All The Way From Tuam Lyrics - Singles - Saw Doctors

l'm from the town drenched in football and rain 

that fathered the terrible twins 

tom murphy the footballer, playwright and singer 

he left to spread his wide wings 

where the dance halls once buzzing with shifts and refusals 

stand silent dejected and cold 

where they played basketball for a longer duration 

than anywhere else in the world 

chorus: 

we're all the way from tuam 

all the way from tuam 

with a rock solid spirit, that'll never be broken 

there's songs to be sung, and there's words to be spoken 

from the town that was built, where the cart wheel was broken 

we're all the way from tuam 

all the way from tuam 

l still remember, the white star being open(2nd chorus) 

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no matter where you're from,everyone local 

where we'd spend all the weekends to help pass the winter 

playing soccer above in parkmore 

or we'd travel away for a match into galway 

in the swamp or out in renmore 

they'd be calling us smokies the lads from the city 

but l didn't care what they called me 

just plank it in lively across for the noodle, 

sham his jills with the k.d's a gomey 

chorus: 

here in the town where the high king once ruled 

with the wisdom of ages gone by 

the grey stone cathedral spiers are dwarfed 

by a tall metal tower in the sky 

where the traveller's are settling, and the settled gone travelling 

the pubs full of gossip and rumour 

you'll never better the people of tuam 

for their power, passion, packets and humour 

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