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    The Devil or the Barrel opens with the original song “Whiskey Chaser” – one of four original songs on the album. Over the course of these thirteen tracks TLB mix and match a variety of influences which make up their sound. For example, the rambling American ballad “Rye Whiskey” (a.k.a. Jack O’Diamonds) shows the diversity with some Sham-Rockabilly styling and Irish Punk Rock attitude. The drunken violence at the core of the Traditional Irish song “Johnny Jump Up” is underpinned by a brooding darkness that is not often explored in drinking songs.

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lyrics

By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling
Michael, they have taken you away,
For you stole Trevelyn's corn,So the young might see the morn.
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.

Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry

In a lonely prison cell, I heard a young man call
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free
Against the famine and the crown, I rebelled, they dragged me down.
Now you must raise our child with dignity."

By a lonely harbor wall, She watched the last star fall
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
For she lived to hope and pray For her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.

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from The Devil or the Barrel (2012), released July 31, 2012

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