Thin Lizzy - Emerald (Live 1981) HQ

Lyrics & Information
Taken from the Live & Dangerous album tour. I realise this video is already on youtube but since I found a better quality audio one I decided to put this up. Enjoy!
Lyrics :-
Down from the glen came the marching men
With their shields and their swords
To fight the fight they believed to be right
Overthrow the overlords
To the town where there was plenty
They brought plunder, swords and flame
When they left the town was empty
Children would never play again
From their graves I heard the fallen
Above the battle cry
By that bridge near the border
There were many more to die
Then onward over the mountain
And outward towards the sea
They had come to claim the Emerald
Without it they could not leave

[@alcatraz3539]

I was a massive fan of this band before many had even heard of them. Still listen to them even now and I'm in my mid sixties!!

[@thom5517]

Me too 😁 Saw them 4 times

[@scotthildebrand2293]

It is a darn shame Lynott couldn't manage his demons. What a great band!

[@johnlittle4833]

Phil Lynott was a rock meteor who lit up the sky all too briefly before he sadly died far too young. But he's left a fantastic legacy of peerless rock classics like Emerald, I'm a Rocker, Renegade, Jailbreak and so many others. Well done Phil and the boys. A unique band and sound that will live forever in the rock pantheon.

[@cristobalguzman408]

Brian Downey one of the best drummers ever.

[@zibberebbiz]

He's the kind of drummer where you can just focus on the drums in a song and it's always really interesting ❤️

[@MusicMachine89]

I agree! 🤘⚡🔥🥁

[@Ian666peace]

He looks like a mong, though

[@A1B2C3-y6k]

100%. So under rated. Absolutely brilliant.

[@UndercoverNormie]

Yup, he's amazing. Very underrated as far as 70s-80s drummers go imo. He has so much feel in his playing, loose as a goose

[@nflynn]

Coolest Irish man ever, there is a reason he has a statue in a country where they are hard earned.

[@KayZee1957]

Well, there's Rory Gallagher, the king of the Strat and a working man's rock star for all time. And, yeah. He's got a statue too.

[@ezioauditore7427]

Don't forget Rory Gallagher.

[@lizzyfan1986]

@@ezioauditore7427 Philo>Rory

[@ezioauditore7427]

@@lizzyfan1986 Lizzy one of my favorite band and Philo was coolest guy but Rory was king of rock. When it comes to live performance none better.

[@petermorningsnow]

Phil Lynette as a statue is a small start, but I support it. Only I don't support Ireland.

[@PhlashRockinmann]

Rock N Roll has never, will never, & can never get any better than Thin Lizzy..The end.

[@headlyfarquinson5646]

Jimi Hendrix and a band of Gypsy's was way better you just have to watch live at Berkeley or Woodstock to find out for yourself even if your Irish you will agree with me

[@mysisterscross]

This is true, seen them all, none as good as this...

[@mysisterscross]

There is no way, I would have gone onstage after Thin Lizzy...

[@harwoods11]

Gary Moore perhaps........ But he was once part of Lizzy.. So

[@WALTRIPFLAIR]

@@mysisterscross I was a live witness to Freddie Mercury and Queen having a tough time doing just that. A lot of the crowd was calling for Lizzy's return while Queen was playing. If the best front man on an iconic legendary band has a tough outing....I see your point.

[@bruce5168]

Greatest vocalist. When you hear his voice, you know who it is right away.

[@threalismaradona9899]

There is no other that sounds that way

[@michaelgraves9462]

One of their Best songs.

[@re8746]

I am 54 and still listen to Thin Lizzy. What I would do to go back to 1981-89.

[@jeffhartwig6280]

When I listen to Thin Lizzy... so do my neighbors!

[@QuixoticCowboy]

My neighbors once called me to ask if i can turn the stero up cause the walls swallowed to much of the sound.

[@FelixtheMetalcat]

As do mine !!

[@trevtrickster]

THIS DAY 28 YEARS AGO WE LOST A LEGEND BUT HE WILL BE ALIVE IN OUR HEARTS AND MEMORYS. R.I.P PHIL LYNOTT.

[@midnightmover2329]

I used to hang with Phil and all the boys in middle years,Black Rose,Johnny the Fox all that time.Lots an lots of Booze and all those Chicks,lots of Chicks.I didn’t see any drugs,and I’m telling you I saw a lot,I could write a Fucking book

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

What a fkng GREAT band they were. I saw them waay back in time late 70s, amazing gig! I love this song. PHIL Lynott...What a front man, singer and songwriter!! R.I.P I watched the documentary over the weekend on bbc2, really good, and very moving.

[@delboyrams363]

Phil lynott Poet song writer one of the best live singers ever Unreal driving bass player And above all a true IRISHMAN let us never forget how good he was and lizzy just amazing

[@delboyrams363]

@flip inheck he was irish as Irish as can be .ur the moron

[@delboyrams363]

Half or more of irish soccer team are less irish than phil FACT

[@user-fp7rc6sp5t]

Never see their likes again! We lived through the era of the greatest rock music ever played and heard. RIP Phillo👏👏👏👏

[@davidclementi5434]

Phil can only be regarded as the LEGEND he was/is....and I Promise you these two guitar players REALLY ROCK IT OFF THE STAGE!!!! The kind of band that MAKES THE LIVE EXPERIENCE SO EXCITING & MAGICAL!!!!

[@johnegli1308]

Their back and forth guitar. Legendary

[@davidclementi5434]

@@johnegli1308 Look up REO Speedwagon's 157 Riverside Avenue- the Live version! I guarantee you'll be overwhelmed at the way Kevin Cronin & Gary Richrath are communicating with Kevin's voice & Gary's riffs! That's gotta be my favorite jam by REO...

[@johnegli1308]

@@davidclementi5434 just listened to it. Been a long time. Saw reo in 73. Opened for blue oyster cult. Great song I’d forgotten. Thank you. Serious back and forth. 👍

[@FlashframeFilms]

What a criminally underrated band, especially Downey.

[@teamEP789]

aw here's the token underrated guy

[@dagsouleyedblue407]

@@teamEP789 Been reading lotsa comments right? I'm gonna go one further: Brian Downey is fucking drum royalty. Lots of drummers seem to forget its (also) about the swing, specially in metal/hardrock. I'd like to put Downey in the same ballpark as Mr. Bill Ward, man had groove in spades. Playing an inch behind the beat, almost lazy yet hard hittin, funk ridden rock swagger.

[@joelcavazos6549]

They were one of the best hard rock bands of the 70s. And, yet even the H.O.Fame over looks them. But, in my book the're one of the best

[@badlobo2105]

I saw them live in 77 and 81 amazing band..Tickets only 12.00 maximum..

[@JohnMcGrath1]

That’s is very a cruel fact !! I hold him in higher regard than bonham

[@mysisterscross]

I have to agree, Thin Lizzy is rock and Roll, it won't get better than this...

[@LeonTrotsky6782]

Thin Lizzy. Duelling guitars were amazing. Great band. Much loved by us all.

[@InTheMindOfDavid]

Kicking the door in with the twin guitars and even doing it before Maiden. I might be misremembering but I’m pretty sure Thin Lizzy’s guitar duo was the inspiration for Iron Maiden have two lead guitars, which then went on to become a cornerstone of their signature sound. Thin Lizzy is such a criminally under appreciated band.

[@noodlesa1]

Phil would be 70 today, still rocking. RIP man

[@Geoff812]

Emerald is such a great song gives me chills

[@arnoburtner380]

Best rockband ever. Period.

[@kuppamato]

better than ac/dc or motörhead? dont think so. still good though. nah, scratch that. still EXCELLENT though.

[@arnoburtner380]

hey ho let's go then. AC/DC, Sex Pistols, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Ramones, Swans, Metallica-arses.. they changed the world all together, pick your fav pigeon

[@grahama6054]

Arno Burtner b

[@citizenk9693]

@@arnoburtner380 , you missed Black Sabbath and a few.....

[@sorkeror]

How the F*CK can Thin Lizzy not be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Without Thin Lizzy, NO Iron Maiden, no Metallica and no Europe.

[@stevenhorton7457]

Down from the glen came Lynott and his men with their axes and amps ,to play through the night what they believed to be right ?👍🎸

[@jennihamill1480]

philip paris lynott 28 years gone but never will be forgot a true rock legend godbless EIRN GO BRAGH

[@Fish2409]

Great song, great band, great drummer Brian Downey and all musicians. Phil amazing played on bass guitar... R.I.P Phil

[@elkepluntke3024]

Phil Lynott we miss you

[@padraigsisk4057]

Some band in the sky from these islands. Phil lynott, Stuart adamson, Rory Gallagher and Lemmy

[@willashfordpayne8354]

They will have a Awsome band in Heaven Gary Moore Rory Gallagher Phil Lyontt and Freddie Mercury .

[@guitarlover302]

Sounds amazing 👌so tight - great in every division of the band - all musicians excellent

[@solarwind3656]

Remember to vote for their nomination in the 2020 Rock in Roll Hall of Fame!

[@robotboy7478]

Should already be there

[@rogerlawrencewhite1475]

Sadly the RnR hall of fame is all about who has the $$$$$$$ to get in and I don’t see the surviving members having enough in royalty check to do enough to do more than go grocery shopping which saddens me greatly as they really DO deserve to be in th hall of fame , but it’s about $

[@robbiecrites4683]

Blank the rock n roll hall of fame ! We true rockers know who’s the real rockers are

[@michaelmaldonado7369]

We lost our beloved Philip on this day 33 years ago. May he rest in peace. All these years later,and I still find myself crying as I post this.

[@patrickpruden3019]

Thin Lizzy played at first concert I attended- Monsters of Rock 83 Nuremberg Germany. Thin Lizzy was my first concert T-Shirt!

[@IamRockDemon]

I love this song !!!! The guitars sound so agressive. Fantastic.

[@frankarnold8520]

I´m missing Brian Robertson. He had the best guitar spirit for this song....

[@jmpotts64]

Yes, He's not playing in this video. Bummer.

[@dagoram]

Seriously, it's just not the same without him in these live videos

[@YandTIII]

Gorham is one of the MOST underrated shredders! Interesting, he's the LONGEST member of Lizzy and yet a Yank.

[@cremin13]

YandTIII yeah obviously Scott is insanely good but Brian Downey and Phil Lynette were the longest members and the only members who stayed the whole way through Lizzy’s career

[@jimmyk.113]

Who’s Phil ‘Lynette’?

[@thirdvect0r]

He's off time, kilter, and swag this recording, are our ears wired different? He's top 4 for me usually but he sounds like ass lol

[@batphink2655]

@@cremin13 You mean LYNOTT!

[@kristinedee888]

Greatly underappreciated band!

[@zibberebbiz]

I think I've listened to this song about 50 times the past two or three days

[@jondunmore4268]

We will send some help.

[@magilla878]

scott gorham was the one guitarist that stayed with thin lizzy throught it's existence!

[@danhalpin3646]

Amazing band !!

[@A1B2C3-y6k]

Lizzy in Liverpool was the first proper gig I ever went to. The Renegade tour. To say I was blown away by them is an under statement. What a band. They set a very high bar for all of the future gigs I attended.

[@JohnnyDevaney]

If only everyone knew the greatness they were listening to

[@fossie32]

Great! Wonderful that this tour was recorded. Till we meet again yeah - RIP

[@glennaugustyn5209]

This is such an amazing Live Album Definitely in my top 3 Live Albums. This song is a Showcase for the 2 Guitar attack that Lizzy had. Just a powerhouse of a song. Hard Rock at it`s FINEST Wish there were more bands like this playing and being heard on the radio as well as playing Live making music like this.

[@Chris-yz7cs]

God bring back Phil...........we will give you nail horan

[@simonthemark]

Make the trade!

[@ryanmccarthy8533]

throw in the rest of that rubbish band while your at it

[@Steve-nq8jc]

Even better we'll give them Boyzone and West Life,

[@davemorrissey9133]

Robbie williams

[@liquidcreativenyc]

I’d kick in 3/4 of the 80’s LA hair bands just as loose pocket change to help round up.

[@johan6881]

Love youtube, childhood memories with my tapedeck and Thin Lizzy and reading on my bed.

[@irishelk3]

Saw his mother on Trinity street today, she looks great.

[@Neil7026]

she just died today

[@rogerlawrencewhite1475]

Sadly they’ve both passed on . God bless them and the beauty they brought into this world

[@jamesgrady5576]

my favorite Thin Lizzy song

[@vinceleone3952]

How could Thin Lizzy not be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.A travesty.

[@rsl4448]

Eternal classic!!!

[@jimg.708]

down from the glen came the marching men with their shields and their swords to fight the fight they believed to be right to overthrow- the overlords... RIP Phil and Gary Moore too...

[@chufa72]

Wow I can see a lot of this song's influence in my favorite band (Iron Maiden)

[@TacoCrisma]

Thin Lizzy has influenced so many bands it’s insane

[@aaronjorriy7763]

@@TacoCrisma facts. Dueling les paul lead guitars. Cant unhear it

[@kentphillips581]

the band had some great songs , not just two hits in the good old USA

[@AMCmachine]

When talk turns to the great rock drummers, Brian Downey all too rarely gets the credit he deserves.

[@steffanpila5704]

Fantastic Live Version of "Emerald" by Thin Lizzy. Darren Wharton does a great job with the keyboards. Darren Wharton's keyboard sounds fit perfectly with Thin Lizzy 80's Sound. Thank you.

[@ornical]

That was actually painful to behold. I think this must be around the time the drugs were really doing them in. The actual Live and Dangerous performance of this song is pure fire. When you know what cats are actually capable of, this sounds almost Spinal Tappish as an example of a great band falling down.

[@batphink2655]

I'm a lifelong LIZZY fanatics and tis just depresses me to watch SO many guitar mistakes .One can see Snowy doesn't want to be there and around all that damn heroin!

[@user-dg2zn2jd8w]

Brilliant group

[@gaelbgalbar9307]

Incredible song. I mean, all Iron Maiden 's career is born here.

[@chrisbarlow2131]

I'm sorry but Iron who?

[@TheGreatAlan75]

I agree. Maiden based their career on this song and killer without a cause

[@lunaandvoodoo8335]

Maiden equal to thin lizzy??? Fuck me man iron maiden wouldnt be fit to string these guys guitars. All of maidens guitar work starts with Thin Lizzy

[@arsenico70]

@@TheGreatAlan75 so, what's the matter? two great bands and stop.

[@charlesharris3735]

I had the pleasure of seeing Limehouse Lizzy last night. Not the real deal I know, because that is impossible, but damn me they were good!

[@melissa2688]

I really wish that I was in that crowd to hear this live. Thin Lizzy rocked! Take care and stay safe everyone 😷

[@sinnertrain7405]

This is NOT taken from the Live and Dangerous tour! That tour was in 1978 with Brian Robertson as co-lead guitarist. I love Lizzy and saw them on the L & D tour.

[@ChrisScian]

This'd most likely have been from the "Renegade" tour.

[@brianmcd9492]

Land that gave us many presidents of Ireland and America ,Grace ò malley , Katie power,and developed a fine musician Phil lynott and his band of merry supporters🙂

[@chrisbarlow2131]

Sorry, but after hearing this rendition, I am just so so glad I saw them at the peak of their collective powers when Robbo and Scott carved the guitar work up beautifully.

[@0211571]

Best band ever. F u rock and roll hall of fame. Met Phil. Nice guy. He gave me time while he was picking up two women. Loved him. Scott rocks. What a nice man

[@conorobrien5911]

The Lizzy greatest rock band.Philo😎

[@ernt03]

Great gig

[@hvythrs195]

Miss you so much Phil!!!!

[@harryprater9014]

I was a huge fan with their first album...!!!!

[@chrishutt6650]

Happy St Patrick's day all! Play Emereld, Whiskey in the Jar & Black Rose! For Phil & Gary!

[@zinhuilucan]

Hermoso!!! Phil Forever !!!!

[@heavymetal9448]

The only Bassist that doesn't look nerdy with his bass up that high

[@ashratempel5094]

Amazing! All i can say is....wow!!!

[@mysisterscross]

Can you imagine, you are Journey, STYX, Kansas, Queen and it's the late 70's, and you have to go on stage after Thin LizzY? With some of the best rock guitars players that ever lived? Fuck you might as well have quit your band and joined Thin Lizzy!

[@elvinposey5251]

I can. I was there. I was a teenager. My brother loved the opening bands which I didn't but it was a concert so I went! Lizzy opened the first time and blew me away and I became a fan forever! the 2nd time I knew they were opening and I begged him to take me and again they blew me and him away! too bad he didn't remember the next day and to this day he still won't listen to Lizzy but he does listen to those other bands.

[@raulrrodriguez7552]

One of the most intense guitar rips ever 🙌👍🙃Scott gorham and Brian Downey ,guitar duel is awesome 😎

[@user-tk5cw2my5q]

17 my youth

[@harrype3283]

Best lyrics. Hardest Guitarplaying.

[@scottbarker9058]

YEPP..THAT DOURTEY FACED IRISHMAN HAD SUCH A UNIQUE GREAT VOICE!!

[@oddjohanlundberg8234]

One of there best

[@patsyhobbs3243]

29yrs today since wi lost ya Phil R.I.P ya music il live on fa fuckin ever man!!!!! love ya

[@lydiamutoti4228]

So underated and the lyrics have historical content Jonathan

[@michaelsmith3657]

Excellent!

[@MetalThrasher90]

Snowy's exquisite, blues-oriented guitar playing made Lizzy's sound richer and somehow, more versatile. Too bad most fans back then and these days don't appreciate it.

[@tohtori666]

I love Snowy!

[@josephvargas480]

Jeeez, its been 38 years since I heard this one.

[@JamesWhite-vh3jr]

The man at the back,he makes your hands clap and your toes tap, Mr Brian Downey.

[@mariohermann7538]

EMERALD IS TOP SONG OF THIN LIZZY...!!!! R.I.P. GARY AND PHIL...M.P.H. SWITZERLAND.

[@TheBaconGod]

You're not alone there my good sir!

[@neilexley8798]

This is the first live concert video I have seen of this classic Thin Lizzy track with the great Snowy White, R.I.P., to me, Snowy was the most underrated guitarist of the early 1980s, he also worked with Pink Floyd, "Bird of paradise" to me, should've been number 1 in the UK charts, I just hope to find a live concert recording of the great Thin Lizzy doing the full version of "Don't believe a word", I had a recording of this song as a double single record many moons ago, cant remember the main single, but it was about the time when "Thunder and Lightening" album was released.

[@thefonzkiss]

Snowy White is still alive! And the slow version of Don’t Believe a Word is on Live/Life from 83. With Snowy on guitar. Was originally a limited edition single included with the Thunder and Lightning album.

[@kimdeese6410]

His voice at 1:45 - 158 is beyond beautiful!!!!

[@tomt.3089]

The real deal! We’re talking rock here!🐲🤘

[@FIERO871]

Not since The Yardbirds has a band been able to boast of so many great guitarists!

[@trukerdad1019]

BOY, Thin LIZZY ROCKED/ROCKS!!!

[@waguin7042]

Brian Downey is a amazing drummer

[@phrygiandominant6989]

Posting Phil's smaragdine on St. Patrick's Day. R.I.P. Phil (and Gary) We still want Moore!

[@ThinLizzyFanpage]

thanks!

[@stevenleo5280]

77 warm up ac/dc high to hell tour Aragon ballroom Chicago

[@gregfagan4405]

Great tune!

[@heavymetal6910]

I think the guitarists listening to this will hear the clamfest, without a stunt guitarist like Gary Moore or John Sykes, or even Brian Robertson, the guitar parts really suffered. 78 in Sydney with Gary Moore was a guitar exhibition.

[@TheMydryaz]

Thank you sbyrne1, youre right, it sounds good!! ;)

[@PaddyByrne931]

Legends, nobody like lizzy Class

[@garrycane1170]

I went to a gig one winter in sleepy Bristol England but it was snowing and the band couldn't come so an outfit from London stepped in called Yo Yo, a TL cover band. I swear to god it was Phil on bass, even looked like him they were that good.

[@bcancun123]

Amazing

[@Radioheader]

Just a great song