Christy Ring

I'll tell you about a great hurler he hurled his way into renown And his fame spread distant from Cork City through many a village and town He inspired the poets to write of him and the song writers his praises did sing And he was the hurler of all Seasons the one and only Christy Ring. He was born in the year nineteen twenty and he died in nineteen seventy nine And he played from the thirties until the late sixties and as he aged he matured like good wine He won eighteen Railway cup medals a record that will never be beat Yet he was a down to earth fellow a man who was free of conceit. Of him there has been many stories his imprint in hurling he made As long as hurling is played he will be remembered for the many great games that he played In Cork, Limerick, Thurles and Killarney and in Dublin in famed Croke Park In his three marvellous decades of hurling the wizard from Cloyne left his mark. When I was a boy in the fifties Christy Ring in his mid thirties then Yet still one of Ireland's best hurlers he helped Cork and Glen Rovers to many a win He revelled in fierce competition and even in his forties played against the best And he always worried his opponents the hurler who always impressed. The Cork and the Glen Rovers wizard his fame spread beyond Ireland's shore his name will live as long as the game of hurling and that will be forever more He inspired the poets to write of him and the song writers of him did sing And he was the hurler of all Seasons the legendary Christy Ring.