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A Stones Throw From The Soul Nothing's gonna change my world. Songwriter: Noel Brazil Adam At The Window Lyrics: Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Love showed me it's riches late last spring Took me to it's breast and gave me wings Lyrics: I truly did believe Adam's at the window And still I was deceived Staring at teh apple trees on fire Love made me it's witness one fine spring Waiting for the windfall That brings the smile of kings and their desire Life seemed dark and beautiful at once Door blows in behind him All mixed upside down and back to front A floral pattern summer dress so gay It was hard to know what's what Burning in the sunlight The light went on and off Too late to wait Life was stark and plentiful at once For darkenss won't delay To steal her cherry lips away Maybe time really does heal wounds For while the coareless tongues of sunlight Maybe love doesn't know Slowly trickle down A mere heartbeat from happiness The curve of hips her fingertips A stone's throw from the soul In kissing sips we drown In kissing sips we drown Days lived with a will Days as fine as can be Chorus: Days grace on my morning pillow And Adam will have his way Days I'm longing to see Adam will have his way

Sunlight blows the winter one last kiss Adam's on the island Me I hold my breath and make my wish Living in the land of love We live through thick and thin Shadows lurk around him Where evil sometimes wins Drunk on the royal jelly of pure love Me I try my best and think of this Full and ripe the fruit hang For when the prince arrives he will want more That maybe time really does heal wounds And more and more he will drink from the canvas cup And maybe love doesn't know The son of a swan will then loose his plumera A mere heartbeat from happiness And he will wear a new age suit A stone's throw from the sould And haunt the joints in town And play a silver magic flute Across The Universe And call his lovers down Songwriter: J. Lennon/P. McCarthy And call his lovers down

Lyrics: Chorus: Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup, And Adam will have his way They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe Adam will have his way Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my Adam will have his way open mind, Possessing and caressing me. Adam's at the easel Jai Guru De Va Om Painting in the wrinkles and the grey Nothing's gonna change my world, Waiting for November Nothing's gonna change my world. Easy with the darkness of the day Smiles a tear of gladness Images of broken light which dance before me like a And Adams at the window once again million eyes, Burning in the sunlight That call me on and on across the universe, Too late to wait Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box For darkness won't delay they To steal her cherry lips away Tumble blindly as they make their way For while the careless tongues of sunlight Across the universe Slowly trickle down Jai Guru De Va Om The curve of hips, her fingertips Nothing's gonna change my world, In kissing sips we drown Nothing's gonna change my world. In kissing sips we drown

Sounds of laughter shades of love are ringing Chorus... Through my open ears [views] inciting and inviting me Repeat Chorus... Limitless undying love which shines around me like a Million suns, it calls me on and on Ae Fond Kiss Across the universe Songwriter: Traditional Arr. Mary Black (Lyrics by Robert Jai Guru De Va Om Burns 1759–1796) Nothing's gonna change my world, Lyrics: Throw my heart out on the stones and I'm almost gone Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! Ae farewel, and then, for ever! There's no meaning in clothes and coffee cups Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Cheap hotel furniture where silence never stops Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Through the water through the ring Who shall say that Fortune grieves her To the sould of everything While the star of hope she leaves her? Cry my eyes out to the winds and I'm almost gone Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me. Almost gone

Had we never loved sae kindly, And I'm dreaming just staring at the walls Had we never loved sae blindly, At cars all frozen now and street light waterfalls Never met or never parted, We would ne'er been broken-hearted. Through the water through the ring To the soul of everything Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest! Throw my heart out on the stone and I'm almost gone Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest! Through the water through the ring Thine be ilka joy and treasure, To the soul of everything Peace, enjoyment, love, and pleasure! Wash my heart out on the stones And I'm almost gone Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! Ae farewel, and then, for ever! Almost gone Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Amhrán Hiúdaí Phádai Éamoinn Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Songwriter: Aodh Ó Domhnaill

All That Hammering Lyrics: Songwriter: John Gorka Tá Leac Shéamais sa cheann tráigh go huaigneach Ó d'imigh tú uainne gan cháin Lyrics: Níl anois insa tsruthán ach caoineadh I used to think joy, was the break between sorrow, Ag éalú go ciúin síos an déan Like peace was the break between wars, Tá na sméara uilig feoite ar an chaorthann I'm still partly new now, but mostly older, Níl cuideachta féin fán lic bháin; And I can not say I'm so sure. Ó tá tocht agus smúid ar do chairde, 'S tú sínte ar an mhalaidh faoi chlár. CHORUS A Hiúdaí na gcuirlin dubh dualach, I never trusted happiness, as far as I could throw it, Nach trua dúinn anseo in do dheoidh Always preparing for the worst, 'cause I would know it, Nach dona mar cloíodh do chaoinchorp All of that hammering in the dark, like a new Noah I gcéin uainn i gcoire Loch Awe working on his ark, Ó tháinig do scairt insan oíche On his ark. Bhí corrán an bháis i do chomhair. Ó mo thrua nach dtáinig do tharrtháil I may look back at today and feel foolish, Ach do chairde ag sileadh na ndeor My old view was right all along, I will rush in, where no angels are walking, Tá do bhean is do chlann do do chaoi-se And fight for the right to be wrong. Agus beidh nó go dté siad faoi chré; Do dhís bheag leanbh 'thug gean duit CHORUS Nach bhfeiceann siad thú lena ré. Tá do mháthair faoi ghruaim is í cráite 'Cause I never trusted happiness, as far as I could throw Ach agraimid uile Mac Dé it, Go bhfuil tusa go hard insna Flaithis Always preparing for the worst, 'cause I would know it, I bParthas na naomh faoi réim. of that hammering in the dark, like a new Noah working on his ark, English Translation On his ark. Lament for hiudái phádaí éamoinn

Between my potential and the deep blue sea, Leac Shéamais by the shoreline lies lonely There's a rock and a diamond either side of me, Since you we held dear are now gone Between our potential and the break of day, There's nothing in the stream now but weeping There is nothing at all in our way, As quietly it runs down the strand. Nothing in our way. On the rowan the berries are withered There's no company around the Leac Bhán Almost Gone Your friends are both stricken and silent Songwriter: David Gray For under boards you'll lie stretched from now on

Lyrics: O hiudai with hair black and curling As I'm leaving a change come on my eyes Desolation came over us all These streets persuading me with mumbled strange When we heard how your body was broken goodbyes Far away in the glen of Loch Awe Your call it came in the night time Through the water through the ring When the sickle of death cut you down To the soul of everything My heart's pity that help never reached you and your friends were left here to mourn. You that are her maidens go take me by the hand Your wife and your family lament you And take me to the chamber that me love she lies in As they will till they go to the grave And he's kissed her cold lips till his heart has turned to Your two small children who loved you stone Who never will see you again. And he's died in the chamber that his love she lies in Your mother's tormented with sorrow But to God's Son all of us pray Another Day That you are now above us in Heaven Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy In Paradise with the saints. Lyrics: Anachie Gordon Hey little brother the winds of the world Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement Mary Black Have ruffled your soft and weakened wings And though I can't hold you as I look into your eyes Lyrics: I can see the film that disappointment brings Harking is bonnie I know it's rained upon your childhood dreams And there lives my love The games you've been playing My heart lies on him Weren't quite what they seemed And will not remove How can I tell you don't bang your head against the wall It will not remove The wall I've been banging and praying might fall Oh for all that I have done Oh I never will forget my love Anachie Your time will come on another day And your dreams will flame and in the fire play For Anachie Gordon On another day He's bonnie and he's rough He'd entice any woman that ever he saw I know it's hard for you to understand He'd entice any woman and so he has done me There are no flying angels come to lend a hand Oh I never will forget my love Anachie No smiling faces lined for you to meet It looks like that in twisted glass Down came her father and he's standing by the door From the kind side of the street Saying Jeannie you're trying the tricks of a whore You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for Chorus thee You must marry Lord Sulton and leave Anachie Repeat 1st verse For Anachie Gorden, he's barely but a man Although he may be pretty but where are his lands? Chorus Oh the Sulton's lands are broad and his towers they run high As I Leave Behind Neidin You must marry Lord Sulton and leave Anachie Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy

With Anachie Gordon I'd beg for my bread Lyrics: And before I'll marry Sulton it's gold to my head As I leave behind Néidín With gold to my head and gowns fringed to the knee It's like purple splashed on green And I'll die if I don't get me love Anachie My soul is strangely fed And you that are my parents to Church you may me Through the winding hills ahead bring And she plays a melody But unto Lord Sulton I'll never bear a song On wind and streams for me To a son or a daughter, I'll never bow my knee And I'll die if I don't get me love Anachie Chorus

Jeannie was married and from church she was brought Won't you remember home Won't you remember And when she and her maidens so merry should have Won't you remember me been Won't you remember When she and her maidens so merry should have been Won't you remember She went into her chambers she cried all alone Won't you remember me

Come to bed now Jeannie me honey and my sweet And we wind and climb and fall For to style you my mistress it would be so sweet Like the greatest waltz of all Be it mistress or Jeannie it's all the same to me Float across the floor But in your bed Lord Sulton I never will lie Her sweet breath outside the door And down came her father and he's spoken with reknown And it's time that I was gone Saying you that are her maidens go loosen off her gowns Cross the silver tear But she fell down to the floor so close down by his knee Saying father look I'm dying for me love Anachie Chorus

The day that Jeannie married was the day that Jeannie As I leave behind Néidín died In the hall where we have been And the day that yound Anachie came home on the tide Rhododendrons in her hair And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands In the mountain scented air Saying oh it's been so long you've spent so long on the I still feel her spirit song sands Cross the silver tear Oh so long on the sands, so long on the flood They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead Chorus His heavy loss we Bantry girls will never cease to mourn Babes In The Woods We'll resign ourselves to our sad lot and die in grief and Songwriter: Noel Brazil pain Since Johnny died for Ireland's pride in the foreign land Lyrics: of Spain Babes in the wood walking thru' snow Big bad wolf at the window Beautiful Not much choice in the matter now Songwriter: Amy Kanter Some must lead some must follow Lyrics: Touch can mean distance to some people Long long before I put a face on love Touch can mean prison or be like a cage The one thing I knew was that I always thought that life could be more simple Like anything love can surprise you Specially in this day and age One kiss and you brought me a lifetime Do you know what that means to me Chorus You give me the answer to whether I bleed Deep in the darkest night oh, I wake you They got the time they got the need To tell you I know that life is so beautiful with you The world's getting weird the wolf's running free But that's another story this their story And time will tell What hurt and what I felt Babes in the wood eager and keen This open road Soft as the fern underneath them Is long and beautiful Wet to the skin from their own hot glow No more wolf at the window For every minute you need me I want to need you In every fear life is brand new Touch can mean distance to some people Deep in the darkest night oh, I wake you Touch can mean I own you forever and a day And tell you I know that life is so beautiful with you If only life could be more simple Specially in this day and age And time will tell What hurt and what I felt Chorus This open road Is long and beautiful But touch can be a blessing to other people Touch can bring blossom to things that decay And time will tell I think life should be that simple What hurt and what I felt Specially in this day and age This open road Is long and beautiful Chorus... And time will tell Bantry Girl's Lament What hurt and what I felt Traditional This open road Is long and beautiful Lyrics: And time will tell Oh, Who will plough the fields now or who will sow the corn? Big Trip To Portland Who will mind the sheep now and keep them neatly Songwriter: Noel Brazil shorn? The stack that's in the haggard, unthrashed it may Lyrics: remain The day won't open it's eyes Since Johnny's went a-thrashing the dirty king of Spain The heavens above must be sick The girls from the bawnogue in sorrow may retire I'm stood at the windows since five And the piper and his bellows go home and blow the fire All decked out for the trip Since Johnny, lovely Johnny is sailing o'er the main Along with other patriots to fight the King of Spain Hey Hey I'm dying to meet with you Hey Hey I'm living to speak with you The boys will surely miss him when Moneymore comes Hey Hey I'm waiting to meet you baby round Hey Hey Hey And they'll find that their bold captain is nowhere to be found Chorus And the peelers must stand idle, all against their will and main Big trip to Portland Since the gallant boys who gave them work now peels No more cooling my heels the King of Spain Big trip to Portland My soul shall be healed At wakes or hurling matches your like we'll never see Till you come back to us again a stor gra geal mo chroi The master's out of my reach And won't you thrash the buckeens that show us much He wanders around in the rain disdain Today is all that I seek Because our eyes are not so bright as those you'll meet Today when I hold you again in Spain Hey Hey

If cruel fate will not permit our Johnny to return Chorus I take the prize I win the day Songwriter: Barbara Keith. Arrangement The Black You say you love me all the way Family I kill the pain that drags you down You take us on from town to town Lyrics: We have been so close together The sun's burning all thru' the day Each a candle and each a flame It's doing the best it can do All the dangers were outside us I came with my bucket and spade And we knew them all by name I came with the same things as you Chorus Chorus Big trip to Portland See how the bramble and the rose intertwine No more cooling my heels Love grows like the bramble and the rose Big trip to Portland Often cruel and often kind My soul shall be healed Now it hurts you and it hurts me Bless The Road Just to see what we can do Songwriter: Steve Cooney Give ourselves unto each other Without ever meaning to Lyrics: Remember when we walked on hills of heather Chorus Singing weaving mystical rings Now in a while my precious child Throw your loving arms around me You wil unfurl your wings And sing for me a true love song And I'll have lost what I believed And the words sung together Had promised everything I could sing them all night long But before you go my friend, my kind companion Listen to this song I sing Chorus

Then go in peace and grow in grace and goodness See how the bramble and the rose intertwine Know that you have nothing to fear Love grows like the bramble and the rose And dry your eyes my little one 'Round each other we will wind And let there be no tears Send me a dream from away beyond Brand New Star I promise I shall hear Songwriter: Kieran Gross Oh beautifull beloved soul companion Thank you for those beautifull years Lyrics:

And heaven hold and watch your way forever Every now and then you like to take it easy May your every dream com true Sit right back and view the situation Forgive all wrong, always be strong The future is brighter And do what you must do Soon we'll be riding on the crest of a wave You stand before this open door And you must now go through Chorus My precious friend, my own my sweet companion Bless the road that carries you Goodbye to all your troubles My precious friend, myu own my sweet companion Change of heart the world will start today Bless the road that carries you It's a new beginning See it shining like a brand new star Both Sides The Tweed Songwriter: Dick Gaughan Well if you're thinkin' that you'll end up crying Maybe all you need is to get away from friends Lyrics: And the walls around you Find a shore step into the sun What's the spring-breathing jasmine and rose ? What's the summer with all its gay train Chorus Or the splendour of autumn to those Who've bartered their freedom for gain? I won't be a burden upon your shoulder Let the love of our land's sacred rights I will give you wings so you can fly To the love of our people succeed To lands where you're dreams surround you Let friendship and honour unite Find a shore step into the sun And flourish on both sides the Tweed. Chorus... No sweetness the senses can cheer Which corruption and bribery bind Bright Blue Rose No brightness that gloom can e'er clear Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy For honour's the sum of the mind Lyrics: Let virtue distinguish the brave Place riches in lowest degree I skimmed across black water, without once submerging Think them poorest who can be a slave Onto the banks of an urban morning Them richest who dare to be free That hungers the first light, much much more Than mountains ever do. Bramble And The Rose And she like a ghost beside me, goes down with the ease of a dolphin I was hiding in the corner And emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed When a voice called to me For she is the perfect creature, natural in every feature He understood my mystery And I am the geek with the alchemists' stone Healed the wounds of my despair And with his grace he tenderly Chorus Brushed the tangles from my hair

For all of you who must discover, I'm feeling better by the hour For all who seek to understand, I think I just might be o.k. For having left the path of others Though bridges burn and ashes shower You find a very special hand Think I can live with what remains

And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time As I sorted through the wreckage And it is the only way Sitting in my silent fast Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so On my bed of hard earned ashes it goes Still repenting for my past To ponder his death and his life eternally My body ached and shook with anger As I walked through narrow gates Chorus Ans I left those walls behind me And with them my mistakes For all of you who must discover For all who seek to understand, I'm feeling better by the hour For having left the path of others I think I just might be o.k. You find a very special hand Though bridges burn and ashes shower Think I can live with what remains And it is a holy thing And it is the only way By The Time It Gets Dark Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so Songwriter: Sandy Denny it goes To ponder his death and his life eternally Lyrics:

One bright blue rose outlives all those Baby every cloud has a silver lining Two thousand years and still it goes Baby every dog really has his day To ponder his death and his life eternally And it matters to me to see you smiling Why don't you blow all your cares away Broken Wings Yesterday is gone and will be forgotten Songwriter: Dougie McLean And today is where every new day starts Got to be free as the leaves in the autumn Lyrics: You may be sad but it will never last.

A tall tree turn and face the west Chorus Oh we're running with the wind Mabye by the evening we'll be laughing A high clifftop we're waiting with the rest Just wait and see all the changes there'll be For this journey to begin By the time it gets dark

Chorus Carolina Rua Songwriter: Tom Moore But these broken wings won't fly These broken wings won't fly Lyrics: These broken wings won't fly at all Stories never end 'til you come to conclusions: And Oh how we laugh but maybe we should crawl Carolina ruadh has a hand in my confusion. And ask to be excused Waits for me to choose which quarter to bend in. We shout loudly, have answers to it all To Susie-Make-Me-Blue, or the redhead I'm attending. Oh but we have been refused Oh Carolina ruadh has my heart and all I want to do's Chorus Go down the windy road where my Carolina goes: Down the crooked road where Carolina goes to school Girl child Mo Charolina ruadh, do you love me? You're dancing with the stream Tell me true, tell me...... Growing with the silver trees Standing on three queens, thought the game was over. Your young questions Then, from the blue, Carolina's at my shoulder: You ask me what it means Laughter in her eyes and a smile Oh but I am not at ease That touches all the guys

Chorus On down the crooked road where Carolina goes to school --Mo Charolina ruadh, do you love me? By The Hour Tell me true, tell me.. Songwriter: Larry Klein - David Batteau Colcannon Lyrics: Trad. Arrangement The Black Family

I was broken by the power Lyrics: I was swallowed by the need Well did you ever make colcannon, And as tide must ebb and flow made with lovely pickled cream I am dragged down under With the greens & scallions mingled And I wait the livelong day like a pitcher in a dream For an end to my hunger Did you ever make a hole on top to hold the meltin' flake So I dream of Columbus Or the creamy flavoured butter Every time that the panic starts that our mother's used to make I dream of Columbus With my maps and my beautiful charts Chorus I dream of Columbus And there's peace in a traveling heart Oh you did, so you did I dream of Columbus so did he and so did I And the more I think about it Crazy Man Michael sure the nearer I'm to cry Songwriter: Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick Oh weren't them the happy days when troubles we knew not Lyrics: And or mother made colcannon in the little skillet pot Within the fire and out upon the sea Crazy man Michael was walking Well, did you ever take potatoe cake He met with a raven with eyes black as coals and boxty to the school And shortly they were a-talking Tucked underneath your oxter with Your future, your future I would tell to you your books, your slate and rule Your future you often have asked me And when teacher wasn't looking' Your true love will die by your own right hand sure a great big bite you'd take And crazy man Michael will cursèd be Of the creamy flavoured soft and meltin' Michael he ranted and Michael he raved sweet potatoe cake And beat up the four winds with his fists o He laughed and he cried, he shouted and he swore Chorus For his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss o You speak with an evil, you speak with a hate Well did you ever go a courtin' boys You speak for the devil that haunts me when the evenin' sun went down For is she not the fairest in all the broad land And the moon began a peepin' Your sorcerer¹s words are to taunt me from behind the Hill O' Down And you wandered down the boreen He took out his dagger of fire and of steel where the clúrachán was seen And struck down the raven through the heart o And you whispered lovin' praises to The bird fluttered long and the sky it did spin your own dear sweet cáilín And the cold earth did wonder and startle O where is the raven that I struck down dead Chorus And here did lie on the ground o I see that my true love with a wound so red Columbus Where her lover¹s heart it did pound o Songwriter: Noel Brazil Crazy man Michael he wanders and calls Lyrics: And talks to the night and the day o But his eyes they are sane and his speech it is plain Better keep your distance from this whale And he longs to be far away o Better keep your boat from going astray Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes Find yourself a partner and treat them well And asks of the wild wolves their pardon Try to give them shelter night and day For his true love is flown into every flower grown 'Cause here in this blue light And he must be keeper of the garden Far away from the fireside Things can get twisted and crazy and crowded Crusader You can't even feel right Songwriter: Mick Hanly

So you dream of Columbus Lyrics: Ever time the panic starts You dream of Columbus There's a wilderness With your maps and your beautiful charts It's a no man's land You dream of Columbus Between Alice Springs and the ocean With an ache in your travelling heart Seventeen hundred miles of burning sand And a silken thread keeps a hold on you See how the cormorant swoops and dives When the emptieness like a potion tends to fray your Must be some thrill to go that deep reason strand by Down to the basement of this life Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps strand Not like here in this blue light And there's no more need for the mask your wear Far away from the fireside When the last goodbyes have been said Where things can get twisted and haunted and crowded So kiss the cheeks of you dearest friends You can't even feel alright And turn to the desert ahead Now you're on your own like a sailing ship Chorus You're the captain, crew and sailors Turn around and this is what you see I'll be your sweetheart always Chorus And I'll love the memories of the Diamond Days I'll keep a candle burning This me facing me all alone 'Till we sing again the Diamond Days 'Cause I choose to be with the wind and the sun on me only me If the words don't rhyme Then I will forgive you Now you dream so much about being lost That won't be the crime Your ghost by a coolebah sleeping But the staring space Haunts you and whispers in your ear Upon the page Give up give up this lonely road That might look like mine No one knows the promise you're keeping I have made a start You can't touch the emptiness out here With a verse and a Chorus But the grace that mends this broken wing The rest I'll leave to you The blue sky to regain And when next I see your smiling face Will lift those feet and raise those eyes We might sing it right through To face the desert again As the dawn reveals the journey's end Chorus In truth it's only beginning And it's as big as your eyes wish to see Dockland Songwriter: Noel Brazil Chorus Lyrics: Cut By Wire Songwriter: Geoff Bartley & John Gorka Late glow on an early winter evening in Dockland with my ship of dreams moving easily across the sound Lyrics: Reminiscence is weighting me down with a vengeance tide water so deep I think I'm going to drown The letter stopped in a minor key A Christmas card that you drew for me But in the wink of an eye I am rising above the affliction Done by the hand that I knew so well In the wink of an eye I am come back in from the cold Disguised the message that you could not tell I don't even have to try and I'm gone out of here without notice I see you bent above your potter's wheel gone out of Dockland without a care in the world The piece you've throwing is the piece you feel The softest colour and an eye so true It didn't hit me when I met you coming out of the For cups and bowls that are shaped like you shambles It didn't hit me when you took me to the summer field Chorus I didn't flinch when you told me that you'd get what you You work in porcelain cut by wire wanted Now as ever lovers walk through fire I never had what it takes to have a heart of steel When we were breaking we made no sound The pieces almost touching on the ground But in the wink of an eye I am rising above the affliction in the wink of an eye I am come back in from the cold And now your silence says there's someone there I didn't even have to try and I'm gone out of here She stands behind you as she strokes your hair without notice How does she hold you like a long lost friend I'm gone out Dockland without a care in the world Or are you like me on your own again gone out of Dockland

And so I write you in a minor key And yes I loved you the time that is was Wondering if there's something left for me and yes you may rip me whenever you want I'm only writing so that I can sleep I never found another love as deep So it goes on a crystal clear morning in Dockland and heaven knows if I'll ever live to love again Chorus Struck down by the kiss of an angel in limbo laid low by the act of the going Diamond Days Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy But in the wink of an eye I am rising above the affliction in the wink of an eye I am come back in from the cold Lyrics: I didn't even have to try and I'm gone out of here without notice I have written this song gone out of Dockland without a care in the world For you to take with you I'm gone out of Dockland without a care in world When you go away Something to sing and slowly swing to Donegal Breeze On your colder days Songwriter: Kevin Doherty I have made a start With a verse and a Chorus Lyrics: The rest I leave to you And when next I see your smiling face CHORUS We might sing it right through With your dark hair in the Donegal breeze, Bringing me softly and sweetly to the ground, Chorus But, there's madness in the sycamore trees, And there's no salvation to be found. As I walked out one evening Right now the only thing that my mind ever holds, To breathe the air and sooth my mind Are long dark silences or screaming that explodes, I thought of friends and the home I had Burning rocking beds with visions of a land, And all those things I left behind oh... Long dark tunnels, questions and calm, But, with you, you know I have no doubts, A silent star shone on me And fear will have no sting, My eyes saw the far horizon With your brilliant eyes and your lost and broken wing, As if to pierce this veil of time My head upon your shoulder as you take me in your And escape this earthly prison oh... arms, Continents will crumble, we will find no harm. Chorus Will there come a time when the memories fade CHORUS And pass on with the long, long years? When the ties no longer bind With your dark hair in the Donegal breeze, Lord save me from this darkest fear Bringing me softly and sweetly to the ground, Don't let me come home a stranger But, there's madness in the sycamore trees, I couldn't stand to be a stranger And there's no salvation to be found. In this place so far from home Well I'll brace myself against the dark, endeavour to go They know my name but they don't know me on, They hear my voice; they see my face No matter how long it takes, and even though I might be But they can't lay no claim on me oh... wrong, And I will ask a little favour of whatever God I find, Chorus And I will come back for you darling, when I find some peace of mind. As I walk this universe I free my mind of time and space Well I don't know about tomorrow, it will be here and I wander through the galaxy gone, But never do I find my place oh... I don't know about tonight, it'll be too long, Sometimes I think I'm dying, and I don't care how, Chorus All I know is that I want you, and I want you here and now. Don't Say Okay Songwriter: Shane Howard CHORUS Lyrics: With your dark hair in the Donegal breeze, Bringing me softly and sweetly to the ground, I'm giving up on TV it's not making sense But, there's madness in the sycamore trees, Gotta trust ourselves it's the last line of defence And there's no salvation to be found. Spinning into space running out of time Gathering together all the useful things we find Don't Explain Songwriter: Billy Holiday/Herzog Chorus

Lyrics: So don't say okay and be half-hearted I'm afraid that this feeling goes on Hush now, don't explain Just say you'll remain Sacrifice the world face a killing sun I'm glad your back, don't explain You gotta get it all together it'll bring us all undone Quiet, don't explain We're running up hills that we already climbed What is there to gain Over the top and falling down the other side Skip that lipstick Don't explain Chorus

You know that I love you The ghosts are at the window they're again tonight And what endures Looking in on us so we have got to get it right All my thoughts of you We've walking on their bones everywhere we go For I'm so completely yours Spirits in the wind and the memories in the stones

Cry to hear folks chatter Chorus And I know you cheat Right or wrong, don't matter How we gonna get the healing done? When you're with me, sweet Ellis Island Hush now, don't explain Songwriter: Noel Brazil You're my joy and pain My life's yours love Lyrics: Don't explain From the corner of my eye I see a tear rolling down Don't Let Me Come a Stranger At the time I couldn't tell whose tear it was Songwriter: Robin and Linda Williams / Jerome Clark If it was mine I should be glad That I still function in this cage Lyrics: But if it's yours it only makes me more lost To see a tear rolling down To see a tear rolling down Lyrics: This is the last call for Ellis Island These are the last words I'm ever gonna hear you say Fare thee well So goodbye, babe My own true love Goodbye, babe. Farewell for a while I'm going away I hear sweethearts whisper their undying love But I'll return Above the noise on the quay their voices rise If I go 10,000 miles They must have something so strong in the face of such change 10,000 miles That they can promise and promise all night My own true love Oh, their undying love, hear their undying love 10,000 miles or more And the rocks may melt This is the last call for Ellis Island And the seas may burn These are the last words I'm ever gonna hear you say If I no more return

So goodbye, babe And you see Goodbye, babe. Yon lonesome dove Sitting on an ivy tree Oh, what you wouldn't give to be down on the pier once She's weeping for again Her own true love Far away from the cries of this war-weary horde As I will weep for mine Time up there in the clouds must be hard to endure When your heart's unsure Oh come back My own true love It's like a knife in my gut knowing you're taking leave Stay a while with me I feel I'm sentenced to a death without appeal For if I had a friend I can pretend it's all a dream All on this earth And what I'm seeing will disappear Then you'll be a friend to me, my dear But the end I can see is all too real Knowing you're taking leave Oh come back Knowing you're taking leave My own true love Stay a while with me This is the last call for Ellis Island For if I had a friend These are the last words I'm ever gonna hear you say All on this earth So goodbye, babe Goodbye, babe Then you'll be that friend to me, my dear Fall at your feet You'll be that friend to me Songwriter: Finn Then you'll be that friend to me, my dear You'll be that friend to me Lyrics: Farewell Farewell I'm really close tonight Songwriter: Richard Thompson I feel like I'm moving inside him Lying in the dark Lyrics: I think that I'm beginning to know him Let it go Farewell, farewell to you who would hear I'll be there when you call You lonely travellers all The cold north winds will blow again Chorus The winding road does call.

And whenever I fall at your feet And will you never return to see Won't you let your tears rain down one me Your bruised and beaten sons Whenever I touch your slow turning pain O I would, I would if welcome I were For they loathe me every one. Don't hide it from me now There's something in the way that you're talking And will you never cut the cloth Words don't sound right Nor drink the light to be I hear them all moving inside you And can you never swear a year You know - I'll be waiting when you call To anyone but he.

Chorus No I will never cut the cloth Nor drink the light to be The finger of blame has turning upon itself But I'll swear a year to he who lies And I'm more than willing to offer myself Asleep alongside of me. Do you want my presence or need my help? Who knows where that might lead Repeat First Verse I fall, I fall Fat Valley Of Pain Chorus Songwriter: Noel Brazil

Fare Thee Well My Own True Love Lyrics: Traditional It was one of those days We'll walk in fields of gold When to shine was of no value We'll walk in fields of gold One of those days When the language had no grace Many years have passed since those summer days We were miles apart Among the fields or Barley And I stood there with my head spinning See the children run as the sun goes down Just another poor soul Among the fields of gold Trying hard not to lose faith You'll remember me when the west wind moves We had it engraved Among the fields of Barley We had the key to a union You can tell the sun in his jealous sky But you wanted more When we walked in fields of gold So we both kept on losing When we walked in fields of gold When we walked in fields of gold Fat valley of pain Fat valley of pain inside Flesh and Blood And this pain will not end Songwriter: Shane Howard 'Cause loving you is what I was made for Lyrics: You were like one of those rainbows We glimpse for a few seconds If we leave here today One of those dreams we could be a thousand miles away That could last for a life long Take to that road see how far it goes Now I'm quizzing myself And on that great ocean road And it's always the same question Oh the country's in our bones Is it wrong to believe All the trouble that you know When the feeling so so strong? empties out as you go

We had engraved Chorus: We had the key to a union But you wanted more Oh come on walk with me, talk with me, So we both kept on losing tell me your stories I'll do my best to understand you It's an ill-kept secret You're flesh and blood, flesh and blood That something here's going wrong Don't refuse me your love Oh but my helpless feelings More than words can express They keep on leading me on More than wealth or success Oh there's a thousand things to do Fat valley of pain So let's start here with me and you Fat valley of pain inside All the pain that you feel And this pain will not end All the hurt that seems so real 'Cause loving you is what I was made for Fat valley of pain Oh come on walk with me, talk with me, tell me your stories Fields Of Gold I'll do my very best to understand you Songwriter: Sting You're flesh and blood You can't go on holding back Lyrics: the flooding river Keeping all that fear inside You'll remember me when the west winds move I understand how trouble haunts you Upon the fields of Barley Yes and I do know how you feel You'll can tell the sun in his jealous sky As you walk in fields of gold There's a thousand things to do So let's start here with me and you So she took her love Gonna take a little time For to gaze awhile Let's see what we can find Upon the fields of Barley Oh come on walk with me...... In his arms she fell as her hair came down Among the fields of gold Forever Young Songwriter: Bob Dylan Will you stay with me will you be my love Among the fields of Barley Lyrics: You'll can tell the sun in his jealous sky As you lie in fields of gold May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, I never made a promise lightly May you always do for others And there have been some that I've broken And let others do for you. But I swear in the days still left May you build a ladder to the stars We'll walk in fields of gold And climb on every rung, We'll walk in fields of gold May you stay forever young, Forever young, forever young, I never made a promise lightly May you stay forever young. And there have been some that I've broken May you grow up to be righteous, But I swear in the days still left May you grow up to be true, May you always know the truth You're free free as stone And see the lights surrounding you. You're free free as stone May you always be courageous, Stand upright and be strong, Full Moon May you stay forever young, Songwriter: Sandy Denny Forever young, forever young, May you stay forever young. Lyrics:

May your hands always be busy, Everybody else has gone May your feet always be swift, But you're still here with me May you have a strong foundation All the world is sleeping by and by When the winds of changes shift. Through the windowpane May your heart always be joyful, The frosted light is streaming in May your song always be sung, Full moon sailing high across the sky May you stay forever young, Tonight is like the night when we first met Forever young, forever young, I always knew I never would forget you May you stay forever young. Come and hold me close Free as a Stone I miss you more than I can say Songwriter: Shane Howard I can't imagine how I pass the time Wondering if you'll ever know Lyrics: How much you mean to me I never dreamed there'd be a change of mind Phone calls and taxi-rides Oh lover, this is where I want to stay And somebody's leaving Maybe it could always be this way Misunderstandings get out of control And the right words get left Gentle music, rock away the sadnesses in me And the wrong words get spoken Rock away my lonely yesterdays He's gone but not your pride I recall you said to me a long, long time ago Chorus "Don't you lose direction in the crowd, I think you could" But when I did you found me and I didn't even know Not much can help Hardly even knew you were around, and understood The full heart that's breaking I was reaching out each moment to be free Can't find the words You were all those things I'd never be And you can't hide the feelings And it's down to the bone Gentle music, rock away the sadnesses in me To the heart of the matter Rock away my lonely yesterdays You're free free as stone Like pennies on the ocean Look at you now 'Til no trace of them I see You're the picture of sorrow 'Til moonlight shows no ripples on the waves Head in your hands Like a scene from a movie And then the clear reflection will remain And all of the things Perhaps the same reflection of that same full moon That seemed so important Are leaves and are blowing away Full moon, full moon, full moon...

Chorus Gabriel Songwriter: Shane Howard Nothing can help The full heart that's breaking Lyrics: You can't find the words And you can't hide the feelings Chorus And it's down to the bone To the heart of the matter Gabriel Gabriel You're free free as stone Open you heart and mine as well Oh Gabriel Gabriel Walk through this town Save this heart from hell On a cold Sunday morning Soldiers in uniforms Heaven knows I love you Guns in their hands And heaven knows how true The world all caught up I'd be for you With barbed wire fences I'm free I'm free as stone People have their failings And I know that I've got mine Chorus I know I've been ungrateful I know I've been unkind Oh nothing can help The full heart that's breaking Chorus Won't find the words And you can't hide the feelings Gabriel Gabriel And it's down to bone Open you heart and mine as well To the heart of the matter Oh come on Gabriel Gabriel Save this heart from hell Mama may have, Papa may have But God bless the child that's got his own Down into the valleys That's got his own And out across the sea But God bless the child that's got his own Our dreams go That's got his own Caught up in a loving So much stronger than we knew Going Gone That could tear our world apart Songwriter: Alger, Dale & Koller Or with some fate just pull us through Lyrics: Chorus There is a lighthouse in the harbour Gabriel oh Gabriel Giving guidance with its light Open you heart and mine as well But I have no one to turn to Gabriel Gabriel As I wander through life Save this heart from hell From the first time that I saw you Standing silent by the shore Time will wait for no one I know my search was over And time will take it's toll and I would look for love no more And we'll grow old Weary from the fighting Chorus Worn out from a war Where no one can surrender Deep in the waters of love I am falling Or wants to fight anymore Sinking like a stone Deep in my heart I can hear love calling Chorus Going once, going twice going gone

Gabriel Gabriel There is a ship on the horizon Open you heart and mine as well Making its way against the wind Gabriel Gabriel and from the place where I stand watching Save this heart from hell I swear my ship is coming in

Gabriel Gabriel Chorus Open you heart and mine as well Oh Gabriel Gabriel Golden Mile This heart's in hell Songwriter: Noel Brazil

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God Bless The Child I'm walkin' along golden mile with a soldier's twirl Songwriter: A. Herzog Jr/Billie Holiday I must be the luckiest soul in the whole wide world O foolish thing here I go again Lyrics: There's no faith more innocent than blind faith Them that's got shall get And that's all I've got Them that's not shall lose So I'm scaling the walls of my dreams So the Bible said but it still is news Ready or not Mama may have, Papa may have O foolish thing here I go again But God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own Chorus Rich relations give Crust of bread and such Don't be afraid darling no need to be afraid darling You can help yourself You don't have to be afraid from now on But don't take too much It's just the way darling we get delayed darling Mama may have, Papa may have But we won't be delayed from now on But God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own I know no power on earth nor up above That would alter the way things are Money, you've got lots of friends You are my love Crowding round the door You're my pride and joy on the golden mile When you're gone, spending ends They don't come no more If only it could be captured how I feel for you Yes, the strong gets more And if I could just freeze it I feel I'd never be untrue While the weak ones fade O foolish thing here I go again Empty pockets don't ever make the grade Mama may have, Papa may have Chorus. But God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own Golden Thread Songwriter: Thom Moore Money, you've got lots of friends Crowding round the door Lyrics: Money's gone, and spending ends They don't come no more I looked into a mirror made of lines With tiny symbols here and there to make the image mine And you can hang your head in sorrow A woman stood and painted, and showed me what to find The restless nights when troubles come The different parts, the fire, the air, And stand alone and face tomorrow and where my life would climb: And know not why but what has been undone and where it joins another, and what would always bind: Chorus Chorus: How you gonna hold on to that greatest dream of all? It's a golden thread to hold you all of my days, How you gonna hold on when you need to fall? Hold my head against you, now and for always, Sewn me up, shown us a long, long time; III Makes you my life, makes you my life. I know it breaks your heart to wonder What it was he'd ever said or done The moving finger writes and goes away; There'll be no sleep amongst the thunder I'm weighed upon a balance here There'll be silence but no peace after he's gone and I'm told that I can stay The kettle heats, the water speaks up, says I'm not Chorus & repeat III alone; My whole life is a tapestry, and hanging in my home. Hard Times And here it joins another, by what will always bind: Songwriter: Stephen Foster

Chorus Lyrics:

An when you looked your angel flew away Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears And what it meant was your protection's gone another While we all sup sorrow with the poor day There's a song that will linger forever in our ears And what has come to change you, Oh Hard times come again no more. and have you come what may Chorus Is fashioned by an old triangle, green as April haze, Tis the song, the sigh of the weary, And blue is just a colour, but blue is here to stay. Hard times, hard times, come again no more Many days you have lingered around my cabin door Chorus (2) Oh hard times come again no more.

Goodmorning Heartache While we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and Songwriter: Higginbotham/Drake/Fisher gay There are frail forms fainting at the door Lyrics: Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say Good morning heartache Oh hard times come again no more. You old gloomy sight Good morning heartache Chorus Thought we said goodbye last night I turned and tossed until it seems you heve gone Hó Ró m'Iníon Donn Bhóidheach But here you are with the dawn Songwriter: Traditional Arrangement Frances Black Wish I forget you, but you're here to stay It seems I met you Curfá When my love went away Hó ró m'iníon donn bhóidheach Now everyday I stop I'm saying to you Hó ró m'iníon donn bhóidheach Good morning heartache what's new 'S a chailín lách bhóidheach Stop haunting me now Ní phósfainn ach thú Can't shake you nohow Just leave me alone A Pheigí dhonn na mbláthshúl I've got those Monday blues Is trom a thug mé grá duit Straight to Sunday blues Tá d'éadan aoibhinn álainn Good morning heartache De ghrnáth os comhair do shúl Here we go again Good morning heartache Curfá You're the one Who knows me well Ní cheilfead ar an saol so Might as well get use to you hanging around Go bhfuil mé i ngrá go tréan leat; Good morning heartache 'S cé d'ímíos uait go scléipeach Sit down Níor thréigeas mo rún

Greatest Dream Curfá Songwriter: Donagh Long Ach nuair a thiocfadh an samhradh Lyrics: Rachad féin 'dtí'n gleann úd I Is tabharfadsa, dar Donn, liom Seems like the morning lights hereafter M'ansacht is mo rún Can weigh much more than you can hold Somehow tomorrow's lines and laughter English Translation: Can turn around and look so cold My Pretty Brown-Haired lass

II Chorus Hó ró pretty brown-haired lass When I wake I take no rest Hó ró pretty brown-haired lass Every moment thinking on you My gentle charming pretty girl My heart o'er fixed in your breast I'll marry none but you But although far distance May be of assistance Oh brown-haired Peggy, eyes like flowers If from my mind your love remove My love for you is great and deep For me heart is with him altogether Above your eyes your forehead Though I live not where I love Always beautiful and sweet All the world shall be of one religion Chorus All living things shall cease to die If ever I should prove false to my jewel I will hide from no man Or any way his love deny That my love for you is strong Oh the world shall change Although I went from you carousing And be most strange I did not cease to love If from my mind your love remove For me heart is with him altogether Chorus Though I live not where I love

But when summer is upon us So farewell lad and farewell lassies I will go to yonder glen Now I think I've made my choice And I swear I'll bring back with me I will away to yonder mountain My darling and my love Where I think I hear his voice And if he hollows I will follow Home Around the world though it is so wide Songwriter: Karla Bonoff For young Thomas he did promise I should be his lawful bride Lyrics: Repeat first verse. Traveling at night, the headlights were bright And we’d been up many an hour I Misunderstood And all through my brain Songwriter: Richard Thompson Came the refrain Of home and it’s warming fire Lyrics: Chorus And Home He said darling I'm in love with you mind Sings me of sweet things The way you care for me it's so kind My life there has it’s own wings Love to see you again wish I had more time To fly over the mountains He was laughing as he brushed my cheek Though I'm standing still Why don't you call me baby maybe next week Promise now cross your heart and hope to die The people I've seen They come in between Chorus The cities of tiring life The trains come and go, But I misunderstood But inside you know But I misunderstood The struggle will soon be a fight But I misunderstood I thought he was saying good luck Chorus He was saying goodbye

Traveling at night, Repeat Chorus The headlights were bright. But soon the sun came through the trees Things I tried to put shine in his eyes Around the next bend Wire wheels and shimmering things The flowers will send Wild nights when the whole world seemed to fly The sweet scene of home in the breeze He said the thing that's so unique When we're together we don't have to speak Chorus We'll always be such good friends you and I

I Live Not Where I Love Chorus Traditional But I misunderstood Lyrics: But I misunderstood But I misunderstood O Come all ye maids who live at a distance I thought he was saying good luck Many's a mile from off your sway He was saying goodbye Come and assist me this very moment For to pass away some time Repeart Chorus Singing sweetly and completely Songs of pleasure and of love I Say a Little Prayer For me heart is with him altogether Songwriter: Bacharach/David Though I live not where I love Lyrics: When I sleep I dream about you The moment I wake up, before I put on my make up I will be there I say a little prayer for you While combing my hair now When morning comes and friends are few And wonderin' what dress to wear now You need someone you need someone to help you I say a little prayer for you through I will be there don't be afraid Forever, forever you'll stay in my heart I will be there don't be afraid And I will love you forever and ever I will be there We never will part and I will love you Together, together that's how it must be When you are lost in the night To live without you could only mean heartbreak for me No where to turn I will be there I run for the bus dear, while riding I think of us, dear Don't be afraid And say a little prayer for you Don't be afraid At work I just take time, and all through my coffee break I will be there time I say a little prayer for you When everyone that you believe still lets you down I will be there Chorus Don't be afraid don't be afraid I will be there Darlin' believe me, for me there is no one but you Say you love me too When you are lost in the night 'Cause I'm in love with you No where to turn Answer my prayer now I will be there Say you love me too Don't be afraid don't be afraid Just answer my prayer now Say you love me too If I Gave My Heart To You Songwriter: Jimmi Chi Chorus Lyrics: The moment I wake up, before I put on my make up Answer my prayer now If I gave my heart to you Say you love me too Would you promise to be true Just answer my prayer now It would break my heart in two Say you love me too If you left me waiting anticipating

I Will Be There Till some other magic day Songwriter: Paul Brady/John O-Kane I may steal your heart away Then you would take my hand Lyrics: And then understand me When you'd really see me When times are hard and friends are few And you need someone to help you through In a world of different dreams Just call my name and I'll come running to your side Where all things aren't what they seem Don't be afraid don't be afraid When you would take my hand

I will be there If I gave my heart When you are lost in the night If I gave my heart No where to run If I gave my heart to you I will be there Don't be afraid don't be afraid For only truth remains Cause all things are just the same When morning comes and nothing's changed The excepting part of truth And the world around plays the same old game Just call on me and I will ease your lonely heart If I gave my heart Don't be afraid don't be afraid If I gave my heart If I gave my heart to you I will be there When you are lost in the night In A Dream No where to turn Songwriter: Noel Brazil I will be there Don't be afraid don't be afraid Lyrics: I will be there When every one that you believe still lets you down Something about this is precious, Something about this is I will be there sad Don't be afraid don't be afraid Something about this is better, Than I've ever had Hard and lean, You know what I mean? Cause I will be there don't be afraid How do the roots become tangled? Why does the spirit I will be there don't be afraid grow tired? I will be there Where is the key to your kingdom? Yes that's my desire.

When morning comes and nothing's changed CHORUS: And the world around plays the same old game When everyone still lets you down There are those who live to count the cost And then those who count themselves content Out into the blue I see heaven wrapped up in a box It is you come back to love again, In a dream, This living Sometimes I could fly dream. When you heart it touches mine Deep into the blue Up in a heap I'm not bothered, Down in the dumps I'm Where my soul is lost okay and all because of you Here in my heart you're the best road, That I'll ever take, I'm serene yeh. Isle Of St.Helena Traditional, Source: Steve Turner CHORUS: Lyrics: There are those who live to take the chance And then more who find themselves content Now Bony he has gone from his wars all a-fightin' I see heaven mapped out in advance He has gone to the place where he takes no delight in. It is you and that's my journeys end, In a dream, This And there he may sit down and tell the sights he's seen living dream. of When full long doth he mourn on the Isle of St. Helena. I'm trying to hang on to the essence, I'm feeling more No more in St. Cloud will he'll appear in great splendor faint by the day Nor step forth from the crowdlike the great Alexander, It took such a long time to get it, I don't want to see it He may look to the east , while he thinks of Hana, erased with is heart full of war, on the Isle of St. Helena

CHORUS: The wide rushing waves all around the shores a-washin' And the wide billows heaves on the wild rocks are There are those who live to count the cost dashin'. And then more who count themselves content He may look over the main to the great Mount Diana I see heaven wrapped up in a box With his eyes on the waves that surround St. Helena. It is you come back to love again, In a dream, This living dream Oh, Louisy she weeps for her husband's departin' This living dream. And she dreams while she sleeps and she wakes broken- hearted. Into The Blue There is none to console her, thought there is many to be Songwriter: Tony Kerr with her While alone she does mourn while she thinks of St. Lyrics: Helena.

Cast my boat out to the ocean So you that have wealth, beware of ambition and set it sails to the wind For there is some twist of fate could soon change your Gentle breeze blowing into my heart condition. I'm alive in this gentle world Be steadfast in time what's to come change you cannot A life carefree For maybe your race will end on the Isle of St. Helena. A life carefree James Connolly And in this love that you give me Trad. Arrangement The Black Family You have to share the joy and mystery The wonder of your smile Lyrics: and the power of your words That changes me Where oh where is our James Connolly ? That changes me Where oh where is that gallant man ? He is gone to organise the Union Sometimes I could fly That working men they may yet be free. When your heart it touches mine Oh who then who will lead the van ? Deep into the blue Oh who then who will lead the van ? Where my soul is lost Who but our James Connolly and all because of you The hero of the working man.

Gave my heart to another love Where oh where is the Citizen Army ? Crashing waves of pain came over me Where oh where is that gallant band ? In my distress you came and rescued me They've gone to join the great rebellion Still the storm talked away That working men they might yet be free. Of life carefree Of life carefree Who will carry high the burning flag ? Sometimes I could fly Who will carry high the burning flag ? When your heart it touches mine Who but our James Connolly Deep into the blue Could carry high the burning flag. Where my soul is lost and all because of you They carried him up to the jail They carried him up to the jail When I found myself far away from you And they shot him down on a bright May morning Thats when I hear your voice And quickly laid him in his grave. Reminding me, calling me, lifting me Out into the blue Who mourns the death of this great man ? Who mourns the death of this great man ? hurroo Oh bury me down in yon green garden With your drums and guns and drums and guns, With union men on every side. The enemy nearly slew ye Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer So they buried him down in yon green garden Johnny I hardly knew ye. With union men on every side They swore they would form a mighty union Just a Journey That James Connolly's name might be filled with pride. Songwriter: Steve Cooney

Where oh where is our James Connolly ? Lyrics: Where oh where is that gallant man ? He is gone to organise the Union I heard the rhythm of her wings, That working men they may yet be free. an enchanting lover's dream O how peacefully she sings, Johnny i Hardly Knew Ye dancing in the midnight stream Traditional Open hearted full of light, and breathing sweetly scented air Lyrics: She'll be travelling tonight, with all our people everywhere While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo O what a world is this, While goin' the road to sweet Athy, heaven clear within our call A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye, A smoky ribbon gently rising is bushfire dreaming A doleful damsel I heard cry, All our people gathering Johnny I hardly knew ye. before the coming harvesting With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, We are wheat for the bread, hurroo we are wind and fire... and Law With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo I see the stars that blaze the dawn With your drums and guns and drums and guns, Of the Coming Living Day The enemy nearly slew ye O, what a time is this, Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer the time of choosing of our way... Johnny I hardly knew ye. For there is no unknown, No uncertainty at all, for the only One Where are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo who is forever, and can never fall... Where are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo Where are your eyes that were so mild, O what a world is this, When my heart you so beguiled heaven clear within our call Why did ye go and leave me with child A smoky ribbon gently rising is bushfire dreaming Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye All our people gathering before the coming harvesting Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo We are wheat for the bread, Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo we are wind and fire and Law Where are your legs that used to run, When you went for to carry a gun Over countless waves and winds, Indeed your dancing days are done a message hitting in our hearts Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye get up and make a dream real, and don't be sitting in the dark! With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, I've been travelling for years, hurroo more than half a million miles With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, And if I weigh the veil of tears hurroo Against the laughter, and the smiles, With your drums and guns and drums and guns, I'll be happy, for I'll know that what The enemy nearly slew ye has only come to pass Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer Is just a journey of a Spirit through a lifetime's changing, Johnny I hardly knew ye. Re-arranging your own self, in accordance with the Light Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo And with your own true Spirit, Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo and may Peace be your tonight Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless egg Just Around The Corner Ye'll have to put with a bowl out to beg Songwriter: Kieran Goss Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye Lyrics: I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo You've got no reason to say you're all alone I'm happy for to see ye home, There will be a change of season All from the island of Sulloon; That'll win a heart of stone So low in flesh, so high in bone Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye Chorus

With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, Love is just around the corner hurroo And standin' out of view With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, Love is just around the corner For you She don't mind the late night, Late night radio I can see a smile tomorrow She don't mind the late night radio A reason to go on She don't mind the late night, Late night radio The sky is always darkest Before the new day dawns. Couldn't have dreamed the things that she'd seen There on the avenue Chorus... She stared right into a million eyes That looked her right through Don't ever stop believing Telling red Joe, the places she'd go The sun is going to shine And wiping the table clean It's worth giving and receiving She got no idea the demon of fear If you only give it time Or what a broken heart means

Chorus... She don't mind the late night, Late night radio She don't mind the late night radio Don't think you've found salvation or that the day is won She don't mind the late night, Late night radio When you reach your destination Na Na Na Na Na Not at all The journey's just begun New York was dark Chorus... Dirty and stark Burning with yellow wings Katie Everyday come with fever and hum Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Who knows what it brings Walking a wall without thought Lyrics: To fall and hit the ground Oh sweet Mary Jane with eyes like rain Tumbling curls of green by stainglass streaming light Alive to the sound And a yellow coloured lampshade used to keep us up all night She don't mind the late night, Late night radio And the smile upon her face, the tears upon your cheek She don't mind the late night radio And the night sky on the window She don't mind the late night, Late night radio Your heart calling out to me. She don't mind the late night Late night radio Chorus She don't mind the late night radio She don't mind the late night Come running home again, Katie Late night radio Come running home again Not at all Cross my heart and hope to die Shall I cause another tear from your eye Lay Down Your Burden Songwriter: Jesse Winchester The mirror that won't talk and your nightgown on the door Lyrics: And the old pedal Singer just don't sing no more You can roll the reels for hours It's a cold old world that we're walking through From the movie of this book They ought to tell you at the start It's a question mark on this heart of mine But it's warm as toast walkin' two by two sends an elder back to look. Lay down the burden of your heart

Chorus Lay down the burden of your heart I know you'll never miss it Now I'm looking through a tunnel Just show me, angel, where it hurts Back into the room And let your mammy kiss it With the genius of a druid when the sunlight floods the tomb It's a fine fine line between love and hate And I'm never going back there, and I couldn't anyway It's hard to tell the two apart 'Cause though I made the great escape But what strength I have I offer you I never got away. Lay down the burden of your heart

Chorus Lay down the burden of your heart I know you'll never miss it Late Night radio Just show me, angel, where it hurts Songwriter: David Gray And let your mammy kiss it

Lyrics: Lay down the burden of your heart I know you'll never miss it Oh Mary Jane, she step on the train Just show me, angel, where it hurts Head for the city light And let your mammy kiss it Yearning inside to swim with the tide and taste it all night Lay Down Your Weary Tune Bag on her shoulder, breathing the cold Songwriter: Bob Dylan There by the metal tracks She saw it all shine and swore in her mind Lyrics: she'd never go back Lay down your weary tune, lay down, It's I that'll see my dearie Lay down the song you strum, He'll come whistlin' in And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings When I am tired and weary. No voice can hope to hum. Struck by the sounds before the sun, First when I came to the town I knew the night had gone. They called me proud and saucy The morning breeze like a bugle blew Now they've changed my name Against the drums of dawn. Called me the Leaboy's lassie. Lay down your weary tune, lay down, Lay down the song you strum, Leaving The Land And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings Songwriter: Eric Bogle No voice can hope to hum. Lyrics: The ocean wild like an organ played, The seaweed's wove its strands. It's time to go, Jenny The crashin' waves like cymbals clashed No need to close the door Against the rocks and sands. What if the dust gets in the house It doesn't matter any more I stood unwound beneath the skies You and the dust have been at war for far too many And clouds unbound by laws. years The crying rain like a trumpet sang Now the war is over Jenny dear. And asked for no applause. Chorus Lay down your weary tune, lay down, Lay down the song you strum, Leaving the land And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings Leaving the land No voice can hope to hum. Leaving all I've ever been and everything I am Leaving the land. The last of leaves fell from the trees And clung to a new love's breast. Remember when I brought you here The branches bare like a banjo played Those long bright years ago To the winds that listened best. For all that time you've been my heart And this land has been my soul I gazed down in the river's mirror The long bright days are over now but still the heart And watched its winding strum. beats on The water smooth ran like a hymn But Jenny dear the soul is gone. And like a harp did hum. Chorus Lay down your weary tune, lay down, Lay down the song you strum, I't time to go, Jenny And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings Drive quickly down the track No voice can hope to hum. We'll never see what lies ahead if we keep on looking back Leaboys Lassie Behind is just an empty house Trad. Arranged Black/Sinnott Old memories and ghosts And our small dream gathering dust. Lyrics: Chorus First when I came to the town They called me young and bonny Looking Forward Now they've changed my name Songwriter: John Gorka Called me the Leaboy's honey. Lyrics: I'll dye my petticoats red And I'll face them with a yellow I never cared about the car I'd drive I'll tell the dyester lads Or the room I'd sleep or the bus I'd ride That the Leaboys I've to follow. Just as long as I could get somewhere And not get hurt I could breathe out there It's over hills and dales I knew I could be free out there ... could be me And over dykes and ditches Say will I like the lad I never cared about the word prestige Who wears the moleskin breeches About no inside track or no noblesse oblige Just as long as I could pay my way The black horse draws the cart And pull my weight and say my say And he's as proud as any As long as I could pay my way ... I could say Say will I like the lad That drives them on so canny Bridge

Feather beds are fine I never had no plans just dreams and vague directions And painted rooms are bonny I would not make my stand But I would leave them all I the house of corrections To jog away with Johnny Now I can see at last I see that everything is changing And if you want to hold on fast the future needs Oh, for Saturday night arranging And that' s the best of all Chorus And she is quite good-looking And that' s the best of all Now I'm looking forward to you Now I'm looking forward to you Oh, Hannah, loving Hannah My former view was backward Come give to me your hand My backward view as blue You said that if you're married Now I'm looking forward to you That I will be the one That I will be the one Love had a weight designed to bring me down That I will be the one My hands would sweat and my heart would pound You said that if you're married Now I've learned it and I've turned around That I will be the one And I hanker for that anchor sound I hanker for that anchor sound I will go down by the river Once designed to bring me down When everyone's asleep I'll think of loving Hannah Repeart Bridge & Chorus And then sit down and grieve And then sit down and grieve Loving You And then sit down and grieve Songwriter: John Sebastian I'll think of loving Hannah And then sit down and grieve Lyrics: I went to church on Sunday I have been wond'ring My love she passed me by what I'm gonna do I knew her mind was changing while you are sleeping By the roving of her eye am I sleeping too By the roving of her eye well I'm just sittin' here lovin' you By the roving of her eye close my eyes and lovin' you I knew her mind was changing oh I'm just sittin' back By the roving of her eye sittin' here lovin' you Mary's Wedding If you've been wond'rin just what I would do Lyrics: if I weren't sleeping had I not found you Chorus: well I'd be outside finding you Step we gaily on we go, I'd be walkin' down avenue finding you heel and heel oh I'm just sittin' here lovin' you and toe for toe arm and arm Oh the reason that you never see me runnin' round and row and row fingers on my forehead couldn't calm me down all for Marie's wedding and I can't even get me up and on my feet I have to take care of some bus'ness on the street Over hillways, up and own, oh I have been walkin' all my streets alone Myrtle green and bracken brown I'd keep on walkin' to keep from goin' home Past the sheilings, through the town I couldn't quite barely conceive of you all for the sake of Marie. now I can't conceive of ever leavin' you oh I'm just stittin' back Chorus sittin' here lovin' you Red her cheeks as Rowan's are, oh I'm just sittin' here lovin' you Bright her eyes as any star. oh I'm just sittin' back Fairest of them all by far, sittin' here lovin' you Is our darling Marie.

Loving Hannah Chorus Trad. Arrangement Mary Black Plenty herring, plenty meal, Lyrics: Plenty peat to fill her kreel, Plenty bonnie bairns as well, I went to church on Sunday That's the toast for Marie. My love, she passed me by I knew her mind was changing Chorus (repeat several times) By the roving of her eye By the roving of her eye Men of Worth By the roving of her eye Songwriter: Archie Fisher I knew her mind was changing By the roving of her eye Lyrics:

My love's fair and proper Leave the land behind, laddie, better days to find Her waist is neat and small The companies have the money and they'll soon teach She is quite good-looking you the skills And that' s the best of all Green fields fall away, the forties and the brae And that' s the best of all Be a madman or a roustabout, they'll soon teach you to drill fox and the hare But who will tend me sheep when I'm far o'er the deep? The right to exist is our right, we Amanertune or the sea quest when the snow comes to all share the hill It's a message of love La, la, la, .... Chorus Leave the fishing trade, lads, there's money to be made The hand-line and the Shetland yawl are of a bygone day When evening falls, focus your mind Come to Aberdeen; sights you've never seen! When spirits call let your body unwind Be a welder on the pipeline or a fitter out on the bay And open your heart, and do it today And do what is right, and do not delay But when the job is over and your boat rots on the shore Because a message of love How will you feed your family when the companies go away? Chorus La, la, la, .... Might As Well Be A Slave There's harbors to be built, lads, rigs to tow and tilt Songwriter: Noel Brazil To rest upon the ocean bed like pylons in the sea Pipeline to be laid and a hundred different trades Lyrics: That'll pay a decent living wage to the likes of you and me Lying here watching the time pass I could think of a million things I'd rather do I know you're men of worth; you're the best that's in the Travel at my own pace north Put myself asleep if I wanted to Not men of greed, but men who need the work that's come your way Chorus From (fluppatemunke) shore a new industry is born Old Peterhead and Pomerty will never be the same Might as well be behind bars Than be lashed to a wave that I can't haul I know you're men of worth; you're the best that's in the Might as well be a slave north Lying low in the shade of a prison wall Not men of greed, but men who need the work that's come your way Lying here watching the time pass La, la, la, .... I could cry for the helping hands that I refused We were good friends but I did refuse Message of Love Songwriter: Steve Cooney Chorus

Lyrics: Might as well be behind bars Getting used to the sound of my keeper's call Chorus I might as well be a slave Drinking sun through a chink in a prison wall A message of love, right to your heart Comes from above, to make a new start Down here down where the end is To spark a new flame, You absolve me from every crime I ever planned that will ring the world round I was so surprised I did not think that you would Playing destiny's game understand And creating her sound in a message of love Chorus

Tell all your friends, our time is here Might as well be behind bars We're on our way, the message is clear Growing old in a carpeted hall We're an act of creation, now O might as well be a slave and forever Ever safe out of the rain in prison walls We're a river of nations We're coming together in a message Might as well be behind bars of love Getting used to the sound of my keeper's call I might as well be a slave Chorus Always safe out of the rain in prison walls.

Spirits of love, spirits of life Mo Ghile Mear Help us be strong, help us to do right Songwriter: Seán Clarach MacDomhnaill Here is our chance, to heal the old scars Learn a new way to dance to the song of Lyrics: the stars With a message of love Sé mo laoch mo Ghile Mear ‘Sé mo Chaesar, Ghile Mear, Chorus Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féin Ó chuaigh i gcéin mo Ghile Mear. I hear the butterflies dreaming, in the Bímse buan ar buaidhirt gach ló, shimmering air Ag caoi go cruaidh ’s ag tuar na ndeór I feel the power of life, a flowering Mar scaoileadh uaim an buachaill beó fire everywhere ’s ná ríomhtar tuairisc uaidh, mo bhrón I sing the tree, and the dove the eagle, Ní labhrann cuach go suairc ar nóin Time moves slowly and it goes so fast Is níl guth gadhair i gcoillte cnó, And who knows how long the days will last Ná maidin shamhraidh i gcleanntaibh ceoigh Ó d’imthigh sé uaim an buachaill beó. So cherish deep within you The love you get today Marcach uasal uaibhreach óg, Let the moment linger Gas gan gruaim is suairce snódh, Cause tomorrow steals that away Glac is luaimneach, luath I ngleo Yes tomorrow steals that away Ag teascadh an tslua ’s ag tuargain treon. These are the memories that we made so well Seinntear stair ar chlairsigh cheoil Lives like stories that we long to tell ’s líontair táinte cárt ar bord When we're old with not too much to say Le hinntinn ard gan chaim, gan cheó We'll have the memories that we made today chun saoghal is sláinte d’ fhagháil dom leómhan. We'll have the memories that we made today Ghile Mear ‘sa seal faoi chumha, ‘S Éire go léir faoi chlócaibh dubha; Moon River Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féin Songwriter: Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini Ó cuaigh i gcéin mo Ghile Mear. Lyrics: Seal da rabhas im’ mhaighdean shéimh, ’s anois im’ bhaintreach chaite thréith, Moon river, wider than a mile Mo chéile ag treabhadh na dtonn go tréan I'm crossing you in style some day De bharr na gcnoc is I n-imigcéin. Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way English Translation (thanks to Marina Antolioni) Two drifters, off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see Chorus We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the He is my hero, my dashing darling bend He is my Caesar, dashing darling. My huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me I've had no rest from forebodings Since he went far away my darling. Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way Every day I am constantly sad Weeping bitterly and shedding tears Two drifters, off to see the world Because our lively lad has left us There's such a lot of world to see And no news from him is heard alas. We're after that same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend The cuckoo sings not pleasantly at noon My huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me And the sound of hounds is not heard in nut-filled woods, Nor summer morning in misty glen My Donald Since he went away from me, my lively boy. Songwriter: Owen Hand, Arrangement Mary Black

Noble, proud young horseman Lyrics: Warrior unsaddened, of most pleasant countenace A swift-moving hand, quick in a fight, Oh my Donald he works on the sea Slaying the enemy and smiting the strong. On the waves that blow wild and free He splices the ropes and he sets the sails Let a strain be played on musical harps While southward he rolls to the home of the whale And let many quarts be filled And he ne'er thinks o' me far behind With high spirit without fault or mist Nor the torments that rage in my mind For life and health to toast my lion. He's mine for only part of the year And I'm left all alone with only my tears Dashing darling for a while under sorrow And all Ireland under black cloaks Ye ladies that smell of wild rose Rest or pleasure I did not get Think ye for your perfume to where a man goes Since he went far away my dashing darling. Think ye o' the wives and the babies that yearn For a man ne'er returning from hunting the sperm For a while I was a gentle maiden And now a spent worn-out widow My Donald he works on the sea My spouse ploughing the waves strongly On the waves that blow wild and free Over the hills and far away. He splices the ropes and sets the sails While southward he rolls to the home of the whale Moments Songwriter: Martins Haworth My Youngest Son Came Home Today Songwriter: Eric Bogle Lyrics: Lyrics: These are the moments that we love so well Precious moments caught within a spell My youngest son came home today All too soon our lives thay fade away His friends marched with him all the way These are the moments that we wish would stay The pipes and drum beat out the time While in his box of polished pine If I had my life to live again Like dead meat on a butcher's tray I would choose to be with you my friend My youngest son came home today My youngest son was a fine young man With a wife, a daughter and two sons And if life is a bar room in which we must wait A man he would have lived and died 'Round the man with his fingers on the ivory gates Till by a bullet sanctified Where we sing until dawn of our fears and our fates Now he's a saint or so they say And we stack all the deadmen in self addressed crates They brought their young saint home today In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark That somehow this black night Above the narrow Belfast streets Feels warmer for the spark An Irish sky looks down and weeps Warmer for the spark At children's blood in gutters spilled To hold us 'til the day In dreams of freedom unfulfilled When fear will lose its grip As part of freedom's price to pay And heaven has its way My youngest son came home today Heaven knows no frontiers And I've seen heaven in your eyes My youngest son came home today His friends marched with him all the way If your life is a rough bed of brambles and nails The pipe and drum beat out the time And your spirit's a slave to man's whips and man's jails While in his box of polished pine Where you thirst and you hunger for justice and right Like dead meat on a butcher's tray Then your heart is a pure flame of man's constant night My youngest son came home today In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark And this time he'shome to stay That somehow this black night Feels warmer for the spark Nightime Warmer for the spark Songwriter: Donagh Long To hold us 'til the day when fear will lose its grip And heaven has its way Lyrics: And heaven has its way When all will harmonise I And know what's in our hearts City walls where the neon spits as it falls The dream will realise Two dark shadows fade in the night This is no place for love Heaven knows no frontiers and in the park where the streetlight kisses the dark And I've seen heaven in your eyes Silent waves and times they're own Heaven knows no frontiers They'll have their own way now And I've seen heaven in your eyes

II Nobody Lives Without Love In the nighttime neon sunset leaps Songwriter: Larry Klein - Tonio K. out of the heart of the city streets To the pavement where the dancing girls go down Lyrics: to another world Where the bright lights always sine Seemed like I'd gone off the side of a mountain From the pale love and the painted face Couldn't be sure I was even alive cheap disguises of another race Fallen from the icy heights Where the sweet life and the flowing wine makes me Landed with a broken cry Light in my head Dan takes the trouble off my mind In this valley of shadows and sorrow and sighs But I know that goes so far Can you save me baby

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We could be like lovers too dancing in this frozen room Nobody lives without love Hold me, hold me, stand so close Nobody gets to give up Take the time don't leave, don't leave me here there's You can try to lock your heart away danger But love will come back for you some day Nobody lives without love III I heard the voices in the night, flashing in the hills Thought I could live out my life as a stranger The smell of burning on the wind Hide from the heartbreak that love always brings We could be in danger from the strangers here inside Make it to the higher ground From the glory in their lives Try to turn the volume down And the passion in their eyes Couldn't stop the sirens from singing Sing for me baby Chorus & repeat II Repeat Chorus No frontiers Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy You came along like a flash of pure lightning Crashed into my life like a runaway star Lyrics: Feel myself falling like gravity's angel Now I'm standing here offering a stranger my heart If life is a river and your heart is a boat And just like a water baby, baby born to float Repeart Chorus And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high Then your heart is Amelia dying to fly Seemed like I'd gone off the side of a mountain Heaven knows no frontiers Couldn't be sure I was even alive And I've seen heaven in your eyes Thought I could live my life as a stranger Hide from the heart break that love always brings Do do do do Seemed like I'd gone off the side of a mountain Couldn't be sure I was even alive Oh you never talk about it No you never scream about it Once In a Very Blue Moon You took a spirit young and whole Songwriter: Patrick Alger/Eugene Levine You turned this child into an old soul Old soul Lyrics: One and only two can be lonely I found your letter in my mailbox today I'm my own child blessed and unholy You were just checking if I was okay I your eyes a storm surely rising up And if I miss you, well you know what they say Do do do do Just once in a very blue moon Just once in a very blue moon Oh you never talk about it Just once in a very blue moon No you never scream about it And I feel one coming on soon You covet things that you don't own You turn this child into and old soul No need to ask me if we can be friends Old sould And help me right back on my feet again And if I miss you, well just now and then One and only two can be lonely Just once in a very blue moon I'm my own child blessed and unholy Just once in a very blue moon I your eyes a storm surely rising up Just once in a very blue moon And I feel one coming on soon One and only two can be lonely I'm my own child blessed and unholy There's a blue moon shining I your eyes a storm surely rising up When I am reminded of all we've been through Such a blue moon shining Only a Woman's Heart Does it ever shine down on you? Songwriter: Eleanor McEvoy

You act as if it doesn't hurt you at all Lyrics: Like I'm the only one who's getting up from a fall Don't you remember now don't you recall My heart is low, My heart is so low Just once in a very blue moon As only a woman's heart can be Just once in a very blue moon As only a woman, as only a woman's Just once in a very blue moon As only a woman's heart can know And I feel one coming on soon Just once in a very blue moon The tears that drip from my bewildered eyes Taste of bittersweet romance Once And Only You're still in my hopes Songwriter: Scott Cutler/Annie Preven You're still on my mind oh And even though I manage on my own Lyrics: My heart is low, My heart is so low I do not see the way out As only a woman's heart can be I do not really know how As only a woman, only a woman's Like a shot in the dark As only a woman's heart can know Went your hallowed ground Had you taken too much When restless eyes reveal my troubled soul Kept me well out of touch And memories flood my weary heart And refused to let me go I mourn for my dreams I mourn for my wasted love I cannot see to you pain And while I know that I'll survive alone I do not hear you complain You are now but a dot in the pouring rain My heart is low, My heart is so low You created this mess now I'm bent to your stress As only a woman's heart can be And it seems to suit you well As only a woman, only a woman's As only a woman's heart can know One and only two can be lonely I'm my own child blessed and unholy Paddy's Lamentation I your eyes the storm surely rising up Trad. Arrangement Paddy Moloney/Mary Black Do do do do Lyrics: I do not see the way out You cannot turn this around Well it's by the hush, me boys, and sure that's to hold Like a walk in the dark your noise You have weighed me down And listen to poor Paddy's sad narration I can't stand in your place I was by hunger pressed, and in poverty distressed Can't take this away So I took a thought I'd leave the Irish nation It was all good to be true Chorus Here's to you boys, now take my advice One and only two can be lonely To America I'll have ye's not be going I'm my own child blessed and unholy There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' I your eyes a storm surely rising up cannons roar And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin Do you know how much I'm missing? No you don't, but I do Well I sold me horse and cow, my little pigs and sow My little plot of land I soon did part with Days like a slow train trickle by And me sweetheart Bid McGee, I'm afraid I'll never see Even the words that I write refuse to fly For I left her there that morning broken-hearted All that I can hear is your song haunting me Can't get the melody out of my head you see Chorus Distractions I've been using Do you know how much I'm losing? Well meself and a hundred more, to America sailed o'er No you don't, but I do Our fortunes to be made we were thinkin' When we got to Yankee land, they shoved a gun into our But I do and I wonder if I'm past the point of rescue hands An is no word from you at all the best that you can do Saying "Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln" Never meant to push or shove you Do you know how much I love you? General Meagher was he said, if you get shot or lose your No you don't, but I do. head Every murdered soul of youse will get a pension Poison Tree Well meself I lost me leg, they gave me a wooden peg, Songwriter: William Blake (poem( & Marcia Howard And by God this is the truth to you I mention (music)

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Paper Friends I was angry with my friend Songwriter: Noel Brazil I told him so and my wrath did end I was angry with my foe Lyrics: told him not and my wrath did grow

They sent you down a paper friend I hear and I watered it in fears and you went back on all the vows you once held so dear night and morning with my tears There you stretched so calm and quiet and I sunned it with smiles and things looked good now don't deny it and with soft deceitful wiles You walked on air for fifteen minutes and after that there was nothing in it and it grew both day and night You don't need those paper friends at all till it bore an apple bright no you don't need those kind of friends and my foe beheld it shine and he knew that it was mine You say you've lost your sense of time again well you've been using that excuse since who knows was a poison tree when beware of a Poison Tree You went the way of all young rebels Poison Tree ignore the Gods embrace the Devils growing inside of me But they're no good for you in your state so why not drive them right out of your gates and into my garden stole 'Cos you don't need those paper friends at all when the night had veiled the pole you don't need those type of friends in the morning glad I see my foe outstretched No one knows what you're feeling beneath that tree and life goes on in its own sweet time Your passions flame for no reason was a Poison Tree you haunt the city for something that shines beware of a Poison Tree even one thing to rhyme Poison Tree growing inside of me And if I meet you on the rounds today I hope you won't turn on your heel or walk away Poison Tree Yes I know it takes so much effort beware of a Poison Tree but facing up can be so much better Poison Tree So what if dreams they all come to nothing just blow your nose and keep on looking what happened to you 'Cos you don't need those paper friends at all and me you don't need those kind of friends Yes you don't need those paper friends at all Poison Words you don't need those paper friends Songwriter: Paul Doran

Past The Point Of Rescue Lyrics: Songwriter: Mick Hanly I remember when we were sweethearts Lyrics: I was safe with you, you were my protector Those days are over, now I need someone Last night I dreamed you were back again Someone to keep me safe from you Larger than life again, holding me tight again Placing those same kisses on my brow Love was all we had, we were young and sure Sweeter than ever now, Lord I remember how Who'd expect their love would turn to war Couldn't get enough of kissing I don't know who to pity more How much pain can love endure? For when we got to Rare's Hill, the laddie said to me We can't go home tonight my dear, it's far to late you'll I should leave you but I can't seem to see You say I'm sorry dear and I believe you But the night is warm and in my bush, I've got another Though the next time may be the worst yet drill How easily I forgive, how quickly you forget And we can lie down here, content, at the back of Rare's Hill The poison words, the ugliness When low on hope and deep into debt For then he poured a nipper piece to quiet all alarm The promises that bring regret When I awoke in the morning we were locked in each For loving you is this all I get? other's arms He handed me the bottle, another glass to fill The poison words, the ugliness And I drank his heath, in store o'wealth, at the back of the cold remains of married bliss Rare's Hill to all our dreams a fatal kiss Oh what kind of love is this? And then the lad he said to me, "Oh lassie do not mourn" "For while I draw the breath of life from you I'll never Prayer For Love harm" Songwriter: Thom Moore "If you will come to yonder town, my wedded wife you'll be" Lyrics: "we'll be the happiest couple t'was ever in Dundee"

Faith won't heal up everthing So it's may I never prosper, and may I never thrive The wound grows and you believe in love In anything I take in hand as long as I'm alive Walk around feeling cut in two, If e'er I say I rue the day, my laddie had his will Wide open, with your hear on view Success to Lady Mary's fair, and the back of Rare's Hill. All you bereaved, all you besotted boys in need, When love won't heel you, wh, why believe she will? Raven In the storm Songwriter: John Gorka & Geoff Bartley O Lyubvi malyu otchayanno Say it on your knees Lyrics:

Oh, so sharp, and way too cool, I'm the latest apparition Love's bright and biggest fool Cutting slices in the night has to work on speaking slow, I come through without permission To think hard, and to lie low Moving in and out of human sight Will you believe? All you bedazzled boys in need, V krayu dalyokum, chuzhie ne nuzhny. I'm the tapping on your shoulder I am the raving in the storm Chorus I'll take shelter in you rafters I'm the shiver when you're warm O tyubvi malyum otchayanno Say it on your knees, I'm the gold in California Crying like a baby, "Plese, please, please!" I am the well in Mexico Crying, hoping maybe, Like the vultures in the valley O tyubvi malyum otchayanno I will wait for you to go Say it on your knees, I'm the gypsy in you pocket Candle is a splendid thing: I am the horseman in your dreams The room glows, and the candle sings I'm the reason dogs are barking "Fly up to the only light, I am the hand that stops the scream "Ev'ry, ev'ry tiny wing!" The moth inside you bolts off to join the beautiful; I am the baby's cry that isn't He flies and dies, I am the distant relative So quickly, quickly wise. I'm the scratching in the ceiling I am advice you shouldn't give Chorus... I'm the ghost of a travelling salesman Rares Hill My foot will be there in your door Trad. Arrangement Mary Black Though I can walk through walls and windows I will knock just like before Lyrics: I am the darkness in your daughter Last year at Lady Mary's fair when I was in Dundee I am the spot beneath the skin I fell in with an old sweetheart and he being on a spree I am the scarlet on the pavement His company I did accept and with him I did go I am the broken heart within But to my sad misfortune it proved my poor 'through We wandered east we wandered west we wandered I won't take a train to nowhere through the lawn I will not touch just anyone He said he'd see me home that night but home I never Ask a stranger why I'm waiting saw In the chamber of a gun He kept beside me all the while resolved to have his will And by and by we lost our way, at the back of Rare's Hill Ring Them Bells Songwriter: Bob Dylan My heart's beating under a cloud Lyrics: I can't get away from you now Róisín Ring them bells, ye heathen From the city that dreams My heart's beating under a cloud Ring them bells from the sanctuaries There's nothing out of it now Cross the valleys and streams Róisín Róisín For they're deep and they're wide And the world's on its side Rose Of Allendale And time is running backwards Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement Mary Black And so is the bride Lyrics: Ring the bells St.Peter The moon was bright, the night was clear Where the four winds blow No breeze came over the sea Ring them bells with an iron hand When Mary left her highland home For the people will know And wandered forth with me Oh it's rush hour now The flowers be-decked the mountainside On the wheel and the plow And fragrance filled the vale And the sun is going down But by far the sweetest flower there Upon the sacred cow Was the Rose of Allendale

Ring them bells Sweet Martha Oh the Rose of Allendale For the poor man's son Sweet Rose of Allendale Ring them bells so the world will know By far the sweetest flower there That God is one Was the Rose of Allendale Oh the shephered is asleep Where the willows weep Where e'er I wandered east or west And the mountains they are filled Though fate began to lour With lost sheep A solace still was she to me In sorrow's lonely hour Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf When tempests lashed our lonely barque Ring them bells for all of us who are left And rent her quivering sail Ring them bells for the chosen few One maiden's form withstood the storm Who will judge the many when the day is through 'Twas the Rose of Allendale Ring them bells, for the time that flies For the child that cries Oh sweet Rose of Allendale When the innocence dies Sweet Rose of Allendale One maiden's form withstood the storm Ring them bells St.Catherine 'Twas the Rose of Allendale From the top of the room Ring the bells from the fortress And when my fever'd lips were parched For the lillies that bloom On Afric's burning sands For the lines they are long She whispered hopes of happiness And the fighting is strong And tales of distant lands And they're breaking down the distance My life has been a wilderness Between right and wrong Unblessed by fortune's wheel Had fate not linked my love to hers Róisín The Rose of Allendale Songwriter: Noel Brazil Oh sweet Rose of Allendale Lyrics: Sweet Rose of Allendale Half the time I don't even hear what people are saying Had fate not linked my love to hers Half the time I'm so far gone not a word gets in The Rose of Allendale I'm here you're there okay but I just want to tell you Róisín Saw You Running Songwriter: Thom Moore Which side of the coin we show is open to debate Either way I accept what the wind brings Lyrics: I'm here you're there okay but I just want to tell you When I lay down to take my rest Róisín Róisín Most of the time my minds on happiness, yes Some of the time but not for long Is it the way that I'm too late? I get a feeling of something that's yet to come If there's a chance you know I'll wait I get a picture telling me what's undone Róisín Chorus Other hands claw but mine can be gentle No bad blood within me When I find out that you don't love me honey This is a thing so rare oh it's great to be near you When I find out that your going away Róisín Róisín There'll be no surprise Because I saw you running If all is fair in love and war Saw you running from where I lay Why am I here and you're so far? There'll be no surprise Róisín Because I saw you running Saw you running from where I lay And that was the last Well I've got an eye upon the road That I saw of my dear And I've got a hand to hold my heavy load oh yes I've got a man and I've got a gun I dreamed last night One is for fighting oh the other one is just for fun That my true love came in One is for fighting oh the other one is just for fun So softly she entered Her feet made no din Chorus She came close beside me And this she did say When I lay down to take my rest It will not be long love Most of the time my minds on happiness, yes Till our wedding day Some of the time but not for long I get a feeling of something that's yet to come Shine I get a picture telling me what's undone Songwriter: David Gray

2x Chorus Lyrics: I can see it in your eyes Schooldays Over What I know in my heart is true Songwriter: Ewan McColl That our love it has faded like the summer run through So we walk doen the shore line one last time together Lyrics: Feel the wind blow our wandering hearts like a feather Schooldays over, come on then John But who knows who's waiting in the wings of time Time to be getting your pit boots on Dry your eyes On with your sack and your moleskin trousers We're gonna go where we can shine Time you were on your way Time you were learning the pitman's job Don't be hiding in sorrow or clinging to the past And earning a pitman's pay. With your beauty so precious and the seasons so fast No matter how cold the horizon appears or how far the Come on then Jim, it's time to go first night when I Time you were working down below Time to be handling a pick and shovel held you near You start at the pits today You've gotta rise from these ashes like a bird of flame Time to be learning the collier's job Take my hand And earning a collier's pay. We're gonna go where we can shine

Come on then Dai, it's nearly light For all that we struggle for all we pretend Time you were off to the anthracite It don't come down to nothing except love in the end The morning mist is on the valley And ours is a road that is strewn with goodbyes It's time you were on your way But as it unfolds as it all unwinds Time you were learning the miner's job Remember your soul is the one thing you just can't And earning a miner's pay compromise Step out of the shadows Repeat First Verse You gotta go where we can shine She Moves Through The Fair Oh we're gonna go where we can shine Songwriter: Traditional Shine

Lyrics: Shuffle Of The Buckled Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy My love said to me My Mother won't mind Lyrics: And me Father won't slight you The moon was full For you lack of kind And their hearts were empty Then she stepped away from me When I stopped to watch the river go down And this she did say Saw the gleaming eyes It will not be long love On your blind two corners Till our wedding day Heard the Shuffle of the Buckled As they come to lay their money down She stepped away from me And she moved through the Fair Ooo not even with his money down And fondly I watched her And he fades in the shadows Move here and move there Of the walls of night in this town And she went her way homeward He just fades in the shadows With on star awake Of the walls of night in this town As the swans in the evening Move over the lake My heart was numb and my eyes stopped running And the wind chilled my bones where I stopped The people were saying To watch that river go down No two e'er were wed And the song on this street But one has a sorrow Boasts no chest proud anthem That never was said It's the shuffle of the buckled And she smiled as she passed me As they come to lay their money down With her goods and her gear Chorus Stood on Dingle beach The moon was full and cast in wild foam we found Atlantic bass And their hearts were empty Living on your western shore, When I stopped to watch the river go down saw summer sunsets asked for more Ooo not even with his money down I stood by your Atlantic sea and sang a song for Ireland Siúl A Rún Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement Mary Black Dreaming in the night I saw a land where no man had to fight Lyrics: Waking in your dawn I saw you crying in the morning light I would I were on yonder hill Lying where the falcons fly, It's there I'd sit and cry my fill they twist and turn all in you e'er blue sky And every tear would turn the mill Living on your western shore, Is go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán saw summer sunsets asked for more I stood by your Atlantic sea Chorus and sang a song for Ireland Siúl siúl siúl a rún Siúl go socair 'is siúl go ciúin Sonny Siúl go doras agus éalaigh liom Songwriter: R. Hynes Is go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán Lyrics: I'll sell my rock I'll sell my reel I'll sell my only spinning wheel Sonny lives on a farm, in a wide open space For to buy my love a coat of steel Take off your shoes, stay out of the race Is go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán Lay down your head, on a soft river bed Sonny always remembers the words Mamma says. Chorus Chorus I'll dye my petticoats I'll dye them red Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone And round the world I'll beg for bread Your Daddy's a sailor, never comes home, Until my parents would wish me dead Nights are so long, silence goes on, Is go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.

Chorus Sonny works on the land, though he's barely a man There's not much to do but he does what he can And now my love has gone to France Sits by his window in his room by the stairs To try his fortune to advance Watching the waves drifting soft on the pier. If he ne'er came back there'll be but a chance Is go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán Chorus

Chorus Many years have rolled on, Sonny's old and alone His Daddy the sailor, never came home Song For Ireland Sometimes he wonders what his life might have been Songwriter: Phil Colclough But from the grave Mamma still haunts his dreams. Chorus Lyrics: Walking all the day, near tall towers Soul Sister where falcons build their nests Songwriter: Shane Howard Siver winged they fly, they know the call of freedom in their breasts Lyrics: Saw Black Head against the sky Looking back with twisted rocks that run down to the sea Down that long road you have travelled Living on your western shore, And I see saw summer sunsets, asked for more All the pain that you have suffered I stood by your Atlantic sea and sang a song for Ireland A young girl waks on ancient sand Desert flower in her hand Talking all the day with true friends Barefoot on the red heartland who try to make you stay Innocence makes few demands Telling jokes and news, singing songs to pass the night away Heart and soul Watched the Galway salmon run My soul sister like silver dancing darting in the sun Got that special part of me Living on your western shore Such sweet love saw summer sunsets, asked for more And deep devotion I stood by your Atlantic sea Who would tame what's wild and free? and sang a song for Ireland Here we are Drinking all the day in old pubs In this crazy, crazy world where fiddlers love to play Circumstance Someone touched the bow, Can lead you on to desperation he played a reel Love can save the weary heart it seemed so fine and gay Or it can tear us all apart I would rather take that chance Speaking With The Angel Than to never trust again Songwriter: Ron Sexsmith

Heart and soul Lyrics: My soul sister He don't know how to lie Got that special part of me Or undermine you Such sweet love and deep devotion He don't know how to steal Who would tame what's wild and free? How to deal or deceive So leave him alone, set him free Looking forward Cause he's speaking with the angel Down that long road we might travel That only he can see And I see All the joy that is recovered You say he's so helpless See the young boy by the river side Well what about you He throws a stick to the other side You don't pull the strings It carries with the rising tide Don't you know anything Sometimes we might reach too high Just leave him alone, let him be Cause he's speaking with the angel Heart and soul That only he can see My soul sister Got that special part of me Would you teach him about heaven Such sweet love and deep devotion Would you show him how to love the earth Who would tame what's wild and free? Would you poison him with prejudice From the moment of his birth Loving heart so wild and free Who could chance what's wild and free? He in the name of love He in the blood of the lamb Sparks Might Fly He that never lays blame Songwriter: Noel Brazil He don't even know his name Just leave him alone, let him be Lyrics: Cause he's speaking with the angel I cannot stop this child from touching me Speaking with the angel I see not fault in watching her bloom The very one that spoke to you and me She knows where fire begins and where sparks might fly Oh do you remember? Yet I feel she may be consumed. St. Kilda Again She done turns on the B stage Songwriter: Shane Howard She shook hands when the shoe fit I wanna know how the land lies Lyrics: I'll let you in on a secret. With your famous philosophies I did not steal away when love rode by Tied up in brown paper wrapping and string I did not let myself be unkind You stepped back through time It's so heard to say where love meets lust Like the time that you stepped through I often think I'm losing my mind. Meant nothing at all A little bit weary and world worn and eager I trade notes with the press league For taking some more They send back their suggestions And we leaned on each other like brothers I wanna know where I come from And fought with our backs to the wall But all I get are directions. Chorus Chorus We took no routine stance We were living' our lives by chance I can't get started, can't get pain Robbing Peter for Paul What's wrong? Losing it all Big ideas, the find intentions Maybe I'll find you one Saturday night They're all gone In St. Kilda again It takes two flagons of courage Pounds, shillings and pence We were wrong the world didn't end You wind up going nowhere Between there and here It doesn't make sense. Thought it's still looking shaky and worn Did you give up your dreaming I see my brother's face grow dark with care Believing time finds a price for us all I spend my time avoiding his gaze But time is an enemy, patient and clever I pray that God might make his dreams come true And way beyond our control I'd give so much to feel he's been saved. When you run out of time It's funny but money can't talk at all A bright spark in the playground Dead loss as an anchor Chorus You don't call him a misfit He's just stuck for an answer. When the world turned rough And betrayed your trust Chorus (2) And they left you out in the cold In the deafening silence A man is an island I'm falling, falling, falling When he's out on his own and you're living in a glass jar A little bit weary and world worn Not eager for talking anymore Sitting in your place Hey brother what happened Inside your window draped in lace To standing and fighting I feel my fingers scratch the pane With our backs to the wall I don't want to fall in love again My heart is in your hands Chorus A Prince in these love lands

Stand Up Something must be done Songwriter: Danny O'Reilly/Mary Black about my state of heart The throne stands empty in the dawn Lyrics: lies empty in the dark My heart is in your hands I've been searching Prince in these love lands Through other people's words Looking for direction Chorus I've been trying To get into their worlds Still Believing Without satisfaction Songwriter: Thom Moore So don't go changing Your troubled mind again Lyrics: You gotta make decisions Night owns my white bones but Don't go waiting What's left is still saying On middle ground when Strange prayers in high places It's not a safe position Wild airs with wilder graces Birds fly with no motion Chorus What draws me draws the ocean Though you've lost all you received It's not what you got it's what you believe in Chorus Though you've forgot all you need You've got to stand up Down on my knees again, For what you believe in Still believing In the time of reason no more A lack of something Down on my knees again Is evident again Still believing I feel I must explain Peace of mind is worth any chore 'Cause I feel nothing But frustration and pain Great dreams and laid schemes That I can't contain Just blown down by high winds And strong signs from old forces Chorus Wild dogs run trackless courses Night changes sweet mountain Don't leave me behind Vain hopes need cold fountains Out of sight is out of mind Please don't let me stray Chorus I know I'll be okay Night owns my white bones but So now I see What's left is still saying I've got to get off of this fence, My mind's made up now Chorus... 'Cause I feel free And my soul can make amends Straight As A Die For all this doubt Songwriter: Noel Brazil

Chorus Lyrics:

She roots out her best earrings with a comb The ones that go with her rowdy red hair State Of Heart Weaves her way between the plastic and the bones Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Leaves all her empty evenings hanging in the air

Lyrics: And he don't mind that she's a short-tempered girl Something must be done He don't mind that she may soon say goodbye About my state of heart He don't mind 'cause she's got something he loves Woke with it this morning She's as straight as a die and now it's nearly dark I don't know what to do She sees the men out changing the state the blame must lie with you Knows they stoop through her eyes are half drowned Hears the steeple say it's a quarter past eight Chorus: Moves on in a hurry well she's a long way from town

Falling, falling, I'm falling for you. He don't mind that she's a short-tempered girl He don't mind that she may soon make him cry In the afternoon He don't mind 'cause she's got something he loves we'll know what it is to believe She's as straight as a die When it's afternoon and I covet you We won't get away from this either In the afternoon No matter how hard we try I'll give you no reason to leave The truth is there to catch us The truth is going to save our lives Done with time and patience I moved with the crowd He's in a thrill of anticipation Lonely in my silence So glad he bought something small and being without To give her for a gift Then all in one instant He feels kind of silly straight out of the blue In case she thinks he's having her on Out of all its goodness All he meant was The summer sent you She's got a friend she can kiss Now its evening time And he don't mind that she's a short-tempered girl and I reach for you lying beside me He don't mind that she soon has to fly Now its evening time He don't mind 'cause she's got something he loves your kiss will be tender and sure She's as straight as a die Now its evening time just like every time Strange Thing In the evening time Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy I love you as much as before

Lyrics: Done with time and patience I I moved with the crowd Once in a while I can smile that old smile Lonely in my silence And I know I'm in trouble again and being without Even though you get older that old tap on the shoulder Then all in one instance Will turn you again and again straight out of the blue Out of all its goodness Chorus The Summer sent you All in one sweet instant I couldn't change it, I've never arranged it straight out of the blue That's what the strange bit's always been Out of all its goodness The Summer sent you II O give me the time and the sweet taste of wine Tearing Up The Town And I'll tell you that story again Songwriter: Noel Brazil Of the look in his eye long before all the lies and the parting began to begin Lyrics: A shimmer or a shudder, a sentence or a shriek Chorus What other languages do we speak? I don't know what the answer is, but fair dues to you III A local lack of wisdom never stopped your being true Strange thing this ol' love business Strange thing this ol' love A drummer in the basement Strange thing this love business A rhythm - roll at each hand's turn Look what love has done to us Finding one thing you can believe in Could seem like so much work IV You've heard the cry before O the making you cry and the saying good-bye Up and away we shall go And the whole damn thing is insane Tearing up the town Even though you get older that old tap on the shoulder Tearing up the town will turn you again and again Hurry to dinner, son, the heat is on Chorus & repeat III Your daddy's in the oven and your mamma, she's gone She went down to the clinic, but the news was not good Summer Sent You They told her it was nothing much, but she'd had quite Songwriter: Noel Brazil enough

Lyrics: The ruins of a household, a loverboy who sits and stares When the morning comes "No, No" she cried, "I can't take it, I'm gonna go out I gaze on you with desire somewhere" When the morning comes You've heard the cry before my look will be perfectly plain Up and away she goes When the morning comes She's tearing up the town my beloved one Tearing up the town When the morning comes Tearing up the town you'll know that we both feel the same Now we're really with it, comrades, now we're set In the afternoon Ben Dolan's right behind us with the castanets misgivings will pale into nothing It took a lot of pleading, but he came here after all And Ben's the very boy to take us right to where we want three You're twisting my words into serpents, I'm down on my Hey, look at them couples linking through the rainy knees. streets Someplace to be in love, the best there'll ever be Oh my pretty darling, I thought you'd come to stay Oh sister sadness, get yourself behind me I thought you'd come to stay, I thought you'd come to Oh brother badness, why must you deny me? stay. It doesn't matter where I've gone I'm on the run like everyone The Crow On The Cradle Tearing up the town Songwriter: Carter Tearing up the town We're tearing up the town Lyrics: The sheep's in the meadow The Broom of The Cowdenknows The cow's in the corn Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement The Black Family Now is the time for a child to be born You'll laugh at the moon and you'll cry for the sun Lyrics: And if it's a boy he'll carry a gun How blithe each mom was I to see Sang the crow on the cradle My lass come o'er the hill She skipped the burn and ran to me And if it should be that this baby's a girl I met her with good will Never you mind if her hair doesn't curl With rings on her fingers DNA bells on her toes Chorus A shadow above her wherever she goes Sang the crow on the cradle Oh the broom, the bonny, bonny broom The broom O' The Cowdenknowes The crow on the cradle Faen would I be in my aen country The black on the white Herding her father's ewes Somebody's baby is born for a fight The crow on the cradle She neither herded ewes nor lambs The white on the black while the flock asleeping lay Somebody's baby is not coming back She gathered in the sheep at night Sang the crow on the cradle And cheered me all the day Bring me my gun and I'll shoot Chorus that bird dead That's what your mother and It's hard that I should banished be father once said Gang oe'r lea and moor A crow on the cradle what can we do Because I loved the fairest lass This is the thing I must leave up to you That e'er on earth was born Sang the crow on the cradle

Chorus The Dimming Of The Day Songwriter: Richard Thompson Adieu ye bonny ewes adieu farewell all pleasures there Lyrics: To wander by her side again This old house is falling down around my ears Is all I crave or care I'm drowning in a river of my tears When all my will is gone you hold me sway The Circus I need you at the dimming of the day Songwriter: Noel Brazil You pull me like the moon pulls on the tide Lyrics: You know just where I keep my better side The sky collapsed around us, You didn't seem to care I hailed you through the raindrops, You weren't even What days have come to keep us far apart there. A broken promise or a broken heart Now all the bonnie birds have wheeled away I juggle with the breakfast, You fret behind the sheets I need you at the dimming of the day I want you to be steadfast, You want to be released. Come the night you're only what I want CHORUS: Come the night you could be my confident Oh my pretty darling, Where did we go astray Oh my pretty darling, I thought you'd come to stay. I see you on the street in company Why don't you come and ease your mind with me We're all dollied up for the circus, Oh isn't it grand I'm living for the night we steal away We're laughing, jumping and kissing, We're beating the I need you at the dimming of the day band. I need you at the dimming of the day

I've got no more smiles to win you, No tricks to turn your The Fog In Monterey head Songwriter: Thom Moore When love cannot continue, There's not much to be said. Lyrics: CHORUS Some days the fog in Monterey comes Blowing from the grove above, and then tears away It's all cut and thrust at the circus, And maybe makes The drifting patches lift and fold Then sunlight cuts them white and cold mmm... In Monterey -- fog comes, oh, then It tears away By the side of the swirling sea I spent the days of childish wonder A heart sick lover comes to stay; And the rocks I held in my young hands She leaves the one she loves behind, I never felt them slip away And then tears away. She walks the hill in sudden wonder; Well the sun shone bright upon the waves Is she dead or just undone? And the wind blew high as I was leaving She's lost her way -- love comes, oh, then And I sailed so far away It tears away Looking for adventure mmm... Some nights this girl in Monterey Lies dreaming in her room above, then tears away: But I would not stay where the city streets Her eyes are on her lover's face; proclaimed so loudly man's endeavours He smiles, and she can hardly wait -- Though music is a pretty thing Is it night or day? -- dream comes, oh, then in fine company It tears away And the wilderness took my breath away I felt I had to find my way But now that morning's on its way Where no-one ever goes Too soon the dreamer's drowned in fog that tears away mmm... The clouds that cover Monterey Crowd by as if they're here to say It was in the south that my new home lay "We never stay -- she comes, oh, then With a dark eyed boy and wild horses She tears away" With humming birds and roses there in old Mexico Some days the fog in Monterey comes Blowing from the grove above, then tears away; There the winds of change they blew so far It comes--oh, then Of liberty and revolution It tears away. And it seemed that each man heard in his breast the drumming of a nation The Fool's Dream mmm... Songwriter: Johnny McCarthy & Pat Crowley Repeat the first verse Lyrics: I stand on the shore, a-gazing The Holy Ground Looking out on the deep rolling sea Traditional. Arr. Jimmy Crowley / Mary Black Wishing you're coming back to me Returning home across the sea Lyrics: But it's only a fool's dream Farewell my lovely Johnny, My face from you memory faded a thousand times adieu Is your mind on some other than me? You are going away from the holy ground You know what it's like now to be free And the ones that love you true Or you could be still thinking of me You will sail the salt seas over But it's only a fool's dream And then return for sure To see again the ones you love When I am here in this strange land alone And the holy ground once more It is you that is always on my mind Hoping that I will soon be with you You're on the salt sea sailing Coming with riches plenty And I am safe behind Returning home across the sea Fond letters I will write to you To make real our fool's dream The secrets of my mind And the secrets of my mind, my love United we'll be forever You're the one that I adore With our friends all around us to see Still I live in hopes you'll see How we were always meant to be The holy ground once more To stay together you and me And it was never a fool's dream I see the storm a risin' And it's coming quick and soon A home we will build together And the night's so dark and cloudy In the field overlooking the sea You can scarcely see the moon Where we'll have children plenty And the secrets of my mind, my love All will say it was plain to see You're the one that I adore That it never was a fool's dream And still I live in hopes you'll see The holy ground once more The Holy Ground Songwriter: Gerry O'Beirne But now the storms are over And you are safe and well Lyrics: We will go into a public house I was born on the holy ground And we'll sit and drink our fill A running child in fields of clover We will drink strong ale and porter I was living in the grandeur And we'll make the rafters roar Of my father's land And when our money it is all spent You'll go to sea once more I remember the loving time You're the one that I adore and nothing else really counts And still I live in hopes that you'll see The holy ground once more And I recall the promise they made With a faith I can but admire The Land Of Love That she'd be the one he adored Songwriter: Noel Brazil and he'd be her hearts desire

Lyrics: It didn't come true in the end they went their separate ways I saw you in the reeds by the river He couldn't change what he was Looked to me like you were having fun she wasn't ready to wait Can't decide if I was only dreaming They couldn't live in the daylight I know you'll tell me all when I come they let the night close in I'm passing through the pearly gates and the holy ground took care of everything I don't know why I feel so good I'm entering a far better place I remember the loving time They tell me it's the land of love and nothing else really counts

I wish that you'd been there The Moon And St. Christopher To see the horses Songwriter: Mary Capin Carpenter You would not believe how they danced The meadow seemed on fire Lyrics: With their playing When I was young I spoke like a child, And I saw with a And me I just stood there entranced childs eyes And an open door was to a girl, Like the stars are to the I'm passing through the pearly gates skies I don't know why I feel so good It's funny how the world lives up to all your expectations I'm entering a far better place With adventures for the stout of heart, And the lure of 'Cos I'm living in the land of love the open spaces.

And if I do ever find There's two lanes running down this road, And whichever What it is that you seek side you are on You can bet that I'll keep you informed Accounts for where you want to go, And what you are It's only just after all running from 'Cause in times of unease Back when darkness overtook me, On a blindman's You were always on hand to keep me warm curve.

A woman sits and stares into the distance CHORUS: Her hands sitting pretty on her knees She gazes on the view before her I relied upon the moon, I relied upon the moon She wonders what goes on behind the trees I relied upon the moon and St. Christopher. There's so much going on behind the trees Now I've paid my dues 'cause I have owed them, But I've She's passing through the pearly gates paid a price She can't say why she feels this good She's entering a far better place sometimes She's living in the land of love For being such a stubborn woman, In such stubborn An angel in the land of love times She's so happy in the land of love I have run from the arms of lovers, I have run from the Let's go to the land of love eyes of friends I have run from the hands of kindness, I have run just The Loving Time because I can. Songwriter: Noel Brazil Now I've grown and I speak like a woman, And I see with Lyrics: a woman's It reads like a fairytale and that's what it was eyes Young man in his prime And an open door is to me now, Like the saddest of young girl from the cross goodbyes The most perfect of strangers Well it's too late for turning back, And I pray for the and then the night closed in heart and nerve and the holy ground took care of everything . CHORUS: (repeat chorus) Now she was a fine one and he was a handsome man I relied upon the moon, I relied upon the moon One look was enough I relied upon the moon and St. Christopher to be my and away they ran guide. They spend many happy hours and then the night closed in The Motorway Song and the holy ground took care of everything Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement The Black Family

Oh what's the use in complaining Lyrics: In for a penny in for a pound Chorus There's no time to play They're going to build a motorway I don't want any blessing Through me back garden 'Cause I spy you headed my way No one can explain why I came to be chosen I could carve your name They're going to build a motorway Down on a stone They're ripping up the trees That's no big thing Soon the lorries will be zooming through Ah but when I see your face Me cabbages and peas There's no need for talking

The brother lives in Lilac Grove The real you is there to see It's just across the street The real you is the one for me I've not seen him for weeks All through this rocky ride We always used to meet Lets do our bit in this full tide And have a pint or two at Paddy Lowes It's just a heap of rubble now I was lost in a fog The pawn shop's disappeared Living in a world I never knew about And so's the barbers where we always used to go Now I'm standing in a place Well I dunno And heaven's all around These noisey great machines are workin' nonstop The shadows have all washed out And funny things are growin' Yeah the shadows have all washed out And it looks as though the bomb's dropped Oh what paradise is this The bulldozers are closin' in now The words of welcome on your lips On me back garden The stamp of certainty No one can explain why I came to be chosen In all your steps The bulldozers are closin' in You're here to save me from They've ripped up all the trees This slow death Soon the lorries will be zooming through My cabbages and peas The real you is there to see The real you is the one for me I don't go out much any more All through this rocky ride Can't find me way around Lets do our bit in this full tide Wind nearly knocks me down There's tunnels underground The real you is there to see An' just to get about from place to place The real you has the best for me Is like a bleedin' steeplechase Gods loves even the poorest life Day an' night the traffic flows So let's do our bit in this full tide It's best to plug your ears and hold your nose In this full tide Well, I suppose I'm better off than some, The Shadow don't think I'm just sour Songwriter: Donagh Long I'm grateful for the grandstand view I'm getting Of the rush hour Lyrics: And it's over now They've built and eight lane motorway The guns have flowed Through me back garden The nightmare flashed No one can explain On a cradle road Why I came to be chosen As the guilty rain came down They've built an eight lane motorway No child to hold They've ripped up all the trees Through anxious fears now the lorries zoom where once I grew No gentle hand Me cabbages and peas To catch the tears That soak this ancient ground The Real You Songwriter: Noel Brazil The smile that breaks so gently Belies a troubled head Lyrics: Like a voice that holds the secrets Of the life you might have led Your hands are cold lover Eyes with pale indifference Where have you been? In danger and in grace You don't need persuasion But the glance that knows the death-knell You just need a sin Left its shadow on your face We can differ In the deep enduring darkness Thought the hours of the night As your loyal friends go down That's no big thing Touched by the violent crown Ah but give me one embrace 'Til their hunter's hunted down And I'll stop all my talking Chorus The real you is there to see The real you is the one for me The web is slowly woven All through this rocky ride The endless dreamers shed, Lets do our bit in this full tide In the dawn the curfew is broken On the Sunday morning's dead. Life gets so serious Centuries of thunder Take the Castle in the flood faces To the cold night air of London in the snow Where you hands are bound in blood. He got the urge for goin and I had to let him go Mid winter deepened As the parting turned inside Chorus A thousand times you cried But the shadow never died. Well he got the urge for going When the meadow grasses are turnin' brown And it's over now Summer time is a fallin' down The guns have flowed Winter's closing in The night mare flashed On a cradle road. And the warriors of winter gave a cold triumphant shout As the guilty rain came down. All that stays is dying and all that lives is getting out No child to hold You see the geese in chevron flight a flapping and a Through anxious fears racing on before the No gentle hand No graceful years snow Just bitter ancient ground. They've got the urge for going and they've got the wings to go But it's over now Chorus The Thorn Upon The Rose Songwriter: Julie Matthews I'll pile the fire with kindlin' and pull the blankets to my chin Lyrics: I'll lock the vagrant winter out and bolt my wanderin' in Its taste was sweet like summer wine I'd like to call back summertime and let her stay for just The heart that beats in double time another month or So he waltzed right in and bowled you over And you're still reeling from the feeling when he's gone so The door is closed the lock is turned But she's got the urge for goin, and I'll have to let her go And all the memories and letters have been burned Chorus... Chorus The Water is Wide So when you pick the handsome flower Trad. Arranged by Mary Black Don't forget the thron upon the rose It's cut is deep and the scar lasts forever Lyrics: It follows love whereever love goes I Just how we fall it's hard to know The water is wide, I can't cross o'er When what we feel we seldom show Ad neither have I wings to fly So we show the parts we feel are best Give me a boat that can carry two We squirm around the edges trying to cover up the rest And we shall row, my love and I And you think you know him and he thinks the same When underneath it all it's just a crazy guessing game II For love is gentle, and love is kind Chorus The sweetest flower when first it's new But love grows old and waxes cold Win or lose it's just the same And fades away like morning dew Tears of joy tears of pain They're hand in hand they come as one III You'll never see the moon without the promise of the sun There is a ship and she sails the sea For all the bruises for all the blows She's loaded deep as deep can be I'd rather feel the thorn than to never see the rose But not as deep as the love I'm in I know now how I sink or swim Chorus... Repeat II then I The Urge For Going Songwriter: Joni Mitchell There Is A Time Songwriter: Johnny Duhan Lyrics: Well I woke up today and found frost perched on the Lyrics: town There is a time in life it seems It hovered in a frozen sky and gobbled summer down For believing in dreams, for me it's gone And when the sun turned straight and cold and shiverin' And though I realize today Trees are standing in a naked row Dreams are empty anyway, I still feel wronged. I get the urge for going and I never seem to go Chorus I had someone in the summer time with summer coloured skin I felt cheated when you went away And not another one in town my darling's heart could win But not as defeated as I felt the day And when the leaves fell tumbling down and bully winds You came back and we found so little to say. did rub their There is a time in life I know When we all must outgrow young ideals And the wisdom that we gain Chorus 3x Is paid for with the pain I now feel. To Make You Feel My Love Songwriter: Bob Dylan Chorus Lyrics: There is a time in life it seems When the rain is blowing in your face For believing in dreams for me it's gone. And the whole world is on your case I could offer you a warm embrace Theres A Train That Leaves Tonight To make you feel my love Songwriter: Sinnott/Henderson When the evening shadows and the stars appear And there is no one there to dry your tears Lyrics: I could hold you for a million years Like a jazz refrain the midnight train is callin' To make you feel my love Hey, you'd best go soon the late night moon is fallin' Let the nightbirds whisper to themselves I know you haven't made your mind up yet This train pulls out at twelve But I would never do you wrong High tides breakin' on the shores, church bell tolls I've known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong Chorus: I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue There's a train that leaves tonight I'd go crawling down the avenue I might just ride on There's nothing that I wouldn't do Nothin' here that makes me wanna stay To make you feel my love There's a train that leaves tonight I might just ride away The storms are raging on the rollin' sea And on the highway of regret I just can't hope to tell you 'bout the stillness and the The winds of change are blowing wild and free quiet You ain't seen nothing like me yet 'Bout the frozen fields so lonely and the train songs in the night I could make you happy, make your dreams come true About the sounds of nothin' moving, night fields all aglow Nothing that I wouldn't do I simply got to leave you my heart cries out to go Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love Chorus Treasure Island This Love Will Carry Songwriter: John Gorka Songwriter: Dougie McLean Lyrics: Lyrics: O love is never easy It's a thin line that leads us It's almost always out of your way And keeps someone from shame It's not the path of least resistance The dark clouds quickly gather It's not some words you get to say Along the way they came It's a stream running up a mountain There's fear out on the mountain It's a wave rolling out from the shore And death out on the plane Wish I could say I never felt that way before There's heartbreak and heartache In a shadow of the flame I have a friend who's lonely She is chasing after her dreams Chorus And she is the one and only One who knows how hard it could be But this love will carry This love will carry me Chorus: I know this love will carry me There's a treasure on her island The strongest web will tangle Buried in the city of news The sweetest bloom will fall Wish I could say we didn't have that much to lose Somewhere in the distance We try and catch it all Yeh one friend tried to end it Success lasts for a moment He could not see the good in his life And failures always near In his mirror or his pocket But you look down at your blistered hands And his hopes had come down like a knife As turns another year It's a stream running up a mountain Chorus 2x It's a wave rolling out from the shore Wish I could say I never felt that way before So these days are golden There's a treasure on these islands They must not waste away Our time is like that flower Trespass Shoes And soon it will decay Songwriter: David Gray And though by storms we weaken Uncertainty is sure Lyrics: Like the coming of the dawn When I see you coming It's ours forever more In your trespass shoes Hear the song you're humming High above the ring How can i refuse Watch them balancing With your half drunk bottle See how they unite And your slurring tongue We too can get it right. Singing sentimental Don't it always make me feel so young We don't always seem to get along And one of us often acts too strong Been alone Sometimes we find we're goin' wrong We've been together Trying to get the balance right. Stood at toe to toe Getting older doesn't matter when lights down low Chorus When the push comes down to shoving When the four winds blow We don't always live in harmony Ain't nobody ever loved me like you do And often there are times when we are enemies But I love you and you love me Now my heels are snagging When we get the balance right On these pavement stones When we get the balance right Days and nights are dragging We can get the balance right. Till I get you home With your four o'clock shadow Turning Away and your cowboy songs Songwriter: Dougie McLean Singing sentimental Don't it always make me feel so strong Lyrics: Chorus Been alone We've been together In darkness we do what we can Stood at toe to toe In daylight we're oblivion Getting older doesn't matter when lights down low Our hearts so raw and clear Push comes to shove and worse for better Are turning away, turning away from here when the four winds blow Ain't nobody ever loved me like you do On water we have walked like the fearless child What was fastened we've unlocked revealing wondrous With your forehead furrowed wild And your facts all wrong And in search for confirmation Oh so temperamental We have jumped into the fire Oh but baby when it's said and done And scrambled with our burning feet through uncontrolled desire Been alone We've been together Chorus Stood at toe to toe Getting older doesn't matter when lights down low There's a well upon the hill from our ancient past Push comes to shove and worse for better Where an age is standing still holding strong and fast Only goes to show when the four winds blow And there's those that try to tame it And the carve it into stone Been alone Ah but words cannot extinguish it We've been together However hard they're thrown Stood at toe to toe Getting older doesn't matter when lights down low Chorus Push comes to shove and worse for better Only goes to show On Racherie they have worked with their island dreams Ain't nobody ever loved me like you do By Lough Cleggan they have nourished in the mountain Ain't nobody ever loved me like you do streams Ain't nobody ever loved me like you do And in searching for acceptance They have given it away Trying To Get The Balance Right Only the children of our children Songwriter: Johnny Duhan Know the price they had to pay

Lyrics: Chorus We don't always live in harmony And often there are times when we are enemies Vanities I fight with you, and you fight with me Songwriter: Noel Brazil Trying to get the balance right. Lyrics: Sometimes we cause each other pain Big bad man's law doesn't carry much sway Sometimes our wills are not the same When you come around here And often we tire of the strain You can still scratch my back Trying to get the balance right. And I can still change sides Don't carry no torch 'til you have it in type Chorus That I'm doing okay It's only one man's outlook Like a circus pair It could be one more lie Hight up in the air Working on their act Look at it closely We need that kind of pact Counterfeit mostly Yesterdays's brushwork Walking around still looks the same Using yesterdays' paint Same people coming and going And everything that I believe It doesn't feel right And every note that you receive See it all now They're just vanities to you It's so far away

Hear that Liverpool wind as I'm making my way I'm finding winter in everything For the very last time I'm finding winter in everything Is this a resurrection? And do you really care? Wheel The Perambulator I can't relish no kiss 'til I happen to hear Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement The Black Family Your honeycomb nouns Let you down so often Lyrics: I'll do the same again Well now we've got the baby And what a babe she is Look at it closely Her eyes are green, she's quite a queen Counterfeit mostly We call her pretty Liz Yesterday's stories And every night when I get home It's the same all over the world Me wife she says to me And everything that I believe Get the perambulator John And every note that you receive And don't go far away They're just vanities to you Chorus Busy little bodies have a story to tell Even if it goes against the grain Wheel the perambulator John Tiny little seeds have got an ocean to swell Wheel it nice and slow But who am I to rock the boat Don't ged riled, mind the child Careful as you go And everything that I believe When you turn the corner John And every note that you receive When you cross the road Just cock your front wheels up a bit Look at it closely Or over goes the load Counterfeit mostly Yesterday's brushwork Last time I took the baby out Using yesterday's pain It was in the pram Look at it closely I turned the bloomin' thing upside-down Counterfeit mostly I don't know where I am Yesterday's stories I cracked the baby's head It's the same all over the world And I took a piece off her nose And now I daren't go home What Does It Matter For fear of my wife Rose Songwriter: David Gray Chorus Lyrics: What does it matter if the sun don't rise The other night when we went out It's midnight forever in my Jimmy's eyes We left the babe behind What should it matter if it comes on to spring I said to me wife When I'm finding winter in everything I think you're very kind But as we were awalkin' along Lived in this cold wind city all of my life We met with Mrs Gray Walking around still looks the same She had the perambulator Same people coming and going And she was goin' our way It doesn't feel right See it all now Chorus From so far away Repeart first verse All of the wisdom that I held so high Shining and useless as this April sky Chorus The hedgerows are singing and it comes on spring But I'm finding winter in everything Who Knows Where The Time Goes Songwriter: Sandy Denny Lived in this cold wind city all of my life Walking around still looks the same Lyrics: Same people coming and going Across the evening sky It doesn't feel right All the birds are leaving See it all now But how can they know From so far away It's time for them to go? Before the winter fire So what should it matter if the earth may slide I will still be dreaming Sky break in pieces or the stars collide I do not count the time The little of sense left in this world or ours For who knows where the time goes? My Jimmy took with him in the wee small hours Who knows where the time goes?

Lived in this cold wind city all of my life Sad deserted shore your fickle friends are leaving Ah, then you know Hello, do I still have your attention? It's time for them to go I forgot to mention thanks again from the captain and But I will still be here the crew I have no thought of leaving And so without the sweet perfume or roses You know I have no thought of time I hope you can still believe it's true For who knows where the time goes? Stripped of all that much ado Who knows where the time goes? Without the fanfare I love you Without the fanfare I love you And I am not alone While my love is near me Wonder Child I know it will be so Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Until it's time to go So come the storms of winter Lyrics: And then the birds in spring again This child he means the world to me, There is no more I do not fear the time enchanted For who knows where the time goes? A child can take this place of ruin, And magically enhance Who knows where the time goes? it.

Wildest Dreams I see him in a golden room, With the book of life before Songwriter: Eileen Laverty him Strange instruments upon his charts, And the crystal Lyrics: glow inside him. I said I'd win the race and you were there to cheer me Thought I'd all the answers but only you would hear me He's your Wonder Child, And my dreams come true Tried to fight the system and you stood by my side You've searched all your life, I see him now flying over Always at the finish line with your arms open wide the universe.

Chorus This child will build a violin, One will follow the traveller's In my wildest dreams, never thought I'd do it love In my wildest dreams Another will the bow apply, To reach the one above. You believed in me, you believed in me Even in my wildest dreams I see her in a golden room, With the moon and stars above her I didn't always feel the rhythm Her simple smile is Heaven's gate, With the Queen of all And some people let me down beside her. But still you kept a steady pace And walked me through the town She's your Wonder Child, And my dreams come true And others cheered and others laughed You've searched all your life, I see her now flying over And I wrestled with my pride the universe. When the world had left me cold You were by my side Your Wonder Child, And my dreams come true You've searched all your life, I see them now flying over Chorus the universe.

Without The Fanfare Your Love Songwriter: Mick Hanly Songwriter: Danny O'Reilly/Mary Black

Lyrics: Lyrics: I know it's the same old song I'm singing But this time these words are just for you How can I say what I feel? That's the only thing that's new When I turn around you're not here I know that I've sung about a million I know it's my time to lead Borrowed lines and phrases from a few But the emptiness inside leaves me weak This one's till as good as new Without the fanfare I love you Chorus So now I see now you've been freed By day I move words around like flowers You'll always be near like you were all those years I deliver by the afternoon And now I breathe the life you gave "Cause the piper calls the tune 'Cause I've learned from the best Today I made full use of the hours And I've always been blessed with your love I explored the smallest avenue And that feeling still came through We gathered round for you last breath Without the fanfare I love you Talked with you while you slept Somehow I know you'll be all right Sure I've lost my way sometimes The perfect end to a perfect life But I've had to pay Sometimes I've gone completely overboard Then in a moment it all becomes so clear Moved a million phrases round, tried to make them leave I want so much to tell you the ground But you're no longer here Still the only line that's soared Bidding all the rest Adieu Chorus Sounding still as good as new Without the fanfare I love you So now I see now you've been freed That you'll always be near like you were all those years And I've always been blessed with your love And now I breathe the life you leave 'Cause I've learned from the best