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Riot on Race Day

from Riot on Raceday by Shambolics

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Riot on Race Day

There’s a riot on race day the Shambos beat them all
Played all day and never did stall
Music started they couldn’t stand still
There’s a riot on race day way down at Morphettville

Bought an auld nag down at the knackers yard
Looked like a runner, but we’d have to train her hard
Fed her potatoes and soup made from nettles
Lumps of hairy bacon that we boiled up in a kettle
Pushed her and pulled her and dragged her along
She wouldn’t move an inch there as something very wrong
Fed her strong tae and half bottle of whiskey
Well she galloped home boys leppin and frisky

Bet all our money on the nag at 500 to 1
The race started but she stood there blinking in the sun
Our money is lost the future is risky
Then the jockey leaned over and whispered
‘if you win this we’ll give yah a full bottle of whiskey’

She ran and ran and ran and ran bedad she beat them all
Jumper all the fences and never did fall
First pass the post she tore up the track
All the bookies cried foul and had a massive heart attack

Music and Lyrics © 2016 Jimmy Hopper

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from Riot on Raceday, released July 15, 2016

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Shambolics Adelaide, Australia

The Shambolics play raucous rollickin’ roots music, with tunes from Dublin Bay to Vladivostok. All sorts of instruments will be on the stage and some of them might actually be played – pipes, whistles, banjo, accordion, guitars, harps and even a bodhran to get the feet stompin... Put on yer dancing clogs on and get down to a Shambos gig – or we’ll come and get yeh!! ... more

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