Escrita por Van Morrison, foi gravada em novembro de 1973 e lançada em outubro de 1974 no disco Veedon Fleece. É na verdade a canção que abre o disco. O título é como um amigo irlandês de Van, chamado Donall Corvin, costumava cumprimentar os amigos. Ele dizia: “fair play to you”. Fala da cidade de Killarney e dos poetas Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe e Henry David Thoreau.
A letra:
Fair
play to you
Killarney's lakes are so blue
And the architecture
I'm taking in with my mind
So fine...
Tell me of Poe
Oscar
Wilde and Thoreau
Let your midnight and your daytime turn into
love of life
It's a very fine line
But you've got the mind
child
To carry on
When it's just about to be
Carried
on...
And there's only one meadow's way to go
And you say
"Geronimo"
There's only one meadow's way to go
And
you say "Geronimo"
A paperback book
As we walk
down the street
Fill my mind with tales of mystery, mystery...
And
imagination
Forever fair
And I'm touching your hair
I
wish we could be dreamers
In this dream, ohhh
Let it dream
And
there's only one meadow's way to go
And you say "Geronimo"
And
there's only one meadow's way to go
And you say "Geronimo"
Fair
play to you
Killarney's lakes are so blue
High-ho silver, tit
for tat
And I love you for that
High-ho silver, tit for tat
And
I love you for that, love you for that, love you for that
High-ho
silver, tit for tat, tit for tat
And I love you for that
High-ho
silver, tit for tat, hah!
Yeah, yeah
And I love you for
that
And theres only one meadow's way to go
And I, and I
say "Geronimo"
And there's only one meadow's way to
go
And we say "Geronimo"
Geronimo
And there's only
one meadow's way to go
And we say Geronimo
And there's only one
meadow's way to go
And we say Geronimo
Fair play to you
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