Music and lyrics by Richie Kavanagh
Spoken….”Tommy Hogan had a cinema up in Garryhill,
The pictures in that cinema are in my memory still.
T’was there I seen Roy Rodgers, Kenneth Moore n’ Ben Crosby.
Ye’d pay your little tanner, the whole of Hollywood ta see”
Chorus
Tommy Hogan had a cinema up in Garryhill,
The pictures in that cinema are in my memory still.
T’was there I seen Roy Rodgers, Kenneth Moore n’ Ben Crosby.
Ye’d pay your little tanner, the whole of Hollywood ta see.
Tommy had a cow house in 1954, He said this milking cows I’ll never do no more.
He bought a big projector, hung a sheet upon the wall.
Then he had a cinema the finest of ’em all.
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Murphy went to the pictures, every Sunday night.
He’d always bring the quar one and he’d hauld and squeeze her tight.
He’d sat down in the back seat, the pictures he’d never see.
He’d be always trying to put his hand upon the quar ones knee.
Chorus
Tommy Hogan had a cinema up in Garryhill,
The pictures in that cinema are in my memory still.
T’was there I seen Roy Rodgers, Kenneth Moore n’ Ben Crosby.
Ye’d pay your little tanner, the whole of Hollywood ta see.
Now we were all just young lads, sittin’ there in the front row.
But we knew what was happenin’ the back seat now ye know.
If someone started courting and if they made a sound.
Tommy’d switch on his big flashlight and he’d shine it all around.
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Tommy Hogan had a cinema up in Garryhill,
The pictures in that cinema are in memory still.
T’was there I seen Roy Rodgers, Kenneth Moore n’ Ben Crosby.
Ye’d pay your little tanner, the whole of Hollywood ta see.
Now every little cinema, in every little town.
Lost out to television an’ long ago closed down.
But I can still remember, every actor, every seen.
In Tommy Hogans cinema, our local silver screen
About the Song,…..Tommy Hogans Cinema.
Tommy had a shop in Garryhill,there was a cow house in his back yard, that he converted into a cinema. It was there, at eight years of age, I would go every Sunday with a tanner in me hand, That was a sixpence,or six old pennies.
”The films that I loved to see featured Laurel and Hardy, Mother Reilly and Norman Wisdom”.