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Thin Lizzy – Emerald
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Emerald is the final song on ‘Jailbreak’, Thin Lizzy’s 6th Album, released in 1976.
According to Phil Lynott biographer Mark Putterford, the group composition “Emerald” was “the
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Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak
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This song was the second single and the title track from the album. It’s arguably Thin Lizzy’s second most famous song, after The Boys Are Back in Town, which was the album’s first
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Thin Lizzy – Warriors
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I am a warrior / I serve the death machine / Losers or conquerors / All flash past on my silver screen / Death is no easy answer / For those who wish to know / Just ask those who'
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Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in Town
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This track is the Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy’s 1976 first top 10 hit song, which they would follow up with their arguably best hit “Whiskey in the Jar”.
It is from their
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Thin Lizzy – With Love
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It's a tedious existence, laying your love on the line / Resistance is useless, she can leave at any time / I must confess that in my quest, I felt depressed and restless / But
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Thin Lizzy – Bad Reputation
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Well, I had the riff down. Phil came up and he says, ‘We need to do an off-time thing with this.’ He started to work with [drummer] Brian Downey on that, and that’s when they came
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Thin Lizzy – Running Back
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I'm a fool now that it's over / Can you guess my name? / I make my money singing songs about you / It's my claim to fame / When they say it's over / It's not all over, there's
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Thin Lizzy – Renegade
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‘Renegade’ was written by Phil Lynott and Snowy White, and was track 2 on the album of the same name. White, decided to leave Thin Lizzy after this his second album with the band
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Thin Lizzy – The Rocker
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[Verse 1] / I am your main man if you're looking for trouble / I take no lip, no one's tougher than me / I'd kicked your face, you'd soon be seeing double / Hey little girl, keep
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Thin Lizzy (Ft. Phil Collins) – Johnny
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Somewhere on the waterfront / Johnny's hiding with a gun / Swears he'll kill any man that tells his story / He ain't sorry for what he's done / He broke into a drugstore / Just to
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Thin Lizzy – Thunder and Lightning
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Locked up in the classroom, waiting for the break / Down to the schoolyard, knocking the gate / Into the alley, meet up with the boys / Waiting for the weekend to make a little
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Thin Lizzy – Southbound
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The boom time it is over / A ghost town is all that's left here / The gold rush it is over / And depression days draw near / Tonight after sundown / I'm going to pack my case / I
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Thin Lizzy – Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend
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This is Phil Lynott’s ode to Ireland, his beloved home nation. Black Rose is taken from Thin Lizzy’s 9th album and Album of the same name, released in 1979. Which turned out to be
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Thin Lizzy – Cowboy Song
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[Verse 1] / I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail / A starry night, a campfire light / The coyote call, the howling winds wail / So I ride out to the old sundown / [Verse 2] / I
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Thin Lizzy – Cold Sweat
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[Verse 1] / I put my money in the suitcase / And headed for the big race / I felt a chill on my backbone / As I hung up the telephone / [Pre-Chorus] / Stone cold sober and stone
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Thin Lizzy – Rosalie
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Originally written and recorded by Bob Seger in 1972, this cover is the opening track on 1975’s Fighting.
The song is intended as a tribute to Rosalie Trombley, a former music
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Thin Lizzy – Massacre
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This song is about the horrors of blood shedding.
Phil Lynott wrote the lyrics after he was visited by a Protestant clergyman while lying in the hospital. Lynott, who was a
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Thin Lizzy – Rocky
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Cocky Rocky, the rock and roll star / He's got the talent to take him far / Started out playing hotel bars / Cocky Rocky, the rock and roll star / Spent his time just looking for
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Thin Lizzy – Wild One
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Wild one, won't you please come home? / You've been away so long / We need you home, we need you near / Come back, wild one, will you? / How can we live without your love? / You
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Thin Lizzy – Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed
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Johnny the Fox / He called to Jimmy the Weed / He said "Hey man, I know your name / I've seen you cruising with the low riders / Hanging out down on First Street and Main" / Tuned
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Thin Lizzy – Trouble Boys
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The Trouble Boys came in / I guess they'd been out fighting and a'raving / It wasn't long before they moved in / And picked up the girls that we'd brought to / It closed at ten o'
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Thin Lizzy – Showdown
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Johnny Cool was the king / The leader of the boot boys / He'd never cause no trouble / In a rumble make some noise / He heard about some chick / And the way she liked to rock / He
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Thin Lizzy – Suicide
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The paper called it suicide / A bullet from a forty five / Nobody cared, nobody cried / Don't that make you feel sad / Peter Brent combed his hair and sent / For the police
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Thin Lizzy – It's Only Money
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You don't believe in love / You don't believe in hatred / Put your money in the bank / It's the only way to save it / You try to make a buck / But you haven't made a penny / You
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Thin Lizzy – Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight)
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[Verse 1] / When I passed you in the doorway / Well, you took me with a glance / I should have took that last bus home / But I asked you for a dance / Now we go steady to the
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Thin Lizzy – The Farmer
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Sure do appreciate y'all coming / Especially you Skinny Lizzy / Me and my cousin Frank / He's the one that robbed the bank / Bought some whiskey all can drink / And it's in the
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Thin Lizzy – Fighting My Way Back
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Fighting / Fighting / I'm tough, rough, ready and i'm able / To pick myself up from under this table / Don't you stick no sign on me, I got no label / I'm a little sick, unsure
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Thin Lizzy – Fools Gold
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In the year of the famine / When starvation and black death raged across the land / There were many driven by their hunger / To set sail for the Americas / In search of a new life
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Thin Lizzy – Sarah
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When you came in my life / You changed my world / My Sarah / Everything seemed so right / My baby girl / My Sarah / You are all I want to know / You hold my heart so don't let go
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Thin Lizzy – Philomena
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I've been a wild, wild rover / Sailed all over the sea / But this thing that makes me wonder / Has made a fool of me / For it took me from my childhood / Underneath the stars and
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Thin Lizzy – Waiting for an Alibi
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This song was the album’s first of many singles.
The lyrics about someone called Valentino, who is a gambler and generally takes many risks. Valentino was probably inspired by
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Thin Lizzy – Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)
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They say people out in Hollywood / Live their life out in black and white / They're living out a technicolor dream / Next day they're a star overnight / Not like in New York / Man
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Thin Lizzy – The Holy War
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If you will adore me / Bow before me and praise my name / If you place no god before me / Then all I have is yours to claim / And if God is in the heavens / Why did God let
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Thin Lizzy – Romeo and the Lonely Girl
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Never released as a single in it’s own right, Romeo and the lonely girl was a firm favourite of many Lizzy'ites. Appearing on the very well received ‘Jailbreak’ album, it was a
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Thin Lizzy – Still in Love with You
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[Verse 1] [Vocals: Phil Lynott, Frankie Miller] / Think I'll just fall to pieces / If I don't find something else to do / This sadness never ceases / I'm still in love with you / [
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Thin Lizzy – Killer on the Loose
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Some people they call me Jack / Some people they call me insane / I'm looking for somebody / And I don't even know her name / I might be looking for you / Wherever you may be / For
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Thin Lizzy – Sha-La-La
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A strange kind of magic, call it voodoo / You want that woman, yes, you do / Believe me, baby, I know it's true / Come on, sugar, let me give it to you / I want to sha-la-la / Ooh
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Thin Lizzy – Angel of Death
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Oh my God / There's millions of them / I've seen a fire start in Frisco / The day that the earth quaked / I've seen buildings a`blazing / Going up in flames / I heard men, women
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Thin Lizzy – The Sun Goes Down
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[Verse 1] / There is a demon among us / Whose soul belongs in hell / Sent here to redeem us / She knows it all to well / [Chorus] / He comes and goes, he comes and goes / She knows
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Thin Lizzy – Opium Trail
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According to Phil Lynott’s biographer Stuart Bailey, this song was inspired by a TV drama on triads, which had become “a worrying obsession with Phil”. Phil was addicted to drugs
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Thin Lizzy – Borderline
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It's midnight in the big city / At the bar drinking all on my own / Just thinking about that girl and me / How something's going wrong / Mister, tell me / What's my saving grace
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Thin Lizzy – Fight or Fall
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Brothers, here I stand / Spread my wings and take command / The sky he justly planned / The boy become a man / After all this time / I tell myself that I'm / Not just wasting time
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