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Lyrics By : Tim O'Brien / Darrell Scott

This is a song that nobody knows,
I couldn't begin to describe how it goes
Well it makes me cry or laugh right out loud,
The song that I sing when there's no one around.

This is the man that nobody sees,
He wears my old clothes and he looks just like me
If he learned how to fly he would never touch down,
The man that I am when there's no one around

CHORUS

It's four in the morning, I lie in my bed,
A tape of my failures playing inside my head,
The hardknocks, the heartaches, the things I don't know,
I listen and wonder, where will it go?
This is a glimpse of the child within
He's so immature but he's still my best friend,
Just one of the boys who gets lost in a crowd,
The kid that I am when there's no one around.

CHORUS

This is the dance I do everyday,
I let my feet go an I wander away
I let my soul free and follow the sound,
The dance that I do when there's no one around.

Chorus

This is a song that nobody knows,
I couldn't begin to describe how it goes
Well it makes me cry or laugh right out loud,
The song that I sing when there's no one around.
The dance that I do and follow the sound,
The song deep inside, there's no one around,
The song that I sing when there's no one around.

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Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears

Lyrics By : Brendan Graham

On the first day on January,
Eighteen ninety-two,
They opened Ellis Island and they let
The people through.
And the first to cross the treshold
Of that isle of hope and tears,
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
Who was all of fifteen years.

CHORUS:

Isle of hope, isle of tears,
Isle of freedom, isle of fears,
But it's not the isle you left behind.
That isle of hunger, isle of pain,
Isle you'll never see again
But the isle of home is always on your mind.

In a little bag she carried
All her past and history,
And her dreams for the future
In the land of liberty.
And courage is the passport
When your old world disappears
But there's no future in the past
When you're fifteen years

Chorus

When they closed down Ellis Island
In nineteen fourty-three,
Seventeen million people
Had come there for sanctuary.
And in Springtime when I came here
And I stepped onto it's piers,
I thought of how it must have been
When you're fifteen years.

Chorus

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A Dance as old as Tears

Lyrics By : Jimmy MacCarthy/Kent Robbins

Love is hard and leaving would be easy,
My love, I know we'll find the answer here
While in the night the moth and candlelight
Still dance a dance as old as tears

Chorus :

It's a dance as old as tears,
Rough and smooth like a river.
We'll survive hand in hand 'cross the divide,
Love will deliver.

Love, I know, we were up, now we're down.
Can't you see, it's just a game played by the years.
While every night the moth and candlelight
Still dance a dance as old as tears.

Chorus

Bridge:

So share your heart with me,
Light and dark with me
And I in return
I give my all
With you I yearn to dance
A dance as old as tears,
Rough and smooth like a river.
We'll survive hand in hand 'cross the divide,
Love will deliver.

We'll survive hand in hand 'cross the divide,
Love will deliver.

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If I needed you

Lyrics By : Townes Van Zandt

Chrous :

If I needed you, would you come to me,
Would you come to me for to ease my pain?
If you needed me, I would come to you,
I would swim the seas for to ease your pain.

Oh, the night's forlorn, and the morning's gone
And the morning's born with the light of love.
And you'll miss sunrise if you close your eyes,
And that would break my heart in two.

Chorus

Baby's with me now, since I showed her how
To lay her little hand in mine.
Who could ill agree, she's a sight to see,
A treasure for this poor oy to find.

Chorus

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Crooked Mile

Lyrics By: Mick Hanly

I woke up this morning and I ran a crooked mile,
that's how I started my day,
It took eleven minutes, I said it took me ten,
Oh the silly games we play
I tell myself all the time I'm faster than I am
It's a scam, I lie to my face,
I don't know why I do it when I know that there's only one Horse running this race

Refrain.

And I wonder if I'm fooling myself saying I love you
And I wonder if I cheat this old heart just to be loved
If I'm just a fool and fools only
See what they want things to be
I wonder if you cheat yourself too loving on me.

I go back to your letter, I read it all again
God knows it's balanced and fair
But all I can see are the kisses at the end
And oh the lines that aren't there.
I try to make you laugh, I try to dry your tears
It's okay, it's only the rain,
The pledges and the promises all made in good faith
At the time buckle and strain.

Refrain.

I promise you the full moon , I promise you the stars
I give you a rose in it's prime,
I wait for your sweet kiss, I wait for your touch,
Oh but you're taking your time.
I say we should move in together meanwhile and
You smile but you don't approve,
You say let's be friends which keeps me in the frame
Just about with no room to move.

Refrain.

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Fields of Gold

Lyrics By: Sting

You’ll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of Barley.
You’ll forget the sun in it’s jealous sky
As we walk in fields of Gold.

So she took her love for to gaze a while
Upon the fields of Barley.
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold.

Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of Barley
We’ll forget the sun in it’s jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold.

See the west wind move like a lover’s soul
Upon the fields of Barley
Feel her body rise as you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold.

I never make promises lightly
There may have been some that I’ve broken
But I swear in the days still left
We’ll walk in fields of gold. (Repeat)

Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the Fields of Barley.
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of Gold.

You’ll remember me as the west wind moves
Upon the fields of Barley
You can tell the sun in its jealous sky
That we walked in fields of Gold.

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Killing the Blues

Lyrics By: Rolly Sally

Leaves were falling, just like embers,
In colours, red and gold, to set us on fire
Burning just like moonbeams in our eyes.

Refrain.

Somebody said they saw me. Swingin’ the world by the tail
Jumpin’ over a white cloud, I was killin’ the blues, just killin’ the blues.

And I’m guilty of something
I hope you’ll never do, ‘cause nothing is sadder
Than losing yourself in love.

Refrain.

When you asked me just to leave you
And set out on my own, to find what I needed
You asked me to find what I already had.

Refrain.

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Life is a Bittersweet Waltz

Lyrics By: Craig Safan and Mark Mueller

Some say that life’s an illusion
Who knows what’s false or what’s true
The distant horizon can be quite surprisin’
When finally the journey is through.

In all of it’s glories and all of it’s faults. It seems life is a bittersweet waltz.

Some say the grass is much greener once you get over the fence
If that’s your objective, beware of perspective
Illusions don’t always make sense.

In all of it’s glories and all of it’s faults. It seems life is a bittersweet waltz.

You’ll never know what you’re holding
Till it starts slipping away,
Your best protection is show some affection
To those who are with you today.

In all of it’s glories and all of it’s faults. It seems life is a bittersweet waltz.

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May Morning Dew

Traditional. Arranged: Seán Keane.

How pleasant in Winter to sit by the hob
Listening to the barks and the howls of a dog
Or in Summer to wander the wide valleys through
And to pick the wild flowers in the May morning dew.

Summer is coming, oh Summer is here
With the leaves on the trees and the skies blue and clear
And the birds they are singing their fond note so true
And the flowers they are springing in the May morning dew.

The house I was reared in is but a stone on a stone
And all round the garden the leaves they have grown
And all the kind neighbours that ever I knew
Like the red rose they’ve withered in the May morning dew.

God be with the old folks who are now dead and gone
And likewise my brothers young Denis and John
As they tripped through the heather the wild hare to pursue
With their joys they are mingled with the May morning dew.

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Lullaby

Lyrics By: Dan Seals, R. Vanhoy, with additional lyrics by Charlie Megettigan

Sleep lay me down, hold me closely in your arms
And I will close my eyes.
Please promise me that when I wake up from my dreams
You’ll be there by my side.

Refrain.

Love, if you say you won’t slip away
Then I can go dreaming of forever more
But I won’t rest until
I know that you’ll be here in the morning by my side.

Here in my reach,
I can see the one that I’ve waited for so long
And deep in my heart I’ll know the arms that hold me now
Will hold me from now on.

Refrain.

I dread the dawn I awake and find you gone
Please tell me you will stay.
Then sleep will come, I know the arms that hold me now
Will hold me all my days.

Refrain.

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No Stranger to the Rain

Lyrics By Sonny Curtis/Ron Hellard

I'm no stranger to the rain
I'm a friend of thunder
Friend, is it any wonder
Lightning strikes me
I've fought with the devil
Got down on his level
But never gave in, so he gave up on me.

I'm no stranger to the rain
I can spot bad weather
And I'm good at finding shelter in a downpour
I've been sacrificed by brothers
Crucified by lovers
But through it all, I've withstood the pain
I'm no stranger to the rain.

Refrain.
When I get that foggy feelin'
The one I'm feelin' now
If I don't keep my head I may drown.
It's hard to keep believin'
That I'll even come out even
While the rain beats a hole in the ground
And tonight it's really comin' down

I'm no stranger to the rain
But there'll always be tomorrow
And I'll beg, steal or borrow
A little sunshine I'll put this cloud behind me
That's how the man designed me
To ride the wind and dance in a hurricane
I'm no stranger to the rain (X2)

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Galway

Oliver St.John Gogarty (from the poem "Galway")

A grey town in a country bare, the leaden seas between,
When the light falls on the hills of Clare
And shows their Valleys green.
Take in my heart your place again
Between your lake and sea
Oh city of the watery plain, that means so much to me.

Your cut stone houses row on row
Your streams too deep to sing
Whose waters shine with green as though
They had dissolved the spring.

Your streets that still bring into view the harbour and it's spars,
The chimneys with their turf smoke blue that never hides the stars.
Take in my heart your place again between your lake and sea

Like crimson roses in grey walls your memories to me.
It is not very long since you, for memory is long,
Saw her I owe my being to, and heart that takes the song,
Walk with a row of laughing girls from Salthill to Eyre Square
Light from the water on their curls that never lit so fair.

Take in my heart your place again between your lake and sea,
Like crimson roses in grey walls your memories to me.
Again may come your glorious days, your ships come back to port,
And to your city's shining ways the Spanish girls resort.

And e'er the tidal water falls, your ships put out to sea
Like crimson roses in grey walls your memories to me.
Take in my heart your place again between your lake and sea
Oh, city of the watery plain, that means so much to me.

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Lay down your weary tune

Lyrics By : Bob Dylan

Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the songs you strum
And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum.

Struck by the sounds before the sun
I knew the night had gone
And the morning breeze like a bugle blew
Against the drums of dawn.

Refrain.

The ocean wild like an organ plays
And the seaweed's woven strands
And the crashing waves like the cymbals clash
Against the rocks and sands.

Refrain.

I stood around beneath the skies
And the clouds unbound by laws
And the crying rain like a trumpet sang
And asked for no applause.

The last of the leaves fell from the trees
And clung to a new love's breast,
And the branches bare like a banjo moaned
To the winds that listen the best

Refrain.

I gazed down in the river's mirror
And watched it's whinning strum
It's waters smooth ran like a hymn
And like a harp it hummed.

Refrain (X2).

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We dreamed our Dreams

Lyrics By : Dick Farrelly

We dreamed our dreams
As we walked on the Wicklow byway.
Your promise came like a lark's refrain,
Warm and True
And I gave my promise too.

We dreamed our dreams
As we kissed in the Summer gladness Yet, soon, I cry it would be goodbye
Then you'd be gone

With Autumn chill at our heels
I stood alone
I called your name and heard the silence
Where are you now?
As I linger where vows were whispered
Another Spring, the sweet larks sing
I feel the pain
Did we dream our dreams in vain

Repeat first verse.

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Like the first time, it's Christmas Time

Lyrics By : Tommy Sands

Your childhood, it was stolen
By sad and troubled times
Belfast was crying for some star to shine
It wasn't much like Christmas
When peace was nowhere near
But now a star is shining
And hope is in the air

Chorus

Like the first time, it's Christmas time,
I feel it in the breeze
All over Ireland, they're singing for peace
Like the first time, it's Christmas time,
Standing by your side
Singin with the children, "Silent Night".
I know your darling, Marie,
She never will return
And the young lads in the showband
No longer sing their song
But all the ones so near and dear
Who fill you with delight
Will gently join our chorus
And sing with us tonight

Chorus

I hear the small birds singing
In the bushes of Tyrone
The piper in the Derry Air
No longer plays alone
So sing it from the mountainside
That sweeps down to the sea
All I want for Christmas
Is a land of love and peace

Chorus.

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Home Away From Home

Lyrics By : Robbie O'Connell

I didn't sleep at all last night,
I stayed up 'til the dawn,
Banging out the jigs and reels 'til everyone had gone,
Singing some old shut-eyed songs I hadn't sung for years,
Knocking back the brandy and the beer.

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Back across the ocean to my home away from home
I'm Glad to be returning but sad to have to go
I'd like to find a way to be two places at one time
It's easy going back again but it's hard to say goodbye

I had one bag too many just as I was set to leave
I was loaded down with bacon and with sausages and tea
And I couldn't find my ticket as I'm walking out the door
'Til I emptied all my bags out on the floor.

CHORUS

On board the plane I sip a drink while waiting for the meal,
Just trying not to let my head know how my stomach feels.
There's a baby right behind me making sure that I won't sleep
And the flight's too full to find another seat.

CHORUS

I fell asleep at last just as the plane is touching down
And I age ten years just waiting for the bags to come around
And I make it home at last and I'm barely un-packed when
I'm already making plans to go again.

CHORUS X2

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Blue Green Bangle

Lyrics By : Johnny Mulhearn

Black clouds scudding 'cross the midland sky
In the bedroom mirror Sandy catches her eye
Full of tears to watch that Texan's car fade away
In the distance

He was telling her before the mine's closing down
Husband Jimmy now will be home everyday
The company's pullin' out and he's heading home
To his own family way back in Galveston

Chorus:
And he handed her a blue green bangle
That he found in the hills outside Slane
Said someday when this is all forgotten
You can pick it up and think of me again

"Well he's gone" she said "he has his plunder done
And I'll only be remembered as the Irish one"
With that she opened up the windows wide
And flung the blue green bangle
Far down the muddy drive

Later she awoke with a rattle on the door
Stands her husband Jimmy and her uncle Joe
Linked together singing some wild rebel songs
From so long ago

Jimmy looked at her with a twinkle in his eye
Says "a gyppo gave me this for you, a surprise
Says whoever wears it will live contentedly
Provided they don't tell any lie"

And he handed her a blue green bangle
That he found outside on the muddy drive
And she dropped her wrist and he slipped it on
He was glad it fitted her so fine

And he handed her a blue green bangle
That laid in the earth for so long
And he grabbed her by the waist
And he whisked her round the place
While Uncle Joe diedled out the door

Black clouds scudding 'cross the midland sky
In the bedroom mirror Sandy catches her eye
Full of tears to watch that Texan's car fade away
In the distance

He was telling her before the mine's closing down
Husband Jimmy now will be home everyday
The company's pullin' out and he's heading home
To his own family way back in Galveston

And he handed her a blue green bangle
That laid in the earth for so long
And he grabbed her by the waist
And he whisked her round the place
While Uncle Joe diedled out the door

(repeat verse)

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Man From Connemara

Lyrics By : Robbie O'Connell

He spent his youth among the stones
The ocean thundered in his bones
His heart was tempered by its drone
The man from Connemara

He always stood out from the crowd
This noble horse both strong and proud
He liked to speak his thoughts out loud
The man from Connemara

When he was young he took a mind
To leave his native home behind
Meet any challenge he would find
The man from Connemara

He made his way across the sea
And started his own family
He never lost his dignity
The man from Connemara

He spent his youth among the stones
The ocean thundered in his bones
His heart was tempered by its drone
The man from Connemara

He carved his place in foreign lands
And forged a new life with his hands
And by his word he'd always stand
The man from Connemara

His life was written in his songs
His melodies were old and strong
They hit you hard and lingered long
The man from Connemara

He spent his youth among the stones
The ocean thundered in his bones
His heart was tempered by its drone
The man from Connemara

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Abandoned Love

Lyrics By : Bob Dylan

I can see the turning of the key
I've been deceived by the clown inside of me
I thought that he was righteous but he's afraid
But there's something tellin' me I wear the ball and chain

My patron saint is fighting with a ghost
He's always off somewhere when I need him most
The Spanish moon is rising on the hill
But my heart is tellin' me I love you still

Everybody's wearing a disguise
To hide what they've got left behind their eyes
But me, I can't cover what I am
Wherever the children go I'll follow them

I march in the parade of liberty
But as long as I love you I'm not free.
How long must I suffer such abuse
Won't you let me see you smile one time
Before I turn you loose

We sat in an empty theatre and we kissed,
I asked you please to cross me off your list
My head tells me it's time to make a change
But my heart is tellin' me
I love you but you're strange

One more time at midnight, near the wall
Take off your heavy make-up and your shawl
Won't you come down from the throne, from where you sit
Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it

I come back to the town from the flaming moon
I see you in the streets, I begin to swoon.
I love to see you dress before the mirror
Won't you let me in your room one time
Before I finally disappear

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Erin's Lovely Home

Trad. Arr. Keane/McGlynn/Faulkner

When I was young and in my prime,
The age being twenty-one,
I acted as a servant to
A noble gentleman
I served him true and honestly,
And 'tis well it's known
But cruely, he banished me
From Erin's lovely home

The reason for my banishment,
I mean to let you know,
It's true I loved his daugter
And she loved me also,
She had a very large fortune
But riches I had none,
And that's the reason I must go
From Erin's lovely home

It was in her father's garden,
All in the month of June
Viewing these fine roses,
All in their youthful bloom
She said; "My dearest Willy,
If along with me you'll roam,
We'll bid farewell to all our friends
And Erin's lovely Home"

We landed into Belfast town,
By the break of day,
My true love, she got ready
Our passage for to pay
Five thousand pounds she counted down,
Saying "This will be your own,
For we never can return again to Erin's lovely home"

But to our sad misfortune,
I mean to let you hear,
It was in the few hours after
Her father did appear,
He brought me back to Omagh Jail,
In the County of Tyrone,
There I was tried and banished
From Erin's lovely home

As I laid under sentence
Before I went away
My true love, she stepped upto me
And this to me did say
"Cheer up my dearest Willy,
It's you I'll ne'er disown
Until you return again
To Erin's lovely home

The parting with my own true love
Grieves my heart full sore
But the parting with my native home
Grieves my ten times more
There are seven links upon my chain
And every link a year
It's then I can return again
To the arms of my dear

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Age of Uncertainty

Lyrics By : Tommy Sands

I still can hear the master say "sing it,
Two and two are four",
Walking up and walking down
And walkin’ round the floor,
And that was in the good old days
When poetry, it rhymed,
And we couldn’t wait for three
O’clock and the freedom bells to chime.

CHORUS:

In the age of uncertainty,
Freedom doesn’t feel so free,
Feelin’ doesn’t feel the same
When I think of you and me again.

And someone surely somewhere
Somehow can recall a time
We didn’t have to lock our doors to
Strangers in the night-time,
For we were neighbours’ children
And dancers danced in time
And we couldn’t wait for twelve
O’clock for our parents to say goodnight.

CHORUS

There was comfort in the garden in
The apple blossom time,
The golden book was black and white,
And it kept us all in line,
But when the walls came tumbling
Down like castle made of sand
It’s time that we were going back to
Where it all began.

CHORUS

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Tunnel Tigers

Lyrics By: Ewan MacColl

Hares run free on the Wicklow Mountains,
Wild geese fly and the foxes play,
Courting Wicklow boys are working
Driving a tunnel through the London clay.

CHORUS:

Up with the shield, jack it, ram it,
Drive a tunnel through the London clay.

Lough Derg trout grow fat and lazy
Salmon sport in the Cushla Bay,
The fish are in off Connemara
Drive a tunnel through the London clay.

CHORUS

The currachs rot on Achill Island,
Tourists walk on the Newport Quay,
The Mayo boys are all gone roving,
Digging a tunnel through the London clay.

CHORUS

Below Armagh the wild ducks breeding,
Wild fowl gather on Lough Ree
The sporting boys of Longford County
Are digging a tunnel through the London clay.

CHORUS

The Carlow girls are fine and handsome
All decked out so neat and gay,
The Carlow boys don’t come to court them,
They’re driving a tunnel through the London clay.

CHORUS

Down in the dark are the tunnel tigers,
Far from the sun and the light of day,
Down in the land the sea once buried,
Driving a tunnel through the London clay.

CHORUS

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Once I Loved

Trad. Arr. By Seán Keane

Once I loved with fond affection
One whose thoughts were dear to me.
'Til there came a dreary parting
Never more will she speak to me.

CHORUS:

Go and leave me if you wish to,
Never let me cross your mind,
If you think I proved unworthy
Go and leave me, I don't mind.

Many's the night love as you lay sleeping,
Dreaming in some sweet repose,
While I, a poor lad's left broken hearted
Listening to the wind that blows.

Now you've gone and loved another,
One who has more gold and store,
Whilst I, a young lad does lie aweeping,
Left alone because I'm poor.

CHORUS

Here's the ring that once you gave me,
When our hearts they did entwine,
Now give it to some dark haired laddie,
He'll never know that it once was mine.

Farewell to friends and kind relations,
Farewell to you my false young girl,
It's you has caused me such pain and sorrow,
That never will I return.

CHORUS

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Green Among The Gold

Lyrics By: Rosalind and Steve Barnes

Dusty plains and iron chains met Erin's sons and daughters
Cast upon a barren land, a far off distant shore.
They dreamed of misty mountains in their home across the water,
They sang of Connemara and the home they'd see no more.
Now limestone walls are all that's left of times of pain and failure,
This country yields the secrets of the beauty that it holds
And the tunes of Erin's isle are now the music of Australia,
For Irish hands have woven strands of green among the gold.

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And so beneath the Southern cross
They sang their songs of Ireland,
They sent her sons and daughters there in the hungry days of old,
They played their jigs and reels
Beneath the skies of their new homeland,
For Irish hands have woven strands of green among the gold.

Nowadays when times are hard at home,
Some people take a notion
To start a brand new life upon the far side of the globe,
And now they find their hearts are stranded somewhere in mid-ocean,
Though their days are full of sunshine and their future's full of hope.

Their children sing a broken life of
Shearers and bush rangers,
They learn to play our music and to dance
The steps of old.
Though their hearts are in Australia,
They never will be strangers
To the land they left behind them,
They're the green among the gold.

CHORUS

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Writing On The Wall

Lyrics By: Mick Hanly

I've broken all your bones
And promises I gave,
Sat upon some throne,
Like the one who owned a slave.
And I never had the guts
To turn to you at all
And I constantly ignored
The writing on the wall

I've listened to your dreams
With one ear on the shelf,
Fed you reams and reams
Of stuff about myself,
And I ploughed on like the blind
Regardless of a fall
Because I couldn't see
The writing on the wall

And when the hammer fell,
It was like a mortal blow
And I turned around to see
Someone I didn't know.
And I thought I knew you well,
Oh, I thought I knew it all,
But I never thought I'd see
The writing on the wall

We hurt the ones we love,
To see how they might bend,
Push our luck so far
That we break them in the end.
And the day that we wake up
They've gone beyond recall
Because we couldn't see the writing on the wall

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Meeting Is A Pleasure

Trad. Arr. By Seán Keane

Oh meeting is a pleasure between my love and I,
And it's down in yonder valley
I would meet her by and by,
It's down in yonder valley,
There lives my heart's delight,
And it's with you, lovely Molly,
I will stay 'til the broad daylight.

While going to mass on Sunday,
My true love, she passed me by
And I knew her mind had altered
By the roving of her eye,
I knew her mind had altered
On a lad of high degree
So, it's farewell, lovely Molly,
Your thoughts have wounded me.

I stepped up to my own true love
With a bottle in my hand,
Saying take you lovely Molly
For our courtship, it's at it's end
Saying drink you off the top,
Leave the bottom unto me,
For there's money made and wagers
Laid that it's married we ne'er shall be.

And never marry a fair young maid
With a blue and roving eye,
Just take her in your arms and don't
Tell her the reason why,
Just take her in your arms 'til
You feel her heart to yield,
For a faint hearted soldier will
Never gain the field.

So farewell Ballymoney, likewise
The sweet Bann Shore,
Fare thee well to McCusky Braes,
That place I shall ne'er see more.
For America lies far away,
It's a place I shall soon go see,
And a curse upon the Kerryman who
Has parted my love from me.

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Music Of Healing

Lyrics By: Tommy Sands

Don't beat the drum,
That fightens the children,
Don't sing the songs
About winning and losing.
Sit down beside me,
The green fields are bleeding.
Sing me the music of healing

Sing me a song of a lover's returning
The darker the night, the nearer the morning.
Bring me the news of a new day that's dawning,
Sing me the music of healing.

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Ah, ah, the heart's a wonder,
Stronger than the guns of thunder,
Even when we're torn asunder,
Love will come again

Sometimes the truth's like
A hare in the cornfield
You know that it's there
But you can't put your arms round it.
All you can hope for is to follow it's footprints
Sing me the music of healing.

Who would have thought I could
Feel so contented to learn
I was wrong after all of my rambles.
I've learned to be hard
And I've learned to be humble,
Sing me the music of healing

CHORUS

Sometimes the cycle of vengeance
Keeps turning
'Til each others sorrows and songs
We start learning.
Peace is the prize for those who are daring
Sing me the music of helaing.

Time is your friend,
It cures all your sorrows
But how can I wait for another tomorrow
One step today and a thousand will follow
Sing me the music of healing.

CHORUS

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From Galway To Graceland

Lyrics By: Richard Thompson

Oh she dressed in the dark
And she whispered 'Amen'
She was pretty and pink
Like a young girl again.
Twnety years married and
She never thought twice
She sneaked out the door and
Walked into the night
And silver wings carried her
Over the sea
From the West coast of Ireland
To West Tennesee,
To be with her sweetheart,
She left everything,
From Galway to Graceland
To be with the king.

She was humming 'suspicion',
That's the song she liked best,
She had 'Elvis, I Love you'
Tatooed on her breast,
When she landed in Memphis,
Well her heart beat so fast,
She'd dreamed for so long,
Now she'll see him at last.
She was down by his graveside
Day after day, come closing time,
They would pull her away,
To be with her sweetheart,
She left everything,
From Galway to Graceland
To be with the king

Oh they came in their thousands,
From the whole human race,
To pay their respects
At his last resting place,
Oh blindly she knelt there,
And she told him her dreams,
And she thought that he answered
Well that's how it seems.
And they dragged her away,
It was handcuffs this time,
She said "my good man, are you
Out of your mind?
Don't you know we are married,
See, I'm wearing his ring,
From Galway to Graceland
To be with the king;
I've come from Galway
To Graceland to be with
The king."

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Stór mo chroí

Trad. Arr. Seán Keane

A stór mo chroí, when you're far away
From the home you will soon be leaving,
It's many's the time by night and by day
When you're heart will be sorely grieving.
For the stranger's land may be bright and fair
Rich in it's treasures golden,
You will pine, I know,
For days long, long ago
And the one that is never olden.

A stór mo chroí, in the stranger's land
There is plenty of wealth and wailing,
Where gems adorn the great and the grand,
There are faces with hunger pailing,
When the road is tiresome and hard to tread,
And the lights of their cities blind you,
Oh turn, a stór, to Erin's shore
And the one that you leave behind you.

A stór mo chroí, when the evening mist
Over mountain and sea is falling,
Oh turn, a stór, and you will list
And maybe you'll hear me calling.
For the sound of voice you will surely miss,
Somebody speedily returning
A rún, a rún, won't you come back soon
To the one that will always love you.

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Home

Lyrics By: A. Spooner, F.Lehner

The only thing I see ahead is just
The heat rising off the road,
The rainbows I keep chasing
Keep on fading before I find
My crock of gold,
And more and more I'm thinking
That the only treasures
That I'll ever know,
Are long ago and far behind
And wrapped up in my memories of home.

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Home was a swimming hole and a
Fishing pole and the feel of the
Muddy road beneath my toes,
Home was a back porch swing
Where I would sit and Mama sang
'Amazing Grace' while she hung out
The clothes,
Home was an easy chair with my Daddy there
And the smell of Sunday supper on the stove,
My footsteps carry me away but in my mind,
I'm always going home.

The miles that lay behind weren't as
Hard as the miles that lay ahead
And it's too late to listen
To the words of wisdom that my Daddy said,
And the straight and narrow path he showed me
Turned into a thousand winding roads,
My footsteps carry me away but in my mind,
I'm always going home.

Chorus

And the straight and narrow path he showed me
Turned into a thousand winding roads
My footsteps carry me away but in my mind,
I'm always going home.

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Sweet Inishcara

Trad. Arr. Seán Keane, Arty McGlynn, John Faulkner

I have rambled in exile mid cruel hearted strangers,
Far, far from my home and the beautiful Lee,
I have struggled alone through
All hardship and danger,
And braved every fate on the land
And the sea.
From Columbia's wild forests to India's
Spiced bowers,
On the great foreign rivers whose sands
Are of gold,
I have sighed for thee still mid
The birds and the flowers
I love you and will till my
Heart does grow old.

I have roved with fair maidens with
Dark flowing tresses
And beautiful eyes have looked kindly on me,
But I thought with regret
Of the smiles and carresses
Of that fair haired young maiden
That dwelt by the Lee.
And now I've returned but she's not
In her bower,
Where the river flows past with
It's small tiny waves,
I have called her in vain,
For the ivory crowned tower
Of sweet Inishcara o'ershadows her grave.

The home of my childhood,
To ruin it is falling,
And the loved ones that blessed it
Will greet me no more,
But I look on it still,
Joyous visions recalling,
Though the tall grass has grown
On the step of the door.
I would rest with thee soon
With the shamrock above me,
From my own native Cork,
No more shall I roam
Till I'm laid in the grave
With the dear ones that love me,
As in death they will welcome their
Wanderer home.

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Like I used to Do

Lyrics By: T.O'Brien/ P.Alger

There was a time when we'd be the last to leave,
Watching the sun come up while everyone fell asleep
The music was always loud, I'd smoke and drink too much,
Until I'd fall in your arms and into your loving touch
Now as the years roll by, time has reeled me in,
I've slowed down down a notch or two from The way things were then.

Those old ways of mine, I've left them behind
Those crazy days are through,
The only thing I still do like I used to do is carry this
torch for you.

Remember the days when we'd pack our bags and run,
Chasing some crazy dream into the morning sun.
Now as the twilight falls, I find I'm satisfied watchin' the fire
glow just as long as you're by my side.
Here in my heart it seems time has passed me by
I love you as much today as the very first time.

Those old ways of mine, I've left them behind
Those crazy days are through,
The only thing I still do like I used to do is carry this
torch for you.

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