Moore, Christy - Sail On Jimmy Lyrics

Seen Christy last night in Armagh absolute legend and what a story teller never change Christy a true Irishman Danny O’Donnell might have an OBE but you have the hearts of the Irish ☘️ 🇮🇪

patrick maginess aye was there last night myself was fkn class

Nota Pineapple was so funny haven’t stopped listening to this, classic Christy

Play this at my funeral

my son's nickname is Jimmy thinks this is his song. definitely an acoustic masterpiece but clearly shows the dark era self absorbed Irish mentality

I KNOW WHAT SONG I WANT PLAYED AT MY FUNERAL .

My dad died 6 month's ago Jimmy was his name he would have loved this song love ya dad miss ya x

MY NEW FAVOURITE CHRISTY MOORE SONG , HAVING BEEN AT THE RECENT BARROWLANDS GIG WITH MY FELLOW CELTS . THE AUDIENCE PAYED CHRISTY THE RESPECT OF
NOT CALLING FOR THEIR SONG & ALLOWED HIM TO GUIDE US ON THE JOURNEY . FOR SOME REASON THERE WAS LARGE GROUPS OF IRISH OVER FOR THE CONCERT , THEY
SANG LIKE DIAMONDS . SPOKE TO A PRO EU GERMAN COUPLE ( NO WAR FOR OVER 70 YEARS ) & A SCOTTISH COUPLE WHO CONVINCED ME AT LAST TO GET AN IRISH
PASSPORT . MANY THANKS. A MAGICAL EVENING . GOD KNOWS WHO THE ONE VOTER IS ,IN BOTH MEANINGS .
SEE CHRISTY MOORE AT BARROWLANDS

Fantastic ❤️ can anyone help with the chords please?

They laid out the body, in the peaceful pagan home
To pay their last respects , all the neighbours came along
In the wee hours of the mornin' pagan words from the whiskey still
Fallin' from the bushes, sworn enemies are friends again
Someone spilled porter on the corpse in the middle of a song
And the stories kept on comin' back from 1941

Chorus:
Sail on ,sail on, Jimmy
Sail on, Jimmy boy
Sail on , sail on, Jimmy
From this Irish Pagan Ritual

Mad Mary from the crossroads, grabbed my arse for all to see
"I'll tell your fortune, Scoby, if you come on home with me"
"In the name of god now, Mary, some respect for the dead!
You can't be grabbin' arses, at a pagan ritual!"

Chorus: Sail on, sail on Jimmy etc

Father Tim is tellin' Tommy how the Israelites came in
And Tommy's atein' sandwiches that are pilled up next to him
Someone started singing a Revenge for Skibbereen
There's a french lad there translatin' for the next door neighbours daughter Jean-Louis,
and lovely Angeline

Chorus: Sail on, sail on Jimmy etc

In the wee hours of the mornin' we were howlin' at the moon
When the mystic wind took Jimmy way up to the mystic room
Up up up up up he's gone in peace to save us all
Gone with a mystic blessin' from the peaceful pagan ritual

Chorus x 2

These differ from the lyrics from the original writer Albert Niland, Christy put his own stamp on it and the lyrics differ slightly by Christy upon different live versions of it :)

Thank you very much i really been looking for the lyrics but no where else

Beautiful song, I love your music, thank you. Besteht regards, from Hamburg¶

Top craic this is

It's a classic already.

My favorite Irish folksinger! <3 I have to see him one day! In Ireland.

Love it Mr.C.Moore

Bellissima! Grande Christy che non tramonta mai! Poeta degli ultimi...

Can't wate to go see him in 2 weeks in Bundoran..

Another classic from Christy ... is there a back story to this tune ?

Albert Niland wrote it about his uncle, Jimmy.

CHRISTY SAID IT WAS A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WHO HAD SAILED AWAY , BUT WANTED A BIG WAKE TO MARKING HIS PASSING .

Love your work Christy :)

fantastic