What Makes The Irish Heart Beat Lyrics - Down The Road - Van Morrison

All that trouble all that grief that's why I had to leave 

Staying away too tong is in defeat 

Why I'm singing this song, why I'm heading back home? 

That's what makes the Irish heart beat 

I'm just like a hobo riding a train, I'm like a gangster living in Spain 

Have to watch my back and I'm running out of time 

When I roll the dice again if lady luck will call my name 

That's what makes the Irish heart beat 

Well that's what makes it beat, when I'm standing on the street 

And I'm standing underneath this Wrigley's sign 

Oh, so far away from home but I know I've got to roam 

That's what makes the Irish heart beat 

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And it was off to foreign climes on the Piccadilly line 

We were standing underneath the Wrigley's sign 

So far away from home, well I know I've got to roam 

That s what makes the Irish heart beat 

Just like a sailor out on the foam any port in a storm 

Where we tend to burn the candle at both ends 

Down the corridors of fame like the spark ignites the flame 

That's what makes the Irish heart beat 

But I roll the dice again, if lady luck will call my name 

That s what makes the Irish heart beat 

Oh, that's what makes the Irish heart beat 

That's what makes the Irish heart beat