King of the Road

When you're hooring down the road

At ninety miles an hour on the back of a sulky racer

With the wind in your hair and the reigns in your hands

And the horse is in your favour

You're King of the Road

Crack of dawn on a Sunday morn'

And the convoy's in full flow

Pajero jeeps, cars and vans

With the horse box on the tow

Heading out to the edge of town

There's a big race goin' down

First nose to pass the two mile mark

Is crowned the King of the Road

Remember Chip'n'pin and the Indian

In the Class A free leg race

When the Chip took the gold on the Mullingar Road

Well it wasn't the Indian's day

But the Indian has blood to win

He was bred by the big Gang Joyce

For he's sired the foals, worth their weight in gold

Taking home now many a race

When you're hooring down the road

At ninety miles an hour on the back of a sulky racer

The wind in your hair and the reigns in your hands

And the horse is in your favour

You're King of the Road

Now there ain't no flies on the Big Noise

If there are, they're paying the rent

When the Big Noise ran with I'm the Man

And the record he did break

3:57 down the Dualer, flat out on a two mile stretch

Never be the sore loser, cough up now and pay your bets

And when your hooring down the road

At ninety miles an hour on the back of a sulky racer

With the wind in your hair and the reigns in your hands

And the horse is in your favour

You're King of the Road

Fourteen spins and fourteen wins

From the Streamline Sapphire mare

With a record broke on the Ringsend Road

One morning in the Derry air

Now Thomas Clark has left his mark

With a fine bred coloured cob

And the Love Hane, Big Noise, Sapphire Crew all part of the Indian's mob

And when you're hooring down the road

At ninety miles an hour on the back of a sulky racer

With the wind in your hair and the reigns in your hands

And the horse is in your favour

You're King of the Road

Hooring down the road

At ninety miles an hour on the back of a sulky racer

With the wind in your hair and the reigns in your hands

And the horse is in your favour

You're King of the Road