/ Don't pay the healerman / Until he gets you to get up and walk to the other side.
I suppose if Chris de Burgh were to remix his 1982 minor hit Don't Pay The Ferryman (lyrics) today, he'd have some lyrics changes along the lines of the above, because it would seem that he now fancies himself a faith healer:
In an interview with Gloria Hunniford on BBC1's Heaven and Earth show, the Lady In Red singer insisted that he had cured a man suffering from a swollen ankle by simply touching the affected area.
He said: "I have found myself able to cure people with my hands.
"I met someone in the West Indies who was not able to walk. I put my hands on him and he was able to get up.
Lest you think that's a one-off, he also saved his wife from paralysis after a riding accident:
In 1993 he revealed that he had warned his wife, Diane, not to move her spine if she should break her neck in a riding accident.
The following day Diane, the inspiration for Lady In Red, fell off her horse and adhered to his advice, saving herself from paralysis.
Don't move your spine if you break your neck - brilliant! Too bad the regular medical community hasn't thought of that!
Oh, wait - they have.
But he doesn't want to make a big deal about it:
"I know the tabloids will get excited by this so I try to play it down."Which, no doubt, is why he mentioned it IN A BBC INTERVIEW! Posted by Chris at October 17, 2006 02:15 PM