Changing Your Demeanour Lyrics - The Long Black Veil - The Chieftains

Here we are we've come to call 

With pipes and flutes and fiddles and all 

In case of death we've even brought a keener 

So, if you're glum and feeling down 

Just feel like us and act the clown and soon 

There'll be a change in your demeanour 

I put me money on a horse today 

For with the race he'd run away 

Or so a friend that's in the know he told me 

Twenty lengths ahead at most 

He proudly cantered pass the post 

But, woe was me, he lost the bloomin' jockey! 

Now of all the places I have seen 

From China to the Caribbean 

Are all across the goat compared to Ireland 

From Bally Castle to Tralie, the Corup to the Liffy 

There's no where else on earth but like this island 

In Hollywood I long to be 

No, not the place across the sea 

But in county Wicklow, Ireland's lovely garden 

Where no pretenders will you find 

But decent people warm and kind 

And flocks of friendly sheep into the bargain 

For your ills don't take a pill 

But take it down the road, the hills 

And listen to the larks lovely warbling 

In the evening in the company 

With music in the key of E 

You'll be dancing Kerry sets until the morning 

Dancing Kerry sets until the morning