Irish Entertainer Robbie Dunn

26/12/2024

Imagine sung by Butcher Bird and Dublin balladeer in Australia

This beautiful little bird came down and sang John Lennon's song Imagine with meI have no claim to this song I am just sharing the bird singing

22/10/2024

Imagine sung by Butcher bird we need peace now
Robbie and butcher bird sings Imagine on youtube

This beautiful little bird came down and sang John Lennon's song Imagine with meI have no claim to this song I am just sharing the bird singing

13/10/2024

Mother and Baby homes

How many innocent were stolen
from dear old Ireland's shores
how many innocent were sold
from mothers and babies homes

Its five am in the morning
just before the dawning
footsteps echo in the hallway
mother stirs in her bed
Baby identified and lifted
innocent victim of crime
Clergy Gardai complicit
politicians turn the blind eye

The deal been done and dusted
one thousand pounds for the child
sold to the highest bidder
the mother screams and cries
Clergy Gardai politicians
complicit in the crimes
a lifetime of searching and heartbreak
for a mother and her child

Nobody charged with these crimes
That’s Ireland

Robbie Dunn all rights reserved © 13/10/2024
APRA registered C/O Irish entertainment Brisbane Australia

10/10/2024

Home alone aged care homes

Her bags upon the vinyl floor Taxi man standing by the door
Don’t worry love slow down we’ve got time She’s all alone now the cat has died
The kids no longer call or phone too frail to live here on her own
Tears they glisten in both their eyes the hardest of all are the goodbyes

Children’s toys photograph’s a torn page grand kid's drawing, fade with age
The swing, clothes line, veggie patch memories captured long since past
Her footsteps echo on the vinyl hall her arm is bruised from her fall
Strangers living now next-door neighbours gone they call now more

House sold beneath the hammer’s blow the nest is empty her kids have flown
They don’t care they will get their share a silent phone looks forlorn
Paranoia of daughter in law their lives too busy now to call
Her son’s head twisted believed the lies a stranger now tears she’s cried

The skip is waiting in the yard old furniture and photographs
Rocking chair and her art emotions bruised and torn apart
They called a few times when she had her fall, she’d slipped in the vinyl hall
They told her tales of financial woes they got the money now she knows

They tell her all she wants to hear play upon her needs and fears
She signs the papers and sighs alone betrayed now by her very own
Grand kids used as weapons pawns and tools elder abuse by greedy fools
Do they seriously think she can’t see the lie? she nods her head and cries inside

The room is empty where she gave birth the love and grace that they shared
They’ve forgotten her now what was her crime her mind it screams?
The brochure is there on the floor glossy photographs of the aged care home
Staring at memories within her mind betrayed now by her own kit and kin

The taxi man helps her down the steps don’t look back he knows what’s best
Selfishness has robbed wisdom and souls locked away in aged care homes
Now treated as commodities driven from communities
They’ll milk them dry till they die someday they will call for you and I
Flu and pneumonia, they slip away corona virus comes into play
Houses and furniture expenses paid tea and sandwiches and the grave

Love and compassion have lost their way aged care homes user pays
Can you take me home voice and eyes plead
Out of sight is out of mind I’ve hugged and loved them as they cried
Cultures destroyed it’s all there to see what has become of humanity
I have seen the elderly weep and cry in aged care homes before their time

Robbie Dunn all rights reserved © 6/8/2017
C O Irish Entertainment Brisbane Australia
APRA Australia

10/10/2024

Grace

Grace and Joseph Dublin 1916As I was out walking one bright Easter mornI heard men out marching greeting the dawnDown Sackville Street they marched as one To...

25/09/2024

Apple Tax
I bought and apple the other day it was rotten to the core
It left a bad taste in my mouth and I spat it to the floor
It was packed with seeds tasted of greed and had no moral ramifications
Billions of dollars in unpaid taxes to scam the poor of nations

See Steve had a dream he could change the world with his innovations
So he and Woz built a computer in the garage of creation
They named it Apple like in the garden but life is full of temptations
Ego and greed drove the machine to money power and tax evasion

They made their billions and realized they would have to share their cash
So they looked around for clowns and gobsh*tes Steve said Woz relax
We will set up in Cork in Irelands green Isle its politicians tools and tossers
They can be bought there for a few pints so we can cut those tax losses

The Irish public have been screwed by Bankers Bondsmen’s and foreign corporations
Crooked Judges N dossers’ Politicians and Coppers cronyism and mass emigration
Gombeen’s and gobsh*tes sickness and greed brought poverty to Ireland’s door
Just like the Apple I bought the other day its politicians rotten to the core

The EU has revealed the extent of your deception and tax manipulation
So return the money without further adieu to the people of the Irish nation
Yes I bought and Apple the other day it was rotten to the core
It left a bad taste in my mouth and I spat it to the floor

Ireland is the most corrupt little country in the western world

Robbie Dunn
21/8/2016 all rights reserved ©
C/O Irish Entertainment Brisbane Australia

25/09/2024

Getting old
The hardest part of getting old
Is the friends we lose along the road
The ones that loved you and made you laugh
Forever young in photographs
Moments shared in time and space
They made you smile when you’d see their face
We chased the ball and our dreams
When we scored oh how we screamed
The lads that sat with me in class
Memories carried from moments past
Always loved you never judged you
Friends are there with a friendly ear
To chase away our doubts and fears
To give you the nudge for that first date
When you were unsure they said, you were great
Always there for each other
Worked side by side just like brothers
Work mates singing as they go
The latest hits from radio shows
The joy of seeing the new dawn
Shared the happiness of the first born
Along the way, we make more friends
We learn to trust and to depend
Tunes we played as lovers danced
We witnessed love and romance
There to help with sweat and toil
We share our gifts and our joys
When the time comes to say goodbye
We speak of love touch and cry
It sad though when we get old
As we lose our friends along the road
My time will come hopefully in a while
I have lived a full life I just smile
And sing No regrets

Robbie Dunn all rights reserved ©20/4/17
C/O Irish Entertainment Brisbane Australia

25/09/2024

The Rooms
Hi my name is Robert I am afflicted with a disease
Addicted to alcohol it has driven me to my knees
I have lost so many friends I have heard their pitiful cries
Some died by beer and spirits car crashes or knife

Better being in the rooms than out there on the streets
For a practising alcoholic it’s a dangerous place to be
Sleeping in the doorways you never know who you meet
Easy prey for the murderer vile ra**st or thief

The shaking of a hand cup of coffee or tea
Friendship hope and laughter, the love it set me free
Yes, it’s safer in the rooms than out there on the streets
I feeling healing power there is the safest place to be

Surrounded by the horrors that attack me from the walls
Electric fleas I vomit n stink my skin aches and crawls
A hundred times I say no more the nightmare of withdrawals
Carrying bruises and the injuries from a thousand falls

Loneliness pain and confusion rampage through the soul
No amount of dope coke or alcohol will ever fill that hole
Disowned by friends and families shipwrecked on the shore
I carry the burden of childhood beating I see the open door
I must get back to the rooms I have to get off the streets
For the lonely alcoholic it’s the safest place to be

The alcohol twists the newcomer’s mind
“Hey you’re not as bad as them”
Never lost your licence been hospital or rehab [yet]
I’ll do something about my drinking if I ever get that bad

Bodies in the rivers the doorways and the parks
The emptiness pain and confusion alleyways after dark
I must get back to the rooms I have to get off the streets
For the lonely alcoholic it’s the safest place to be

Robbie Dunn all rights reserved C/o Irish entertainment Brisbane Australia

02/09/2024

Friendships [The handshake]

Some friendships seem to come and go
Like changing tides, they ebb and flow
A thousand rivulets that run and creep
Into emotions some shallow some deep
Shared moments of happiness and joy
Birthday’s marriages a girl or boy
Friends are there to dry our tears
And cleanse the wounds and sooth our fears
That we may start fresh again
I love you all my dear friends
You have shared my happiness and my joy
Channels form with shifting sands
Friendships too with shaking sands
Robbie Dunn

22/08/2024

Australian Paradise
Can you Imagine what it was like the day before in Paradise
Before the tall ships arrived, Pelicans patrol the blue skies
Cockatoo’s and Cockatiels rainbow fish and Lorikeets
Nectar dripping onto leaves Rosellas Galahs and Cabbage trees
Fruit bats gorge and spread the seeds flowering forests where spiders weave
Natures wonders honey bees grazing Reds and Wallabies
Teaming shoals filled our seas the day before in Paradise

Can you imagine what it was like the day before in paradise
This land of a thousand different rhymes a thousand tongues a thousand tribes
For hunter gatherer this is home over sixty thousand years they roamed
Platypus and Centipedes this ancient land of golden dreams
Cicadas keep the throbbing beat Ringtails swing from honey trees
Echidna wombats and Bandicoots this wonderland where nature rules
Can you imagine what it was like the day before in Paradise

Then the stranger stepped ashore too late now to close the door
Forty thousand Irish slaves my people beaten and in chains
Used as ballast in the holds many never see the fatal shore
Cast overboard to raging seas typhoid cholera and dysentery
On their knees they crawled ashore never to see their homes no more
Lands stolen backs are broken only the Gaelic words are spoken
The innocent carry the convict name being Irish is their shame

Yes, can you imagine what it was like the day before in Paradise
Before the tall ships arrived this wonderland of a thousand tribes
Dolphins play in moonlit bay white washed shores where turtles lay
Scented trees and butterflies mother nature hear her cries
Frogs spawn in billabongs summer rains and sweet birdsong
Wildflowers swoon on desert breeze Koala’s hang nature breathes
Yes, can you imagine what it was like the day before in Paradise

Before the tall ships arrived the day before in paradise

All rights reserved © 8/3/2019 Robbie Dunn
C/O Irish Entertainment Brisbane Australia A.P.R.A. Member

13/08/2024

I got a hug from God today

I got a hug from God today
On a ferry crossing Redland Bay
Innocence personified my personal validation
From the purest heart it touched my eye
I felt the warmth of heart and joy
The love was pure from that little mind
I pray each day for human kind
To heal the deaf and cure the blind
So, they too can see the wonders I see
The dancing bees’ blue skies and seas
No words spoken love touch emotions cascade
All the goodness of humanity pouring into my well
Validation personification the magic of loves realisation
Yes, I got a hug from God today
On a ferry crossing Redland Bay
Doubts removed God bless your little heart
Who am I to complain opportunities present every day?
On a ferry in Redland Bay

All rights reserved Robbie Dunn 12/3/2021
C/O Irish entertainment Brisbane Australia A.P.R.A. Member

I met a man and a young boy while waiting for the passenger ferry to go to Coochie Island in Redland Bay Queensland Australia. The man was a carer for the boy who had disabilities and did not speak. I sang him a few songs and he got embarrassed and turned away in the meantime we had to walk up to the car ferry and get on board.
Once on the ferry the boy insisted, he sit beside me and I sang hi a few little ditties and he smiled at me out his head on my shoulder and gave me a hug it was a magic moment of pure love.
His carer said to me he obviously has taken to you as we stood up to leave, he put his arms around me and gave me a big hug. Some times I have my own doubts what life is all about and wonder if I am on the right track moments like these validate my beliefs.
Robbie Dunn

30/03/2024

Blue Planet
If the elders could see us now you wonder what they might say
Because we haven’t moved very far from the caves
They would surely weep and cry at the anger of all the tribes
Divided now by religions and by greed

This jewel of the universe this paradise we call earth
Filled with life so wonderous to see
Where the butterflies dance on breeze from the flowering scented trees
Salmon spawning in the mountain streams

Where the albatross roams the sky watching whales swimming by
To birth their calves in the warming waters
And upon the moonlit sands where the turtles seek to land
To lay their eggs from where they originated

And the elders would surely cry how could mankind be so blind
To the magic and the wonder that surrounds us
Displaying their colours to the universe

Colours so hard to believe ahh the wonders of the sea
Where the rainbow fish dance among the coral
So, find you space and place sit quietly in natures place
Lift the veil that blinds you from seeing her wonder

So, when the alien ship comes by no they don’t have to wonder why
We destroyed this beautiful planet
Mother nature’s calling you she’s in everything we do
So, protect this beautiful blue planet

Oh, the magic of a sunrise the rainbows fill the skies
So, protect this beautiful blue planet
Protect this beautiful blue planet
Protect this beautiful blue planet

15 /9/22 All rights reserved ©Robbie Dunn C/O Irish Entertainment Brisbane Australia

Blue Planet If the elders could see us now you wonder what they might say Because we haven’t moved very far from the caves They would surely weep and cry at ...