Shades of a Blue Orphanage

Lyrics

[Verse 1] 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 Into the Roxy and the Stella, where film stars starred That's where me and Hopalong and Roy Rogers got drunk and jarred And we might've been the saviour of the men The captured captain in the Devil's demon den And we might've been the magic politician In some kinda tricky positions 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 (It's true) True blue And sometimes it reminds me of you [Verse 2] There's an old photograph of Dan that I wish you coulda seen Of him and the boys poised, standin' 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 rassclaat man And 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 [Chorus] And it's true True blue Irish blue And it's true, true, true, true True blue And sometimes it reminds me of you [Verse 3] 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 Comanchero Ooh, the desperate desperado, the good lookin' 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 [Chorus] And it's true True blue Irish blue True blue Irish blue And it's true True blue And sometimes it reminds me of you (And sometimes, sometimes it reminds me of you) And it's true True blue Irish blue True blue, Irish blue And it's true (It's so true) True blue (Ooh, it's true) And sometimes it reminds me of you I swear I said, I swear I said, I swear I said, I swear it's true And it's true True blue Oh, Irish blue And it's true