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Fureys - The Grand Affair

  • 13-02-2008 10:23am
    #1
    TeenageKicks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭


    Hello

    Does anyone know the story behind this song? Who is he supposed to be?

    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    Suaimhneach
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,436 Mod ✭✭✭✭Suaimhneach


    Do you want to explain a little bit more, I'm not sure what you are referring to. A quick google brought up this thread... so I cant help you otherwise.


  • #3
    Decco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Decco


    The Grand Affair
    Take a bus, who needs a car
    Who needs here, close by the (bar)
    I'm not very hungry now, are you
    Is it okay if I share yours with you
    Got no money and (me'd) think I believe that you knew
    Remember the moon on the water, how she shine
    The taste of the sheets and the feel of the wine
    Wasn't I glad that you were mine in the grand affair

    Take a boat, or maybe a plane
    Anywhere now, except Greece or Spain
    For sure I know where I am
    I see canals, this is Amsterdam
    Friends here they know, they can say who I am
    Remember the (room, anywhere, any view)
    Frightened we'd meet someone that we knew
    No farewells or how-they-dos in the grand affair

    Now, I stay at the best hotels
    And there's white coated waiters attend me
    And they look at them beautiful gals
    Do they really believe they can win me

    I drive now, it's seldom I walk
    Speak French, but I rather not talk
    And which suit will I wear tonight
    Take out the brown, but in the end wear the white
    After shade stepping out, stepping into the light
    Remember the moon on the water, how she shine
    The year was all wrong, so we sent back the wine
    Ah, wasn't I glad that you were mine in the grand affair

    Performed by The Fureys and Davey Arthur. Written by R. McTell.

    Not sure who it's about though lads, sorry.


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