The Saw Doctors
The Saw Doctors are an Irish rock band. Formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway. They have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in The Republic of Ireland including three number ones. Their first number one, "I Useta Lover," topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990, and still holds the record for the country's all-time biggest-selling single. Renowned for their live performances, the band has a cult following, especially in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. On 15 February 2008, they received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards.
Career
Origins and line-up
The Saw Doctors were formed in 1986 by Leo Moran (formerly a member of defunct Tuam reggae band, Too Much for the White Man), Davy Carton (formerly a songwriter and guitarist with short-lived Tuam punk band Blaze X), and local vocalist Mary O'Connor. The trio got their start playing small gigs in local venues such as Tuam's Imperial Hotel. O'Connor left the group the following year to emigrate to London. Carton and Moran added other musicians, and carried on with the band.
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ALBUMS
- 25:25: The Best of the Saw Doctors, Volume II released: 2012
- The Further Adventures Of released: 2010
- To Win Just Once: The Best of the Saw Doctors released: 2009
- Live at The Melody Tent released: 2008
- That Takes the Biscuit! released: 2007
- Live on New Year's Day released: 2005
- The Cure released: 2005
- Live in Galway released: 2004
- Play It Again Sham! released: 2003
- Villains? released: 2001
- Some Where Far Away released: 1999
- Songs From Sun Street released: 1998
- Sing a Powerful Song released: 1997
- Same Oul' Town released: 1996
- Friends, Demos, B-Sides released: 1994
- If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back released: 1994
- All the Way From Tuam released: 1992
To Win Just Once: The Best of the Saw Doctors
Released 2009- About You Now
- N17 (live)
- Last Summer in New York
- She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
- Green and Red of Mayo
- To Win Just Once
- That's What She Said Last Night
- Small Bit of Love
- I Useta Lover
- Clare Island
- Joyce Country Céilí Band
- Exhilarating Sadness
- Why Do I Always Want You
- What a Day
- Stars Over Cloughanover
- Sing a Powerful Song
- World of Good
- Same Oul' Town
- Red Cortina
- It Won't Be Tonight
- Hay Wrap
- Never Mind the Strangers
That Takes the Biscuit!
Released 2007- Fortunately
- She's Got It (Spiddal Recording)
- Some Hope
- An Cailin Sin
- The Winter is Long
- Bebo
- Villans (Giles Packham Mix)
- Good News (live 2002)
- Will It Ever Stop Raining? (live 2002)
- Chips (live 2002)
- California Sun
- Maroon and White
- You're in Love With Someone Else
- Forty Years in Tuam
- I Think It Might Be You
- DreamGirl
- Yaygour Guitaygar
- Ways of the World
- Merry Christmas Tuam
- She's Got It (Nashville Recording)
- Somewhere Far Away
- The Has My Father Smoked
- (Reprise)
Live on New Year's Day
Released 2005- Intro / High Nellie
- Exhilarating Sadness
- To Win Just Once
- Never Mind the Strangers
- The Green and Red of Mayo
- Villains
- I Useta Lover
- Tommy K
- Michael D. Rocking in the Dáil
- N17
- Galway & Mayo (including Maroon and White)
- Joyce Country Céilí Band
- That's What She Said Last Night
- It Won't Be Tonight
- What a Day
- Hay Wrap
Play It Again Sham!
Released 2003- World of Good
- I'd Love to Kiss the Bangles
- Michael D. Rocking the Dail
- Bless Me Father
- Joe Wall Broke My Heart
- Me Heart is Livin' in the Sixties Still
- Howya Julia
- Apples, Sweets or Chocolate
- Broke My Heart
- Crock of Gold
- We're the Popsuckers
- Small Ball
- Winter's Just a Dream
- She Says
- Small Bit of Love
- Bushwhackin'
- Sound Sham
- School of Beauty
- Letter from Louise
- Where's the Party?
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Broke My Heart
by: The Saw DoctorsRoscommon CBS 1981
A dreary afternoon
We travelled down from Tuam
I saw that open goal
I can see it still
Fifty-fifty ball
You nearly got me killed
You broke my heart
Tore it apart
We lost that spark
When you broke my heart
We might have won the game
But I just did'nt care
You went and let it go
Just like I was'nt there
I saw you commin' in
I was'nt marked at all
I had it in the net
If you had passed the ball
chorus
I was standing on the edge
Of the parallelogram
Roarin' me head off
Pass it in sham
Play it in low
Don't hesitate or stall
Will you open your eyes
For Christ' sake
Pass me the ball
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Their full-back was big
But I was small and fast
I had him left for dead
If I had got that pass
A girl can foul you up
Tear your life apart
There's more than just one way
To break a young mans heart
And you broke mine
Copyright: Moran/Carton
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