These are some of the strangest Eurovision lyrics ever

As Nicky Byrne urges us to “Just touch who you wanna, Kiss who you gotta”, Billy O’Riordan looks back at the weird and wonderful lyrics of Eurovision from the past 61 years

This year heralds the 61st anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest. For over 60 years now we have had our musical sensibilities tested by a bizarre collection of song lyrics. A close examination of these head scratching couplets have left this listener perplexed. I wonder has anyone actually listened to what is being sung at the annual European-wide, musical extravaganza.

Beginning on home soil, Ireland (a seven-time winner) took its first dip in the Eurovision waters in 1965 with a song about, you guessed it, the weather. Butch Moore sang , ‘Walking the Streets in the Rain’: “ My tears are mixed through the raindrops, cause I’m walking the streets in the rain.” The wheel has come full circle weatherwise with Nicky Byrne singing ‘Sunlight ‘ for Ireland in this year’s contest. Although dermatologists would frown at Nicky’s invocation to: “ live forever in the sunlight.”