is instilled in one generation to the next regardless of the country they live in.

Well said Mick, well said.

I't wasn't famine, lets call it how it is .... It was mass genocide.

Mick proud to be from donegal 🇮🇪

Im from ireland and that is true

It was genocide not famine

Captivating song!

I love this song. An honorable song sung by a fine singer. Indeed ! We all have our own
heartaches. I happen to live near the south side of Chicago, where the Irish once presided. My neighborhood is now mainly Polish and Arab. I am from Texas, where people weren't really so caught up in origins. I liked it there. I would just always go along to please the masses. I know that a god lives in all. A funny time I had dodging them all throughout life. Ignorance. But I LOVE Irish stories & songs :-)

Three people who can't handle the truth.

πάρα πολύ όμορφο!!!!!!!!!!!!

dawww double dawwww dingwit ffs starving people had to leave ireland no food as the brits kept all the good stuff for them they ship millions of tons of food to britain as they didnt care if the irish lived or died as is the case in afghanistan or iraq or any other empire state of theirs????

Beautiful artist. Great song.

And about 22 Presidents.

Yes they were mostly of ulster Scots decent. who were dying by the thousands in the 9 country's of ulster and Presbyterian down to cork died
Murderd by the English.

Thank you for explaining. The boats were heavy laden and so, deep
were the belly of the boats. Now I understand why this phrase ..

YEah, but when did people start leavin'

IT meant that the boats were heavily laden with people and food for the trip, ergo, the belly of the boats were deep in the water.

hon christy ya bollox

I heard the song as I traveled with paddy wagon through the Ring of Kerry. Since this trip I love this song!

My sister answered this for me. The bellies in the water were as one would refer to as the bottom of the boat, the belly. The bellies in the water were the boats. Their bellies in the water.

I've listened to this song many times now. I was trying to understand what the singer was referring to regarding the bellies in the water. Sadly, It seems that the ship pulled out of the harbor (with all of the goods described) amongst all of the' bellies in the water' ~ floating there.
(Those who had perished). Any other takes on this ? I'd like to get feedback Thanks.

Louise, he just meant that the ship was so full of goods/food that the hull or "belly" was deep in the water. Just a poetic metaphor.

christy moore u legend. thats me for the day now. beatin out christy

I love this song. I hear Irish people playing it on the jukebox. I live just outside the Southwest side of Chicago. The song is haunting and beautiful and respectful about what happened. There is a big Irish population in Chicago. This is one of the very many cultural songs that we hear here. Every nationality has had their heartaches, or happiness, resulting in their journey to America. I suppose all are better off here. I still like the songs of longing & passion, no matter the nationality.

geez louise you should see the hills of Donegal

One person doesn't have any ears.

If there was no famine in ireland America would have lost a huge part of its music and culture.

shut up bono

Christy is the best comon Christy, love your music

like this version too. nice. thanks for posting.

I love this version. Thanks. They sailed out with their bellies in the water. Great imagery.