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I Was There

from An Irish Life by Tommy Keyes

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lyrics

Driving home a lonely road, I pass a bar I used to know
It’s empty now, it’s all shut down, it used to be the place to go
In my mind I’m pressing rewind to the Saturday and Sunday nights of Summer
Play a track to carry me back to the golden age of gigs when we were younger
I know ‘cause I was there

What happened to the girls we knew who waited outside for the band?
The beauty queens of seventeen, I doubt their kids would understand
In my mind I’m pressing rewind to the Saturday and Sunday nights of Summer
Play a track to carry me back to the golden age of gigs when we were younger
I know ‘cause I was there

I remember all those great venues – Morans, McGonagles and the Baggot,
The Mississippi Rooms in Bray, and the one I passed today –
They’re all gone now, every last one of them, and all those great bands - Stagalee,
The Bogey Boys, Rocky De Valera and the Gravediggers……
All the cheesecloth and denim and the bikers in their leather jackets
Queueing up for spring rolls in the Chinese after the gig
And you know when you see a photograph from those days all anyone notices is the hair
‘Cause it was crazy hair……….but those were crazy days
I know, ‘cause I was there

credits

from An Irish Life, released July 29, 2016
Tommy Keyes: keyboards, vocals
Dick Farrelly: guitars, bass
Gerard Farrelly: drums, percussion
Richie Buckley: saxes
Ellen O’Mahony, Cian O’Mahony: backing vocals

Written by Tommy Keyes
Produced by Dick Farrelly
Engineered by Michael Heffernan at Sun Studios, Temple Lane, Dublin 2
Assistant Engineer: Michael Brady

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After an absence of nearly 40 years, Tommy Keyes returns with a stockpile of great songs that defy categorisation. Rock? Pop? “It’s 1970s singer-songwriter music”, he says, “because that’s what I am.”

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