The High Line is the opening track from the Christmas compilation EP by the Popical Island collective.
lyrics
I'm delivering the news to you: Santa Claus is middle-aged and blue
He shed his red coat and his boots for pyjamas, training shoes
And it was in that state I ventured out, under the influence of a famous stout
To get the holster and the gun from beneath your auntie's bed, but it was gone
Chorus:
Well it's a hard old station, woah-oh
Working the high line way up in the sky
And asking time to stand still
When it's so impatient to move
Imaging Wyatt Earp without a gun, he'd be the damsel in distress, yessum'
The night before the OK Corral he's unarmed and I'm unfit to call him 'pal'
Chorus
Then a light goes on in a Parnell St. huckster shop
All these places cater for cowboys, one set is like the other
It'll do just ot send me to feathers
Chorus
credits
from A Hard Old Station: Christmas With the Popical Island Showband,
released December 13, 2010
Written by Padraig Cooney of Land Lovers and recorded by Fiachra McCarthy of Pantone247, it features a 21-piece band, including two drummers, five guitarists, brass, violins and a rake of percussionists.
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