Rory Gallagher - Tattoo'd Lady (From "Irish Tour" 1974)

In 1974, award winning film maker Tony Palmer followed Rory Gallagher and his band on their tour of Ireland. The subsequent movie was released in cinemas to great critical acclaim and has gone on to be accepted as one of the great rock films. Now for the first time the film has been lovingly restored and remastered from the original footage and is being reissued on DVD and released for the first time on Blu-ray.

There is a massive improvement in both sound and picture quality over the original DVD release and finally Gallagher fans can get to see the film as it was meant to be, capturing Rory, his music, the period and the place to perfection.

Lyrics

Tattoo'd lady,

Bearded baby,

They're my family.

When I was lonely,

Something told me, where,

I could always be.

Where I could,

Wish for pennies,

If we had any.

You'd meet me down,

At the shooting gallery.

Yes I'm a,

Fair ground baby.

Wonder what made me,

Fall for the pearly queen.

I spent my youth,

Under canvas roof,

As I roamed from town to town.

I'm not fooling,

When I say I got no schoolin',

Never like the class bell sound.

From the caravan,

I hear the fairground band,

Sounding good as they can be.

You know I can't be found,

But if you look around,

Tomorrow we'll be gone by dawn.

Alright

Now hear it on the loud speaker say,

The fire eater is a real fine sight to see,

Yeah he's a death cheater,

Some kind of central heater,

Be sure to save a seat for me.

Let me tell you 'bout wicked Sadie,

She's no baby,

The law came,

And tried to close her sideshow down.

But soon she had the D.A. cheering,

The police chief wearing,

Her garter for a crown.