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A Stones Throw From The Soul Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: Love showed me it's riches late last springTook me to it's breast and gave me wingsI truly did believeAnd still I was deceivedLove made me it's witness one fine spring

Life seemed dark and beautiful at onceAll mixed upside down and back to frontIt was hard to know what's whatThe light went on and offLife was stark and plentiful at once

Maybe time really does heal woundsMaybe love doesn't knowA mere heartbeat from happinessA stone's throw from the soul

Days lived with a willDays as fine as can beDays grace on my morning pillowDays I'm longing to see

Sunlight blows the winter one last kissMe I hold my breath and make my wishWe live through thick and thinWhere evil sometimes winsMe I try my best and think of this

That maybe time really does heal woundsAnd maybe love doesn't knowA mere heartbeat from happinessA stone's throw from the sould

Across The Universe Songwriter: J. Lennon/P. McCarthy Lyrics: Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup,They slither wildly as they slip away across the universePools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,Possessing and caressing me.Jai Guru De Va OmNothing's gonna change my world,Nothing's gonna change my world.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,That call me on and on across the universe,Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box theyTumble blindly as they make their wayAcross the universeJai Guru De Va OmNothing's gonna change my world,Nothing's gonna change my world.

Sounds of laughter shades of love are ringingThrough my open ears [views] inciting and inviting meLimitless undying love which shines around me like aMillion suns, it calls me on and onAcross the universeJai Guru De Va OmNothing's gonna change my world,

Nothing's gonna change my world.

Adam At The Window Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Lyrics: Adam's at the windowStaring at teh apple trees on fireWaiting for the windfallThat brings the smile of kings and their desireDoor blows in behind himA floral pattern summer dress so gayBurning in the sunlightToo late to waitFor darkenss won't delayTo steal her cherry lips awayFor while the coareless tongues of sunlightSlowly trickle downThe curve of hips her fingertipsIn kissing sips we drownIn kissing sips we drown

Chorus:And Adam will have his wayAdam will have his way

Adam's on the islandLiving in the land of loveShadows lurk around himDrunk on the royal jelly of pure loveFull and ripe the fruit hangFor when the prince arrives he will want moreAnd more and more he will drink from the canvas cupThe son of a swan will then loose his plumeraAnd he will wear a new age suitAnd haunt the joints in townAnd play a silver magic fluteAnd call his lovers downAnd call his lovers down

Chorus:And Adam will have his wayAdam will have his wayAdam will have his way

Adam's at the easelPainting in the wrinkles and the greyWaiting for NovemberEasy with the darkness of the daySmiles a tear of gladnessAnd Adams at the window once againBurning in the sunlightToo late to waitFor darkness won't delayTo steal her cherry lips awayFor while the careless tongues of sunlightSlowly trickle downThe curve of hips, her fingertipsIn kissing sips we drownIn kissing sips we drown

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Ae Fond Kiss Songwriter: Traditional Arr. Mary Black (Lyrics by Robert Burns 1759–1796)

Lyrics: Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!Ae farewel, and then, for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee!

Who shall say that Fortune grieves herWhile the star of hope she leaves her? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me.

Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met or never parted,We would ne'er been broken-hearted.

Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest! Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, enjoyment, love, and pleasure!

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! Ae farewel, and then, for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee!Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee!

All That Hammering Songwriter: John Gorka Lyrics: I used to think joy, was the break between sorrow,Like peace was the break between wars,I'm still partly new now, but mostly older,And I can not say I'm so sure.

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I never trusted happiness, as far as I could throw it,Always preparing for the worst, 'cause I would know it,All of that hammering in the dark, like a new Noah working on his ark,On his ark.

I may look back at today and feel foolish,My old view was right all along,I will rush in, where no angels are walking,And fight for the right to be wrong.

CHORUS

'Cause I never trusted happiness, as far as I could throw it,Always preparing for the worst, 'cause I would know it,of that hammering in the dark, like a new Noah working on his ark,On his ark.

Between my potential and the deep blue sea,There's a rock and a diamond either side of me,Between our potential and the break of day,There is nothing at all in our way,Nothing in our way.

Almost Gone Songwriter: David Gray Lyrics: As I'm leaving a change come on my eyesThese streets persuading me with mumbled strange goodbyes

Through the water through the ringTo the soul of everything

Throw my heart out on the stones and I'm almost gone

There's no meaning in clothes and coffee cupsCheap hotel furniture where silence never stops

Through the water through the ringTo the sould of everythingCry my eyes out to the winds and I'm almost gone

Almost gone

And I'm dreaming just staring at the wallsAt cars all frozen now and street light waterfalls

Through the water through the ringTo the soul of everythingThrow my heart out on the stone and I'm almost goneThrough the water through the ringTo the soul of everythingWash my heart out on the stonesAnd I'm almost gone

Almost gone

Amhrán Hiúdaí Phádai Éamoinn Songwriter: Aodh Ó Domhnaill Lyrics: Tá Leac Shéamais sa cheann tráigh go huaigneachÓ d'imigh tú uainne gan cháinNíl anois insa tsruthán ach caoineadhAg éalú go ciúin síos an déanTá na sméara uilig feoite ar an chaorthannNíl cuideachta féin fán lic bháin;Ó tá tocht agus smúid ar do chairde,'S tú sínte ar an mhalaidh faoi chlár.

A Hiúdaí na gcuirlin dubh dualach,Nach trua dúinn anseo in do dheoidhNach dona mar cloíodh do chaoinchorpI gcéin uainn i gcoire Loch AweÓ tháinig do scairt insan oícheBhí corrán an bháis i do chomhair.Ó mo thrua nach dtáinig do tharrtháilAch do chairde ag sileadh na ndeor

Tá do bhean is do chlann do do chaoi-seAgus beidh nó go dté siad faoi chré;Do dhís bheag leanbh 'thug gean duitNach bhfeiceann siad thú lena ré.Tá do mháthair faoi ghruaim is í cráiteAch agraimid uile Mac DéGo bhfuil tusa go hard insna FlaithisI bParthas na naomh faoi réim.

English TranslationLament for hiudái phádaí éamoinn

Leac Shéamais by the shoreline lies lonelySince you we held dear are now goneThere's nothing in the stream now but weepingAs quietly it runs down the strand.On the rowan the berries are witheredThere's no company around the Leac BhánYour friends are both stricken and silentFor under boards you'll lie stretched from now on

O hiudai with hair black and curlingDesolation came over us allWhen we heard how your body was brokenFar away in the glen of Loch AweYour call it came in the night timeWhen the sickle of death cut you downMy heart's pity that help never reached you

and your friends were left here to mourn.

Your wife and your family lament youAs they will till they go to the graveYour two small children who loved youWho never will see you again.Your mother's tormented with sorrowBut to God's Son all of us prayThat you are now above us in HeavenIn Paradise with the saints. Anachie Gordon Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement Mary Black Lyrics: Harking is bonnieAnd there lives my loveMy heart lies on himAnd will not removeIt will not removeOh for all that I have doneOh I never will forget my love Anachie

For Anachie GordonHe's bonnie and he's roughHe'd entice any woman that ever he sawHe'd entice any woman and so he has done meOh I never will forget my love Anachie

Down came her father and he's standing by the doorSaying Jeannie you're trying the tricks of a whoreYou care nothing for a man who cares so very much for theeYou must marry Lord Sulton and leave AnachieFor Anachie Gorden, he's barely but a manAlthough he may be pretty but where are his lands?Oh the Sulton's lands are broad and his towers they run highYou must marry Lord Sulton and leave Anachie

With Anachie Gordon I'd beg for my breadAnd before I'll marry Sulton it's gold to my headWith gold to my head and gowns fringed to the kneeAnd I'll die if I don't get me love AnachieAnd you that are my parents to Church you may me bringBut unto Lord Sulton I'll never bear a songTo a son or a daughter, I'll never bow my kneeAnd I'll die if I don't get me love Anachie

Jeannie was married and from church she was brought homeAnd when she and her maidens so merry should have beenWhen she and her maidens so merry should have beenShe went into her chambers she cried all alone

Come to bed now Jeannie me honey and my sweetFor to style you my mistress it would be so sweetBe it mistress or Jeannie it's all the same to meBut in your bed Lord Sulton I never will lieAnd down came her father and he's spoken with reknownSaying you that are her maidens go loosen off her gownsBut she fell down to the floor so close down by his kneeSaying father look I'm dying for me love Anachie

The day that Jeannie married was the day that Jeannie diedAnd the day that yound Anachie came home on the tideAnd down came her maidens all wringing of their handsSaying oh it's been so long you've spent so long on the sandsOh so long on the sands, so long on the floodThey have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead

You that are her maidens go take me by the handAnd take me to the chamber that me love she lies inAnd he's kissed her cold lips till his heart has turned to stoneAnd he's died in the chamber that his love she lies in Another Day Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Lyrics: Hey little brother the winds of the worldHave ruffled your soft and weakened wingsAnd though I can't hold you as I look into your eyesI can see the film that disappointment bringsI know it's rained upon your childhood dreamsThe games you've been playingWeren't quite what they seemedHow can I tell you don't bang your head against the wallThe wall I've been banging and praying might fall

Your time will come on another dayAnd your dreams will flame and in the fire playOn another day

I know it's hard for you to understandThere are no flying angels come to lend a handNo smiling faces lined for you to meetIt looks like that in twisted glassFrom the kind side of the street

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Repeat 1st verse

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As I Leave Behind Neidin Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Lyrics: As I leave behind NéidínIt's like purple splashed on greenMy soul is strangely fedThrough the winding hills aheadAnd she plays a melodyOn wind and streams for me

Chorus

Won't you rememberWon't you rememberWon't you remember meWon't you rememberWon't you rememberWon't you remember me

And we wind and climb and fallLike the greatest waltz of allFloat across the floorHer sweet breath outside the doorAnd it's time that I was goneCross the silver tear

Chorus

As I leave behind NéidínIn the hall where we have beenRhododendrons in her hairIn the mountain scented airI still feel her spirit songCross the silver tear

Chorus

Babes In The Woods Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: Babes in the wood walking thru' snowBig bad wolf at the windowNot much choice in the matter nowSome must lead some must follow

Touch can mean distance to some peopleTouch can mean prison or be like a cageI always thought that life could be more simpleSpecially in this day and age

Chorus

They got the time they got the needThe world's getting weird the wolf's running freeBut that's another story this their story

Babes in the wood eager and keenSoft as the fern underneath themWet to the skin from their own hot glowNo more wolf at the window

Touch can mean distance to some peopleTouch can mean I own you forever and a dayIf only life could be more simpleSpecially in this day and age

Chorus

But touch can be a blessing to other peopleTouch can bring blossom to things that decayI think life should be that simpleSpecially in this day and age

Chorus...

Bantry Girl's Lament Traditional Lyrics: Oh, Who will plough the fields now or who will sow the corn?Who will mind the sheep now and keep them neatly shorn?The stack that's in the haggard, unthrashed it may remainSince Johnny's went a-thrashing the dirty king of Spain The girls from the bawnogue in sorrow may retireAnd the piper and his bellows go home and blow the fireSince Johnny, lovely Johnny is sailing o'er the mainAlong with other patriots to fight the King of Spain

The boys will surely miss him when Moneymore comes roundAnd they'll find that their bold captain is nowhere to be foundAnd the peelers must stand idle, all against their will and mainSince the gallant boys who gave them work now peels the King of Spain

At wakes or hurling matches your like we'll never seeTill you come back to us again a stor gra geal mo chroiAnd won't you thrash the buckeens that show us much disdainBecause our eyes are not so bright as those you'll meet in Spain

If cruel fate will not permit our Johnny to return

His heavy loss we Bantry girls will never cease to mournWe'll resign ourselves to our sad lot and die in grief and painSince Johnny died for Ireland's pride in the foreign land of Spain

Beautiful Songwriter: Amy Kanter Lyrics: Long long before I put a face on loveThe one thing I knew was thatLike anything love can surprise youOne kiss and you brought me a lifetimeDo you know what that means to meYou give me the answer to whether I bleedDeep in the darkest night oh, I wake youTo tell you I know that life is so beautiful with you

And time will tellWhat hurt and what I feltThis open roadIs long and beautiful

For every minute you need me I want to need youIn every fear life is brand newDeep in the darkest night oh, I wake youAnd tell you I know that life is so beautiful with you

And time will tellWhat hurt and what I feltThis open roadIs long and beautiful

And time will tellWhat hurt and what I feltThis open roadIs long and beautiful

And time will tellWhat hurt and what I feltThis open roadIs long and beautiful

And time will tell

Big Trip To Portland Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: The day won't open it's eyesThe heavens above must be sickI'm stood at the windows since fiveAll decked out for the trip

Hey Hey I'm dying to meet with youHey Hey I'm living to speak with youHey Hey I'm waiting to meet you babyHey Hey Hey

Chorus

Big trip to PortlandNo more cooling my heelsBig trip to PortlandMy soul shall be healed

The master's out of my reachHe wanders around in the rainToday is all that I seekToday when I hold you againHey Hey

Chorus

I take the prize I win the dayYou say you love me all the wayI kill the pain that drags you downYou take us on from town to town

The sun's burning all thru' the dayIt's doing the best it can doI came with my bucket and spadeI came with the same things as you

Chorus Big trip to PortlandNo more cooling my heelsBig trip to PortlandMy soul shall be healed

Bless The Road Songwriter: Steve Cooney Lyrics: Remember when we walked on hills of heatherSinging weaving mystical ringsNow in a while my precious childYou wil unfurl your wingsAnd I'll have lost what I believedHad promised everythingBut before you go my friend, my kind companionListen to this song I sing

Then go in peace and grow in grace and goodnessKnow that you have nothing to fearAnd dry your eyes my little oneAnd let there be no tearsSend me a dream from away beyondI promise I shall hearOh beautifull beloved soul companionThank you for those beautifull years

And heaven hold and watch your way foreverMay your every dream com trueForgive all wrong, always be strongAnd do what you must doYou stand before this open doorAnd you must now go throughMy precious friend, my own my sweet companionBless the road that carries youMy precious friend, myu own my sweet companionBless the road that carries you

Both Sides The Tweed Songwriter: Dick Gaughan Lyrics: What's the spring-breathing jasmine and rose ?What's the summer with all its gay trainOr the splendour of autumn to thoseWho've bartered their freedom for gain? Let the love of our land's sacred rightsTo the love of our people succeedLet friendship and honour uniteAnd flourish on both sides the Tweed.

No sweetness the senses can cheerWhich corruption and bribery bindNo brightness that gloom can e'er clearFor honour's the sum of the mind

Let virtue distinguish the bravePlace riches in lowest degreeThink them poorest who can be a slaveThem richest who dare to be free

Bramble And The Rose

Songwriter: Barbara Keith. Arrangement The Black Family Lyrics: We have been so close togetherEach a candle and each a flameAll the dangers were outside usAnd we knew them all by name

Chorus

See how the bramble and the rose intertwineLove grows like the bramble and the roseOften cruel and often kind

Now it hurts you and it hurts meJust to see what we can doGive ourselves unto each otherWithout ever meaning to

Chorus

Throw your loving arms around meAnd sing for me a true love songAnd the words sung togetherI could sing them all night long

Chorus

See how the bramble and the rose intertwineLove grows like the bramble and the rose'Round each other we will wind

Brand New StarSongwriter: Kieran Gross

Lyrics:

Every now and then you like to take it easySit right back and view the situationThe future is brighterSoon we'll be riding on the crest of a wave

Chorus

Goodbye to all your troublesChange of heart the world will start todayIt's a new beginningSee it shining like a brand new star

Well if you're thinkin' that you'll end up cryingMaybe all you need is to get away from friendsAnd the walls around youFind a shore step into the sun

Chorus

I won't be a burden upon your shoulderI will give you wings so you can flyTo lands where you're dreams surround youFind a shore step into the sun

Chorus...

Bright Blue RoseSongwriter: Jimmy McCarthy

Lyrics:

I skimmed across black water, without once submergingOnto the banks of an urban morningThat hungers the first light, much much moreThan mountains ever do.And she like a ghost beside me, goes down with the ease

of a dolphinAnd emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmedFor she is the perfect creature, natural in every featureAnd I am the geek with the alchemists' stone

Chorus

For all of you who must discover,For all who seek to understand,For having left the path of othersYou find a very special hand

And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious timeAnd it is the only wayForget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goesTo ponder his death and his life eternally

Chorus

For all of you who must discoverFor all who seek to understand,For having left the path of othersYou find a very special hand

And it is a holy thingAnd it is the only wayForget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goesTo ponder his death and his life eternally

One bright blue rose outlives all thoseTwo thousand years and still it goesTo ponder his death and his life eternally

Broken WingsSongwriter: Dougie McLean

Lyrics:

A tall tree turn and face the westOh we're running with the windA high clifftop we're waiting with the restFor this journey to begin

Chorus

But these broken wings won't flyThese broken wings won't flyThese broken wings won't fly at all

And Oh how we laugh but maybe we should crawlAnd ask to be excusedWe shout loudly, have answers to it allOh but we have been refused

Chorus

Girl childYou're dancing with the streamGrowing with the silver treesYour young questionsYou ask me what it meansOh but I am not at ease

Chorus

By The HourSongwriter: Larry Klein - David Batteau

Lyrics:

I was broken by the powerI was swallowed by the need

I was hiding in the cornerWhen a voice called to meHe understood my mysteryHealed the wounds of my despairAnd with his grace he tenderlyBrushed the tangles from my hair

I'm feeling better by the hourI think I just might be o.k.Though bridges burn and ashes showerThink I can live with what remains

As I sorted through the wreckageSitting in my silent fastOn my bed of hard earned ashesStill repenting for my pastMy body ached and shook with angerAs I walked through narrow gatesAns I left those walls behind meAnd with them my mistakes

I'm feeling better by the hourI think I just might be o.k.Though bridges burn and ashes showerThink I can live with what remains

By The Time It Gets DarkSongwriter: Sandy Denny

Lyrics:

Baby every cloud has a silver liningBaby every dog really has his dayAnd it matters to me to see you smilingWhy don't you blow all your cares awayYesterday is gone and will be forgottenAnd today is where every new day startsGot to be free as the leaves in the autumnYou may be sad but it will never last.

ChorusMabye by the evening we'll be laughingJust wait and see all the changes there'll beBy the time it gets dark

Carolina RuaSongwriter: Tom Moore

Lyrics:

Stories never end 'til you come to conclusions:Carolina ruadh has a hand in my confusion.Waits for me to choose which quarter to bend in.To Susie-Make-Me-Blue, or the redhead I'm attending.

Oh Carolina ruadh has my heart and all I want to do'sGo down the windy road where my Carolina goes:Down the crooked road where Carolina goes to schoolMo Charolina ruadh, do you love me?Tell me true, tell me......Standing on three queens, thought the game was over.Then, from the blue, Carolina's at my shoulder:Laughter in her eyes and a smileThat touches all the guys

On down the crooked road where Carolina goes to school--Mo Charolina ruadh, do you love me?Tell me true, tell me..

ColcannonTrad. Arrangement The Black Family

Lyrics:

Well did you ever make colcannon,made with lovely pickled creamWith the greens & scallions mingledlike a pitcher in a dreamDid you ever make a hole on topto hold the meltin' flakeOr the creamy flavoured butterthat our mother's used to make

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Oh you did, so you didso did he and so did IAnd the more I think about itsure the nearer I'm to cryOh weren't them the happy dayswhen troubles we knew notAnd or mother made colcannonin the little skillet pot

Well, did you ever take potatoe cakeand boxty to the schoolTucked underneath your oxter withyour books, your slate and ruleAnd when teacher wasn't looking'sure a great big bite you'd takeOf the creamy flavoured soft and meltin'sweet potatoe cake

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Well did you ever go a courtin' boyswhen the evenin' sun went downAnd the moon began a peepin'from behind the Hill O' DownAnd you wandered down the boreenwhere the clúrachán was seenAnd you whispered lovin' praises toyour own dear sweet cáilín

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ColumbusSongwriter: Noel Brazil

Lyrics:

Better keep your distance from this whaleBetter keep your boat from going astrayFind yourself a partner and treat them wellTry to give them shelter night and day'Cause here in this blue lightFar away from the firesideThings can get twisted and crazy and crowdedYou can't even feel right

So you dream of ColumbusEver time the panic startsYou dream of ColumbusWith your maps and your beautiful chartsYou dream of ColumbusWith an ache in your travelling heart

See how the cormorant swoops and divesMust be some thrill to go that deepDown to the basement of this lifeDown to where the mermaid gently sleepsNot like here in this blue lightFar away from the firesideWhere things can get twisted and haunted and crowdedYou can't even feel alright

Chorus

And as tide must ebb and flowI am dragged down underAnd I wait the livelong dayFor an end to my hunger

So I dream of ColumbusEvery time that the panic startsI dream of ColumbusWith my maps and my beautiful chartsI dream of ColumbusAnd there's peace in a traveling heartI dream of Columbus

Crazy Man MichaelSongwriter: Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick

Lyrics:

Within the fire and out upon the seaCrazy man Michael was walkingHe met with a raven with eyes black as coalsAnd shortly they were a-talkingYour future, your future I would tell to youYour future you often have asked meYour true love will die by your own right handAnd crazy man Michael will cursèd be Michael he ranted and Michael he ravedAnd beat up the four winds with his fists oHe laughed and he cried, he shouted and he sworeFor his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss oYou speak with an evil, you speak with a hateYou speak for the devil that haunts meFor is she not the fairest in all the broad landYour sorcerer¹s words are to taunt me

He took out his dagger of fire and of steelAnd struck down the raven through the heart oThe bird fluttered long and the sky it did spinAnd the cold earth did wonder and startleO where is the raven that I struck down deadAnd here did lie on the ground oI see that my true love with a wound so redWhere her lover¹s heart it did pound o

Crazy man Michael he wanders and callsAnd talks to the night and the day oBut his eyes they are sane and his speech it is plainAnd he longs to be far away oMichael he whistles the simplest of tunesAnd asks of the wild wolves their pardonFor his true love is flown into every flower grownAnd he must be keeper of the garden

CrusaderSongwriter: Mick Hanly

Lyrics:

There's a wildernessIt's a no man's landBetween Alice Springs and the oceanSeventeen hundred miles of burning sandAnd a silken thread keeps a hold on youWhen the emptieness like a potion tends to fray your reason strand by

strandAnd there's no more need for the mask your wearWhen the last goodbyes have been saidSo kiss the cheeks of you dearest friendsAnd turn to the desert aheadNow you're on your own like a sailing shipYou're the captain, crew and sailorsTurn around and this is what you see

Chorus

This me facing me all alone'Cause I choose to be with the wind and the sun on me only me

Now you dream so much about being lostYour ghost by a coolebah sleepingHaunts you and whispers in your earGive up give up this lonely roadNo one knows the promise you're keepingYou can't touch the emptiness out hereBut the grace that mends this broken wingThe blue sky to regainWill lift those feet and raise those eyesTo face the desert againAs the dawn reveals the journey's endIn truth it's only beginningAnd it's as big as your eyes wish to see

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Cut By WireSongwriter: Geoff Bartley & John Gorka

Lyrics:

The letter stopped in a minor keyA Christmas card that you drew for meDone by the hand that I knew so wellDisguised the message that you could not tell

I see you bent above your potter's wheelThe piece you've throwing is the piece you feelThe softest colour and an eye so trueFor cups and bowls that are shaped like you

Chorus You work in porcelain cut by wireNow as ever lovers walk through fireWhen we were breaking we made no soundThe pieces almost touching on the ground

And now your silence says there's someone thereShe stands behind you as she strokes your hairHow does she hold you like a long lost friendOr are you like me on your own again

And so I write you in a minor keyWondering if there's something left for meI'm only writing so that I can sleepI never found another love as deep

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Diamond DaysSongwriter: Jimmy McCarthy

Lyrics:

I have written this songFor you to take with youWhen you go awaySomething to sing and slowly swing toOn your colder daysI have made a startWith a verse and a ChorusThe rest I leave to youAnd when next I see your smiling faceWe might sing it right through

Chorus

I'll be your sweetheart alwaysAnd I'll love the memories of the Diamond DaysI'll keep a candle burning'Till we sing again the Diamond Days

If the words don't rhymeThen I will forgive youThat won't be the crimeBut the staring spaceUpon the pageThat might look like mineI have made a startWith a verse and a ChorusThe rest I'll leave to youAnd when next I see your smiling faceWe might sing it right through

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DocklandSongwriter: Noel Brazil

Lyrics:

Late glow on an early winter evening in Docklandwith my ship of dreams moving easily across the soundReminiscence is weighting me down with a vengeancetide water so deep I think I'm going to drown

But in the wink of an eye I am rising above the afflictionIn the wink of an eye I am come back in from the coldI don't even have to try and I'm gone out of here without noticegone out of Dockland without a care in the world

It didn't hit me when I met you coming out of the shamblesIt didn't hit me when you took me to the summer fieldI didn't flinch when you told me that you'd get what you wantedI never had what it takes to have a heart of steel

But in the wink of an eye I am rising above the afflictionin the wink of an eye I am come back in from the coldI didn't even have to try and I'm gone out of here without noticeI'm gone out Dockland without a care in the worldgone out of Dockland

And yes I loved you the time that is wasand yes you may rip me whenever you want

So it goes on a crystal clear morning in Docklandand heaven knows if I'll ever live to love againStruck down by the kiss of an angel in limbolaid low by the act of the going

But in the wink of an eye I am rising above the afflictionin the wink of an eye I am come back in from the coldI didn't even have to try and I'm gone out of here without noticegone out of Dockland without a care in the worldI'm gone out of Dockland without a care in world

Donegal BreezeSongwriter: Kevin Doherty

Lyrics:

CHORUS With your dark hair in the Donegal breeze,Bringing me softly and sweetly to the ground,But, there's madness in the sycamore trees,And there's no salvation to be found.

Right now the only thing that my mind ever holds,Are long dark silences or screaming that explodes,Burning rocking beds with visions of a land,Long dark tunnels, questions and calm,But, with you, you know I have no doubts,And fear will have no sting,With your brilliant eyes and your lost and broken wing,My head upon your shoulder as you take me in your arms,Continents will crumble, we will find no harm.

CHORUS

With your dark hair in the Donegal breeze,Bringing me softly and sweetly to the ground,But, there's madness in the sycamore trees,And there's no salvation to be found.

Well I'll brace myself against the dark, endeavour to go on,No matter how long it takes, and even though I might be wrong,And I will ask a little favour of whatever God I find,And I will come back for you darling, when I find some peace of mind.

Well I don't know about tomorrow, it will be here and gone,I don't know about tonight, it'll be too long,Sometimes I think I'm dying, and I don't care how,All I know is that I want you, and I want you here and now.

CHORUS

With your dark hair in the Donegal breeze,Bringing me softly and sweetly to the ground,But, there's madness in the sycamore trees,And there's no salvation to be found.

Don't ExplainSongwriter: Billy Holiday/Herzog

Lyrics:

Hush now, don't explainJust say you'll remainI'm glad your back, don't explain Quiet, don't explainWhat is there to gainSkip that lipstickDon't explain

You know that I love youAnd what enduresAll my thoughts of youFor I'm so completely yours

Cry to hear folks chatterAnd I know you cheatRight or wrong, don't matterWhen you're with me, sweet

Hush now, don't explainYou're my joy and painMy life's yours loveDon't explain

Don't Let Me Come a StrangerSongwriter: Robin and Linda Williams / Jerome Clark

Lyrics:

As I walked out one eveningTo breathe the air and sooth my mindI thought of friends and the home I hadAnd all those things I left behind oh...

A silent star shone on meMy eyes saw the far horizonAs if to pierce this veil of timeAnd escape this earthly prison oh...

ChorusWill there come a time when the memories fadeAnd pass on with the long, long years?When the ties no longer bindLord save me from this darkest fearDon't let me come home a strangerI couldn't stand to be a stranger

In this place so far from homeThey know my name but they don't know meThey hear my voice; they see my faceBut they can't lay no claim on me oh...

Chorus

As I walk this universeI free my mind of time and spaceI wander through the galaxyBut never do I find my place oh...

Chorus

Don't Say OkaySongwriter: Shane Howard

Lyrics:

I'm giving up on TV it's not making senseGotta trust ourselves it's the last line of defenceSpinning into space running out of timeGathering together all the useful things we find

Chorus

So don't say okay and be half-heartedI'm afraid that this feeling goes on

Sacrifice the world face a killing sunYou gotta get it all together it'll bring us all undoneWe're running up hills that we already climbedOver the top and falling down the other side

Chorus

The ghosts are at the window they're again tonightLooking in on us so we have got to get it rightWe've walking on their bones everywhere we goSpirits in the wind and the memories in the stones

Chorus

How we gonna get the healing done?

Ellis IslandSongwriter: Noel Brazil

Lyrics:

From the corner of my eye I see a tear rolling downAt the time I couldn't tell whose tear it wasIf it was mine I should be gladThat I still function in this cageBut if it's yours it only makes me more lostTo see a tear rolling down

To see a tear rolling down

This is the last call for Ellis IslandThese are the last words I'm ever gonna hear you saySo goodbye, babeGoodbye, babe.

I hear sweethearts whisper their undying loveAbove the noise on the quay their voices riseThey must have something so strong in the face of such changeThat they can promise and promise all nightOh, their undying love, hear their undying love

This is the last call for Ellis IslandThese are the last words I'm ever gonna hear you say

So goodbye, babeGoodbye, babe.

Oh, what you wouldn't give to be down on the pier once againFar away from the cries of this war-weary hordeTime up there in the clouds must be hard to endureWhen your heart's unsure

It's like a knife in my gut knowing you're taking leaveI feel I'm sentenced to a death without appealI can pretend it's all a dreamAnd what I'm seeing will disappearBut the end I can see is all too realKnowing you're taking leaveKnowing you're taking leave

This is the last call for Ellis IslandThese are the last words I'm ever gonna hear you saySo goodbye, babeGoodbye, babeFall at your feetSongwriter: Finn

Lyrics:

I'm really close tonightI feel like I'm moving inside himLying in the darkI think that I'm beginning to know himLet it goI'll be there when you call

Chorus

And whenever I fall at your feetWon't you let your tears rain down one meWhenever I touch your slow turning pain

Don't hide it from me nowThere's something in the way that you're talkingWords don't sound rightI hear them all moving inside youYou know - I'll be waiting when you call

Chorus

The finger of blame has turning upon itselfAnd I'm more than willing to offer myselfDo you want my presence or need my help?Who knows where that might leadI fall, I fall

Chorus

Fare Thee Well My Own True LoveTraditional

Lyrics:

Fare thee wellMy own true loveFarewell for a whileI'm going awayBut I'll returnIf I go 10,000 miles

10,000 milesMy own true love10,000 miles or moreAnd the rocks may meltAnd the seas may burnIf I no more return

And you seeYon lonesome doveSitting on an ivy treeShe's weeping forHer own true loveAs I will weep for mine

Oh come backMy own true loveStay a while with meFor if I had a friendAll on this earthThen you'll be a friend to me, my dear

Oh come backMy own true loveStay a while with meFor if I had a friendAll on this earth

Then you'll be that friend to me, my dearYou'll be that friend to meThen you'll be that friend to me, my dearYou'll be that friend to me

Farewell FarewellSongwriter: Richard Thompson

Lyrics: Farewell, farewell to you who would hearYou lonely travellers allThe cold north winds will blow againThe winding road does call.

And will you never return to seeYour bruised and beaten sonsO I would, I would if welcome I wereFor they loathe me every one.

And will you never cut the clothNor drink the light to beAnd can you never swear a yearTo anyone but he.

No I will never cut the clothNor drink the light to beBut I'll swear a year to he who liesAsleep alongside of me.

Repeat First Verse

Fat Valley Of PainSongwriter: Noel Brazil

Lyrics:

It was one of those daysWhen to shine was of no valueOne of those daysWhen the language had no graceWe were miles apartAnd I stood there with my head spinningJust another poor soulTrying hard not to lose faith

We had it engravedWe had the key to a unionBut you wanted moreSo we both kept on losing

Fat valley of painFat valley of pain insideAnd this pain will not end'Cause loving you is what I was made for

You were like one of those rainbowsWe glimpse for a few secondsOne of those dreamsThat could last for a life longNow I'm quizzing myselfAnd it's always the same questionIs it wrong to believeWhen the feeling so so strong?

We had engravedWe had the key to a unionBut you wanted moreSo we both kept on losing

It's an ill-kept secretThat something here's going wrongOh but my helpless feelingsThey keep on leading me on

Fat valley of painFat valley of pain insideAnd this pain will not end'Cause loving you is what I was made forFat valley of pain

Fields Of GoldSongwriter: Sting

Lyrics:

You'll remember me when the west winds moveUpon the fields of BarleyYou'll can tell the sun in his jealous skyAs you walk in fields of gold

So she took her loveFor to gaze awhileUpon the fields of BarleyIn his arms she fell as her hair came downAmong the fields of gold

Will you stay with me will you be my loveAmong the fields of BarleyYou'll can tell the sun in his jealous skyAs you lie in fields of gold

I never made a promise lightlyAnd there have been some that I've brokenBut I swear in the days still leftWe'll walk in fields of goldWe'll walk in fields of gold

I never made a promise lightlyAnd there have been some that I've brokenBut I swear in the days still left

We'll walk in fields of goldWe'll walk in fields of gold

Many years have passed since those summer daysAmong the fields or BarleySee the children run as the sun goes downAmong the fields of gold

You'll remember me when the west wind movesAmong the fields of BarleyYou can tell the sun in his jealous skyWhen we walked in fields of goldWhen we walked in fields of goldWhen we walked in fields of gold

Flesh and BloodSongwriter: Shane Howard

Lyrics:

If we leave here todaywe could be a thousand miles awayTake to that road see how far it goesAnd on that great ocean roadOh the country's in our bonesAll the trouble that you knowempties out as you go

Chorus:

Oh come on walk with me, talk with me,tell me your storiesI'll do my best to understand youYou're flesh and blood, flesh and bloodDon't refuse me your loveMore than words can expressMore than wealth or successOh there's a thousand things to doSo let's start here with me and youAll the pain that you feelAll the hurt that seems so real

Oh come on walk with me, talk with me,tell me your storiesI'll do my very best to understand youYou're flesh and bloodYou can't go on holding backthe flooding riverKeeping all that fear insideI understand how trouble haunts youYes and I do know how you feel

There's a thousand things to doSo let's start here with me and youGonna take a little timeLet's see what we can findOh come on walk with me.........

Forever YoungSongwriter: Bob Dylan

Lyrics:

May God bless and keep you always,May your wishes all come true,May you always do for othersAnd let others do for you.May you build a ladder to the starsAnd climb on every rung,May you stay forever young,Forever young, forever young,May you stay forever young. May you grow up to be righteous,May you grow up to be true,

May you always know the truthAnd see the lights surrounding you.May you always be courageous,Stand upright and be strong,May you stay forever young,Forever young, forever young,May you stay forever young.

May your hands always be busy,May your feet always be swift,May you have a strong foundationWhen the winds of changes shift.May your heart always be joyful,May your song always be sung,May you stay forever young,Forever young, forever young,May you stay forever young.

Free as a StoneSongwriter: Shane Howard

Lyrics:

Phone calls and taxi-ridesAnd somebody's leavingMisunderstandings get out of controlAnd the right words get leftAnd the wrong words get spokenHe's gone but not your pride

Chorus

Not much can helpThe full heart that's breakingCan't find the wordsAnd you can't hide the feelingsAnd it's down to the boneTo the heart of the matterYou're free free as stone

Look at you nowYou're the picture of sorrowHead in your handsLike a scene from a movieAnd all of the thingsThat seemed so importantAre leaves and are blowing away

Chorus

Nothing can helpThe full heart that's breakingYou can't find the wordsAnd you can't hide the feelingsAnd it's down to the boneTo the heart of the matterYou're free free as stone

Walk through this townOn a cold Sunday morningSoldiers in uniformsGuns in their handsThe world all caught upWith barbed wire fencesI'm free I'm free as stone

Chorus

Oh nothing can helpThe full heart that's breakingWon't find the wordsAnd you can't hide the feelingsAnd it's down to boneTo the heart of the matter

You're free free as stoneYou're free free as stone

Full MoonSongwriter: Sandy Denny

Lyrics:

Everybody else has goneBut you're still here with meAll the world is sleeping by and byThrough the windowpaneThe frosted light is streaming inFull moon sailing high across the skyTonight is like the night when we first metI always knew I never would forget you

Come and hold me closeI miss you more than I can sayI can't imagine how I pass the timeWondering if you'll ever knowHow much you mean to meI never dreamed there'd be a change of mindOh lover, this is where I want to stayMaybe it could always be this way

Gentle music, rock away the sadnesses in meRock away my lonely yesterdays

I recall you said to me a long, long time ago"Don't you lose direction in the crowd, I think you could"But when I did you found me and I didn't even knowHardly even knew you were around, and understoodI was reaching out each moment to be freeYou were all those things I'd never be

Gentle music, rock away the sadnesses in meRock away my lonely yesterdays

Like pennies on the ocean'Til no trace of them I see'Til moonlight shows no ripples on the waves

And then the clear reflection will remainPerhaps the same reflection of that same full moon

Full moon, full moon, full moon...

GabrielSongwriter: Shane Howard

Lyrics:

Chorus

Gabriel GabrielOpen you heart and mine as wellOh Gabriel GabrielSave this heart from hell

Heaven knows I love youAnd heaven knows how trueI'd be for you

People have their failingsAnd I know that I've got mineI know I've been ungratefulI know I've been unkind

Chorus

Gabriel GabrielOpen you heart and mine as wellOh come on Gabriel Gabriel

Save this heart from hell

Down into the valleysAnd out across the seaOur dreams goCaught up in a lovingSo much stronger than we knewThat could tear our world apartOr with some fate just pull us through

Chorus

Gabriel oh GabrielOpen you heart and mine as wellGabriel GabrielSave this heart from hell

Time will wait for no oneAnd time will take it's tollAnd we'll grow oldWeary from the fightingWorn out from a warWhere no one can surrenderOr wants to fight anymore

Chorus

Gabriel GabrielOpen you heart and mine as wellGabriel GabrielSave this heart from hell

Gabriel GabrielOpen you heart and mine as wellOh Gabriel GabrielThis heart's in hell

Repeat

God Bless The ChildSongwriter: A. Herzog Jr/Billie Holiday

Lyrics:

Them that's got shall getThem that's not shall loseSo the Bible said but it still is newsMama may have, Papa may haveBut God bless the child that's got his ownThat's got his own Rich relations giveCrust of bread and suchYou can help yourselfBut don't take too muchMama may have, Papa may haveBut God bless the child that's got his ownThat's got his own

Money, you've got lots of friendsCrowding round the doorWhen you're gone, spending endsThey don't come no moreYes, the strong gets moreWhile the weak ones fadeEmpty pockets don't ever make the gradeMama may have, Papa may haveBut God bless the child that's got his ownThat's got his own

Money, you've got lots of friendsCrowding round the doorMoney's gone, and spending endsThey don't come no more

Mama may have, Papa may haveBut God bless the child that's got his ownThat's got his ownBut God bless the child that's got his ownThat's got his own

Going GoneSongwriter: Alger, Dale & Koller

Lyrics:

There is a lighthouse in the harbourGiving guidance with its lightBut I have no one to turn toAs I wander through lifeFrom the first time that I saw youStanding silent by the shoreI know my search was overand I would look for love no more

Chorus

Deep in the waters of love I am fallingSinking like a stoneDeep in my heart I can hear love callingGoing once, going twice going gone

There is a ship on the horizonMaking its way against the windand from the place where I stand watchingI swear my ship is coming in

Chorus

Golden MileSongwriter: Noel Brazil

Lyrics:

I'm walkin' along golden mile with a soldier's twirlI must be the luckiest soul in the whole wide worldO foolish thing here I go again

There's no faith more innocent than blind faithAnd that's all I've gotSo I'm scaling the walls of my dreamsReady or notO foolish thing here I go again

Chorus

Don't be afraid darling no need to be afraid darlingYou don't have to be afraid from now onIt's just the way darling we get delayed darlingBut we won't be delayed from now on

I know no power on earth nor up aboveThat would alter the way things areYou are my loveYou're my pride and joy on the golden mile

If only it could be captured how I feel for youAnd if I could just freeze it I feel I'd never be untrueO foolish thing here I go again

Chorus.

Golden ThreadSongwriter: Thom Moore

Lyrics:

I looked into a mirror made of linesWith tiny symbols here and there to make the image

mineA woman stood and painted, and showed me what to findThe different parts, the fire, the air,and where my life would climb:and where it joins another, and what would always bind:

Chorus:

It's a golden thread to hold you all of my days,Hold my head against you, now and for always,Sewn me up, shown us a long, long time;Makes you my life, makes you my life.

The moving finger writes and goes away;I'm weighed upon a balance hereand I'm told that I can stayThe kettle heats, the water speaks up, says I'm not alone;My whole life is a tapestry, and hanging in my home.And here it joins another, by what will always bind:

Chorus

An when you looked your angel flew awayAnd what it meant was your protection's gone another dayAnd what has come to change you, and have you come what mayIs fashioned by an old triangle, green as April haze,And blue is just a colour, but blue is here to stay.

Chorus (2)

Goodmorning HeartacheSongwriter: Higginbotham/Drake/Fisher

Lyrics:

Good morning heartacheYou old gloomy sightGood morning heartacheThought we said goodbye last nightI turned and tossed until it seems you heve goneBut here you are with the dawnWish I forget you, but you're here to stayIt seems I met youWhen my love went awayNow everyday I stop I'm saying to youGood morning heartache what's new Stop haunting me nowCan't shake you nohowJust leave me aloneI've got those Monday bluesStraight to Sunday bluesGood morning heartacheHere we go againGood morning heartacheYou're the oneWho knows me wellMight as well get use to you hanging aroundGood morning heartacheSit down

Greatest DreamSongwriter: Donagh Long

Lyrics:ISeems like the morning lights hereafterCan weigh much more than you can holdSomehow tomorrow's lines and laughterCan turn around and look so cold

II

And you can hang your head in sorrowThe restless nights when troubles comeAnd stand alone and face tomorrowAnd know not why but what has been undone

Chorus

How you gonna hold on to that greatest dream of all?How you gonna hold on when you need to fall?

IIII know it breaks your heart to wonderWhat it was he'd ever said or doneThere'll be no sleep amongst the thunderThere'll be silence but no peace after he's gone

Chorus & repeat III

Hard TimesSongwriter: Stephen Foster

Lyrics:

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tearsWhile we all sup sorrow with the poorThere's a song that will linger forever in our earsOh Hard times come again no more. ChorusTis the song, the sigh of the weary,Hard times, hard times, come again no moreMany days you have lingered around my cabin doorOh hard times come again no more.

While we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and gayThere are frail forms fainting at the doorThough their voices are silent, their pleading looks will sayOh hard times come again no more.

Chorus

Hó Ró m'Iníon Donn Bhóidheach Songwriter: Traditional Arrangement Frances Black

CurfáHó ró m'iníon donn bhóidheachHó ró m'iníon donn bhóidheach'S a chailín lách bhóidheachNí phósfainn ach thú

A Pheigí dhonn na mbláthshúlIs trom a thug mé grá duitTá d'éadan aoibhinn álainnDe ghrnáth os comhair do shúl

Curfá

Ní cheilfead ar an saol soGo bhfuil mé i ngrá go tréan leat;'S cé d'ímíos uait go scléipeachNíor thréigeas mo rún

Curfá

Ach nuair a thiocfadh an samhradhRachad féin 'dtí'n gleann údIs tabharfadsa, dar Donn, liomM'ansacht is mo rún

English Translation:My Pretty Brown-Haired lass

Chorus

Hó ró pretty brown-haired lassHó ró pretty brown-haired lassMy gentle charming pretty girlI'll marry none but you

Oh brown-haired Peggy, eyes like flowersMy love for you is great and deepAbove your eyes your foreheadAlways beautiful and sweet

Chorus

I will hide from no manThat my love for you is strongAlthough I went from you carousingI did not cease to love

Chorus

But when summer is upon usI will go to yonder glenAnd I swear I'll bring back with meMy darling and my love

Home Songwriter: Karla Bonoff

Lyrics:

Traveling at night, the headlights were brightAnd we’d been up many an hourAnd all through my brain Came the refrainOf home and it’s warming fire ChorusAnd HomeSings me of sweet thingsMy life there has it’s own wingsTo fly over the mountainsThough I'm standing still

The people I've seenThey come in betweenThe cities of tiring lifeThe trains come and go,But inside you knowThe struggle will soon be a fight

Chorus

Traveling at night,The headlights were bright.But soon the sun came through the treesAround the next bendThe flowers will sendThe sweet scene of home in the breeze

Chorus

I Live Not Where I LoveTraditional

Lyrics:

O Come all ye maids who live at a distanceMany's a mile from off your swayCome and assist me this very momentFor to pass away some timeSinging sweetly and completelySongs of pleasure and of loveFor me heart is with him altogetherThough I live not where I love

When I sleep I dream about you

When I wake I take no restEvery moment thinking on youMy heart o'er fixed in your breastBut although far distanceMay be of assistanceIf from my mind your love removeFor me heart is with him altogetherThough I live not where I love

All the world shall be of one religionAll living things shall cease to dieIf ever I should prove false to my jewelOr any way his love denyOh the world shall changeAnd be most strangeIf from my mind your love removeFor me heart is with him altogetherThough I live not where I love

So farewell lad and farewell lassiesNow I think I've made my choiceI will away to yonder mountainWhere I think I hear his voiceAnd if he hollows I will followAround the world though it is so wideFor young Thomas he did promiseI should be his lawful bride

Repeat first verse.

I MisunderstoodSongwriter: Richard Thompson

Lyrics:

He said darling I'm in love with you mindThe way you care for me it's so kindLove to see you again wish I had more timeHe was laughing as he brushed my cheekWhy don't you call me baby maybe next weekPromise now cross your heart and hope to die

Chorus

But I misunderstoodBut I misunderstoodBut I misunderstoodI thought he was saying good luckHe was saying goodbye

Repeat Chorus

Things I tried to put shine in his eyesWire wheels and shimmering thingsWild nights when the whole world seemed to flyHe said the thing that's so uniqueWhen we're together we don't have to speakWe'll always be such good friends you and I

Chorus

But I misunderstoodBut I misunderstoodBut I misunderstoodI thought he was saying good luckHe was saying goodbye

Repeart Chorus

I Say a Little PrayerSongwriter: Bacharach/David

Lyrics:

The moment I wake up, before I put on my make upI say a little prayer for youWhile combing my hair nowAnd wonderin' what dress to wear nowI say a little prayer for you

Forever, forever you'll stay in my heartAnd I will love you forever and everWe never will part and I will love youTogether, together that's how it must beTo live without you could only mean heartbreak for me

I run for the bus dear, while riding I think of us, dearAnd say a little prayer for youAt work I just take time, and all through my coffee break timeI say a little prayer for you

Chorus

Darlin' believe me, for me there is no one but youSay you love me too'Cause I'm in love with youAnswer my prayer nowSay you love me tooJust answer my prayer nowSay you love me too

Chorus

The moment I wake up, before I put on my make upAnswer my prayer nowSay you love me tooJust answer my prayer nowSay you love me too

I Will Be ThereSongwriter: Paul Brady/John O-Kane

Lyrics:

When times are hard and friends are fewAnd you need someone to help you throughJust call my name and I'll come running to your sideDon't be afraid don't be afraid

I will be thereWhen you are lost in the nightNo where to runI will be thereDon't be afraid don't be afraid

When morning comes and nothing's changedAnd the world around plays the same old gameJust call on me and I will ease your lonely heartDon't be afraid don't be afraid

I will be thereWhen you are lost in the nightNo where to turnI will be thereDon't be afraid don't be afraidI will be thereWhen every one that you believe still lets you downI will be thereDon't be afraid don't be afraid

Cause I will be there don't be afraidI will be there don't be afraidI will be there

When morning comes and nothing's changedAnd the world around plays the same old gameWhen everyone still lets you down

I will be there

When morning comes and friends are fewYou need someone you need someone to help you throughI will be there don't be afraidI will be there don't be afraidI will be there

When you are lost in the nightNo where to turnI will be thereDon't be afraidDon't be afraidI will be there

When everyone that you believe still lets you downI will be thereDon't be afraid don't be afraidI will be there

When you are lost in the nightNo where to turnI will be thereDon't be afraid don't be afraid

If I Gave My Heart To YouSongwriter: Jimmi Chi

Lyrics:

If I gave my heart to youWould you promise to be trueIt would break my heart in twoIf you left me waiting anticipating

Till some other magic dayI may steal your heart awayThen you would take my handAnd then understand meWhen you'd really see me

In a world of different dreamsWhere all things aren't what they seemWhen you would take my hand

If I gave my heartIf I gave my heartIf I gave my heart to you

For only truth remainsCause all things are just the sameThe excepting part of truth

If I gave my heartIf I gave my heartIf I gave my heart to you

In A DreamSongwriter: Noel Brazil

Lyrics:

Something about this is precious, Something about this is sadSomething about this is better, Than I've ever hadHard and lean, You know what I mean?How do the roots become tangled? Why does the spirit grow tired?Where is the key to your kingdom? Yes that's my desire.

CHORUS:

There are those who live to count the cost

And then those who count themselves contentI see heaven wrapped up in a boxIt is you come back to love again, In a dream, This living dream.

Up in a heap I'm not bothered, Down in the dumps I'm okayHere in my heart you're the best road, That I'll ever take, I'm serene yeh.

CHORUS:

There are those who live to take the chanceAnd then more who find themselves contentI see heaven mapped out in advanceIt is you and that's my journeys end, In a dream, This living dream.

I'm trying to hang on to the essence, I'm feeling more faint by the dayIt took such a long time to get it, I don't want to see it erased

CHORUS:

There are those who live to count the costAnd then more who count themselves contentI see heaven wrapped up in a boxIt is you come back to love again, In a dream, This living dreamThis living dream.

Into The BlueSongwriter: Tony Kerr

Lyrics:

Cast my boat out to the oceanand set it sails to the windGentle breeze blowing into my heartI'm alive in this gentle worldA life carefreeA life carefree

And in this love that you give meYou have to share the joy and mysteryThe wonder of your smileand the power of your wordsThat changes meThat changes me

Sometimes I could flyWhen your heart it touches mineDeep into the blueWhere my soul is lostand all because of you

Gave my heart to another loveCrashing waves of pain came over meIn my distress you came and rescued meStill the storm talked awayOf life carefreeOf life carefree

Sometimes I could flyWhen your heart it touches mineDeep into the blueWhere my soul is lostand all because of you

When I found myself far away from youThats when I hear your voiceReminding me, calling me, lifting meOut into the blue

Out into the blue

Sometimes I could flyWhen you heart it touches mineDeep into the blueWhere my soul is lostand all because of you

Isle Of St.HelenaTraditional, Source: Steve Turner

Lyrics:

Now Bony he has gone from his wars all a-fightin'He has gone to the place where he takes no delight in.And there he may sit down and tell the sights he's seen ofWhen full long doth he mourn on the Isle of St. Helena. No more in St. Cloud will he'll appear in great splendorNor step forth from the crowdlike the great Alexander,He may look to the east , while he thinks of Hana,with is heart full of war, on the Isle of St. Helena

The wide rushing waves all around the shores a-washin'And the wide billows heaves on the wild rocks are dashin'.He may look over the main to the great Mount DianaWith his eyes on the waves that surround St. Helena.

Oh, Louisy she weeps for her husband's departin'And she dreams while she sleeps and she wakes broken-hearted.There is none to console her, thought there is many to be with herWhile alone she does mourn while she thinks of St. Helena.

So you that have wealth, beware of ambitionFor there is some twist of fate could soon change your condition.Be steadfast in time what's to come change you cannotFor maybe your race will end on the Isle of St. Helena.

James ConnollyTrad. Arrangement The Black Family

Lyrics:

Where oh where is our James Connolly ?Where oh where is that gallant man ?He is gone to organise the UnionThat working men they may yet be free. Oh who then who will lead the van ?Oh who then who will lead the van ?Who but our James ConnollyThe hero of the working man.

Where oh where is the Citizen Army ?Where oh where is that gallant band ?They've gone to join the great rebellionThat working men they might yet be free.

Who will carry high the burning flag ?Who will carry high the burning flag ?Who but our James ConnollyCould carry high the burning flag.

They carried him up to the jailThey carried him up to the jailAnd they shot him down on a bright May morningAnd quickly laid him in his grave.

Who mourns the death of this great man ?

Who mourns the death of this great man ?Oh bury me down in yon green gardenWith union men on every side.

So they buried him down in yon green gardenWith union men on every sideThey swore they would form a mighty unionThat James Connolly's name might be filled with pride.

Where oh where is our James Connolly ?Where oh where is that gallant man ?He is gone to organise the UnionThat working men they may yet be free.

Johnny i Hardly Knew YeTraditional

Lyrics:

While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurrooWhile goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurrooWhile goin' the road to sweet Athy,A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye,A doleful damsel I heard cry,Johnny I hardly knew ye. With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurrooWith your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurrooWith your drums and guns and drums and guns,The enemy nearly slew yeOh my darling dear, Ye look so queerJohnny I hardly knew ye.

Where are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurrooWhere are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurrooWhere are your eyes that were so mild,When my heart you so beguiledWhy did ye go and leave me with childOh Johnny, I hardly knew ye

Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurrooWhere are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurrooWhere are your legs that used to run,When you went for to carry a gunIndeed your dancing days are doneOh Johnny, I hardly knew ye

With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurrooWith your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurrooWith your drums and guns and drums and guns,The enemy nearly slew yeOh my darling dear, Ye look so queerJohnny I hardly knew ye.

Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurrooYe haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurrooYe haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg,Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless eggYe'll have to put with a bowl out to begOh Johnny I hardly knew ye

I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurrooI'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurrooI'm happy for to see ye home,All from the island of Sulloon;So low in flesh, so high in boneOh Johnny I hardly knew ye

With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurrooWith your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo,

hurrooWith your drums and guns and drums and guns,The enemy nearly slew yeOh my darling dear, Ye look so queerJohnny I hardly knew ye.

Just a JourneySongwriter: Steve Cooney

Lyrics:

I heard the rhythm of her wings,an enchanting lover's dreamO how peacefully she sings,dancing in the midnight streamOpen hearted full of light,and breathing sweetly scented airShe'll be travelling tonight,with all our people everywhere

O what a world is this,heaven clear within our callA smoky ribbon gently rising is bushfire dreamingAll our people gatheringbefore the coming harvestingWe are wheat for the bread,we are wind and fire... and Law

I see the stars that blaze the dawnOf the Coming Living DayO, what a time is this, the time of choosing of our way...For there is no unknown,No uncertainty at all, for the only Onewho is forever, and can never fall...

O what a world is this, heaven clear within our callA smoky ribbon gently rising is bushfire dreamingAll our people gatheringbefore the coming harvestingWe are wheat for the bread,we are wind and fire and Law

Over countless waves and winds,a message hitting in our heartsget up and make a dream real,and don't be sitting in the dark!I've been travelling for years,more than half a million milesAnd if I weigh the veil of tearsAgainst the laughter, and the smiles,I'll be happy, for I'll know that whathas only come to passIs just a journey of a Spirit through a lifetime's changing,Re-arranging your own self,in accordance with the LightAnd with your own true Spirit, and may Peace be your tonight

Just Around The CornerSongwriter: Kieran Goss

Lyrics:

You've got no reason to say you're all aloneThere will be a change of seasonThat'll win a heart of stone

Chorus

Love is just around the cornerAnd standin' out of viewLove is just around the corner

For you

I can see a smile tomorrowA reason to go onThe sky is always darkestBefore the new day dawns.

Chorus...

Don't ever stop believingThe sun is going to shineIt's worth giving and receivingIf you only give it time

Chorus...

Don't think you've found salvation or that the day is wonWhen you reach your destinationThe journey's just begun

Chorus...

KatieSongwriter: Jimmy McCarthy

Lyrics:

Tumbling curls of green by stainglass streaming lightAnd a yellow coloured lampshade used to keep us up all nightAnd the smile upon her face, the tears upon your cheekAnd the night sky on the windowYour heart calling out to me.

Chorus

Come running home again, KatieCome running home againCross my heart and hope to dieShall I cause another tear from your eye

The mirror that won't talk and your nightgown on the doorAnd the old pedal Singer just don't sing no moreYou can roll the reels for hoursFrom the movie of this bookIt's a question mark on this heart of minesends an elder back to look.

Chorus

Now I'm looking through a tunnelBack into the roomWith the genius of a druid when the sunlight floods the tombAnd I'm never going back there, and I couldn't anyway'Cause though I made the great escapeI never got away.

Chorus

Late Night radioSongwriter: David Gray

Lyrics:

Oh Mary Jane, she step on the trainHead for the city lightYearning inside to swim with the tideand taste it all nightBag on her shoulder, breathing the coldThere by the metal tracksShe saw it all shine and swore in her mindshe'd never go back

She don't mind the late night, Late night radioShe don't mind the late night radioShe don't mind the late night, Late night radio

Couldn't have dreamed the things that she'd seenThere on the avenueShe stared right into a million eyesThat looked her right throughTelling red Joe, the places she'd goAnd wiping the table cleanShe got no idea the demon of fearOr what a broken heart means

She don't mind the late night, Late night radioShe don't mind the late night radioShe don't mind the late night, Late night radioNa Na Na Na Na Not at all

New York was darkDirty and starkBurning with yellow wingsEveryday come with fever and humWho knows what it bringsWalking a wall without thoughtTo fall and hit the groundOh sweet Mary Jane with eyes like rainAlive to the sound

She don't mind the late night, Late night radioShe don't mind the late night radioShe don't mind the late night, Late night radioShe don't mind the late nightLate night radioShe don't mind the late night radioShe don't mind the late nightLate night radioNot at all

Lay Down Your BurdenSongwriter: Jesse Winchester

Lyrics:

It's a cold old world that we're walking throughThey ought to tell you at the startBut it's warm as toast walkin' two by twoLay down the burden of your heart

Lay down the burden of your heartI know you'll never miss itJust show me, angel, where it hurtsAnd let your mammy kiss it

It's a fine fine line between love and hateIt's hard to tell the two apartBut what strength I have I offer youLay down the burden of your heart

Lay down the burden of your heartI know you'll never miss itJust show me, angel, where it hurtsAnd let your mammy kiss it

Lay down the burden of your heartI know you'll never miss itJust show me, angel, where it hurtsAnd let your mammy kiss it

Lay Down Your Weary TuneSongwriter: Bob Dylan

Lyrics:

Lay down your weary tune, lay down,Lay down the song you strum,And rest yourself 'neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum. Struck by the sounds before the sun,I knew the night had gone.The morning breeze like a bugle blewAgainst the drums of dawn.Lay down your weary tune, lay down,Lay down the song you strum,And rest yourself 'neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum.

The ocean wild like an organ played,The seaweed's wove its strands.The crashin' waves like cymbals clashedAgainst the rocks and sands.

I stood unwound beneath the skiesAnd clouds unbound by laws.The crying rain like a trumpet sangAnd asked for no applause.

Lay down your weary tune, lay down,Lay down the song you strum,And rest yourself 'neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum.

The last of leaves fell from the treesAnd clung to a new love's breast.The branches bare like a banjo playedTo the winds that listened best.

I gazed down in the river's mirrorAnd watched its winding strum.The water smooth ran like a hymnAnd like a harp did hum.

Lay down your weary tune, lay down,Lay down the song you strum,And rest yourself 'neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum.

Leaboys LassieTrad. Arranged Black/Sinnott

Lyrics:

First when I came to the townThey called me young and bonnyNow they've changed my nameCalled me the Leaboy's honey.

I'll dye my petticoats redAnd I'll face them with a yellowI'll tell the dyester ladsThat the Leaboys I've to follow.

It's over hills and dalesAnd over dykes and ditchesSay will I like the ladWho wears the moleskin breeches

The black horse draws the cartAnd he's as proud as anySay will I like the ladThat drives them on so canny

Feather beds are fineAnd painted rooms are bonnyBut I would leave them allTo jog away with Johnny

Oh, for Saturday night

It's I that'll see my dearieHe'll come whistlin' inWhen I am tired and weary.

First when I came to the townThey called me proud and saucyNow they've changed my nameCalled me the Leaboy's lassie.

Leaving The LandSongwriter: Eric Bogle

Lyrics:

It's time to go, JennyNo need to close the doorWhat if the dust gets in the houseIt doesn't matter any moreYou and the dust have been at war for far too many yearsNow the war is over Jenny dear.

Chorus

Leaving the landLeaving the landLeaving all I've ever been and everything I amLeaving the land.

Remember when I brought you hereThose long bright years agoFor all that time you've been my heartAnd this land has been my soulThe long bright days are over now but still the heart beats onBut Jenny dear the soul is gone.

Chorus

I't time to go, JennyDrive quickly down the trackWe'll never see what lies ahead if we keep on looking backBehind is just an empty houseOld memories and ghostsAnd our small dream gathering dust.

Chorus

Looking ForwardSongwriter: John Gorka

Lyrics:

I never cared about the car I'd driveOr the room I'd sleep or the bus I'd rideJust as long as I could get somewhereAnd not get hurt I could breathe out thereI knew I could be free out there ... could be me

I never cared about the word prestigeAbout no inside track or no noblesse obligeJust as long as I could pay my wayAnd pull my weight and say my sayAs long as I could pay my way ... I could say

Bridge

I never had no plans just dreams and vague directionsI would not make my standI the house of correctionsNow I can see at last I see that everything is changingAnd if you want to hold on fast the future needs arranging

Chorus

Now I'm looking forward to youNow I'm looking forward to youMy former view was backwardMy backward view as blueNow I'm looking forward to you

Love had a weight designed to bring me downMy hands would sweat and my heart would poundNow I've learned it and I've turned aroundAnd I hanker for that anchor soundI hanker for that anchor soundOnce designed to bring me down

Repeart Bridge & Chorus

Loving YouSongwriter: John Sebastian

Lyrics:

I have been wond'ringwhat I'm gonna dowhile you are sleeping am I sleeping toowell I'm just sittin' here lovin' you close my eyes and lovin' youoh I'm just sittin' backsittin' here lovin' you

If you've been wond'rinjust what I would doif I weren't sleepinghad I not found youwell I'd be outside finding youI'd be walkin' down avenue finding youoh I'm just sittin' here lovin' you

Oh the reason that you never see me runnin' roundfingers on my forehead couldn't calm me downand I can't even get me up and on my feetI have to take care of some bus'ness on the streetoh I have been walkin' all my streets aloneI'd keep on walkin' to keep from goin' homeI couldn't quite barely conceive of younow I can't conceive of ever leavin' youoh I'm just stittin' backsittin' here lovin' you

oh I'm just sittin' here lovin' youoh I'm just sittin' backsittin' here lovin' you

Loving HannahTrad. Arrangement Mary Black

Lyrics:

I went to church on SundayMy love, she passed me byI knew her mind was changingBy the roving of her eyeBy the roving of her eyeBy the roving of her eyeI knew her mind was changingBy the roving of her eye

My love's fair and properHer waist is neat and smallShe is quite good-lookingAnd that' s the best of allAnd that' s the best of all

And that' s the best of allAnd she is quite good-lookingAnd that' s the best of all

Oh, Hannah, loving HannahCome give to me your handYou said that if you're marriedThat I will be the oneThat I will be the oneThat I will be the oneYou said that if you're marriedThat I will be the one

I will go down by the riverWhen everyone's asleepI'll think of loving HannahAnd then sit down and grieveAnd then sit down and grieveAnd then sit down and grieveI'll think of loving HannahAnd then sit down and grieve

I went to church on SundayMy love she passed me byI knew her mind was changingBy the roving of her eyeBy the roving of her eyeBy the roving of her eyeI knew her mind was changingBy the roving of her eye

Mary's Wedding

Lyrics:

Chorus:Step we gaily on we go,heel and heeland toe for toearm and arm and row and rowall for Marie's wedding

Over hillways, up and own,Myrtle green and bracken brownPast the sheilings, through the townall for the sake of Marie.

Chorus

Red her cheeks as Rowan's are,Bright her eyes as any star.Fairest of them all by far, Is our darling Marie.

Chorus

Plenty herring, plenty meal,Plenty peat to fill her kreel,Plenty bonnie bairns as well,That's the toast for Marie.

Chorus (repeat several times)

Men of WorthSongwriter: Archie Fisher

Lyrics:

Leave the land behind, laddie, better days to findThe companies have the money and they'll soon teach you the skillsGreen fields fall away, the forties and the braeBe a madman or a roustabout, they'll soon teach you to

drill But who will tend me sheep when I'm far o'er the deep?Amanertune or the sea quest when the snow comes to the hillLa, la, la, ....

Leave the fishing trade, lads, there's money to be madeThe hand-line and the Shetland yawl are of a bygone dayCome to Aberdeen; sights you've never seen!Be a welder on the pipeline or a fitter out on the bay

But when the job is over and your boat rots on the shoreHow will you feed your family when the companies go away?La, la, la, ....

There's harbors to be built, lads, rigs to tow and tiltTo rest upon the ocean bed like pylons in the seaPipeline to be laid and a hundred different tradesThat'll pay a decent living wage to the likes of you and me

I know you're men of worth; you're the best that's in the northNot men of greed, but men who need the work that's come your wayFrom (fluppatemunke) shore a new industry is bornOld Peterhead and Pomerty will never be the same

I know you're men of worth; you're the best that's in the northNot men of greed, but men who need the work that's come your wayLa, la, la, ....

Message of LoveSongwriter: Steve Cooney

Lyrics:

Chorus

A message of love, right to your heartComes from above, to make a new startTo spark a new flame,that will ring the world roundPlaying destiny's gameAnd creating her sound in a messageof love

Tell all your friends, our time is hereWe're on our way, the message is clearWe're an act of creation, nowand foreverWe're a river of nationsWe're coming together in a messageof love

Chorus

Spirits of love, spirits of lifeHelp us be strong, help us to do rightHere is our chance, to heal the old scarsLearn a new way to dance to the song ofthe starsWith a message of love

Chorus

I hear the butterflies dreaming, in theshimmering airI feel the power of life, a floweringfire everywhereI sing the tree, and the dove the eagle,

fox and the hareThe right to exist is our right, weall shareIt's a message of love

Chorus

When evening falls, focus your mindWhen spirits call let your body unwindAnd open your heart, and do it todayAnd do what is right, and do not delayBecause a message of love

Chorus

Might As Well Be A SlaveSongwriter: Noel Brazil

Lyrics:

Lying here watching the time passI could think of a million things I'd rather doTravel at my own pacePut myself asleep if I wanted to

Chorus

Might as well be behind barsThan be lashed to a wave that I can't haulMight as well be a slaveLying low in the shade of a prison wall

Lying here watching the time passI could cry for the helping hands that I refusedWe were good friends but I did refuse

Chorus

Might as well be behind barsGetting used to the sound of my keeper's callI might as well be a slaveDrinking sun through a chink in a prison wall

Down here down where the end isYou absolve me from every crime I ever plannedI was so surprised I did not think that you would understand

Chorus

Might as well be behind barsGrowing old in a carpeted hallO might as well be a slaveEver safe out of the rain in prison walls

Might as well be behind barsGetting used to the sound of my keeper's callI might as well be a slaveAlways safe out of the rain in prison walls.

Mo Ghile MearSongwriter: Seán Clarach MacDomhnaill

Lyrics:

Sé mo laoch mo Ghile Mear‘Sé mo Chaesar, Ghile Mear,Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féinÓ chuaigh i gcéin mo Ghile Mear. Bímse buan ar buaidhirt gach ló,Ag caoi go cruaidh ’s ag tuar na ndeórMar scaoileadh uaim an buachaill beó’s ná ríomhtar tuairisc uaidh, mo bhrón

Ní labhrann cuach go suairc ar nóinIs níl guth gadhair i gcoillte cnó,Ná maidin shamhraidh i gcleanntaibh ceoighÓ d’imthigh sé uaim an buachaill beó.

Marcach uasal uaibhreach óg,Gas gan gruaim is suairce snódh,Glac is luaimneach, luath I ngleoAg teascadh an tslua ’s ag tuargain treon.

Seinntear stair ar chlairsigh cheoil’s líontair táinte cárt ar bordLe hinntinn ard gan chaim, gan cheóchun saoghal is sláinte d’ fhagháil dom leómhan.Ghile Mear ‘sa seal faoi chumha,‘S Éire go léir faoi chlócaibh dubha;Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féinÓ cuaigh i gcéin mo Ghile Mear.

Seal da rabhas im’ mhaighdean shéimh,’s anois im’ bhaintreach chaite thréith,Mo chéile ag treabhadh na dtonn go tréanDe bharr na gcnoc is I n-imigcéin.

English Translation (thanks to Marina Antolioni)

ChorusHe is my hero, my dashing darlingHe is my Caesar, dashing darling.I've had no rest from forebodingsSince he went far away my darling.

Every day I am constantly sadWeeping bitterly and shedding tearsBecause our lively lad has left usAnd no news from him is heard alas.

The cuckoo sings not pleasantly at noonAnd the sound of hounds is not heard in nut-filled woods,Nor summer morning in misty glenSince he went away from me, my lively boy.

Noble, proud young horsemanWarrior unsaddened, of most pleasant countenaceA swift-moving hand, quick in a fight,Slaying the enemy and smiting the strong.

Let a strain be played on musical harpsAnd let many quarts be filledWith high spirit without fault or mistFor life and health to toast my lion.

Dashing darling for a while under sorrowAnd all Ireland under black cloaksRest or pleasure I did not getSince he went far away my dashing darling.

For a while I was a gentle maidenAnd now a spent worn-out widowMy spouse ploughing the waves stronglyOver the hills and far away.

MomentsSongwriter: Martins Haworth

Lyrics:

These are the moments that we love so wellPrecious moments caught within a spellAll too soon our lives thay fade awayThese are the moments that we wish would stay

If I had my life to live againI would choose to be with you my friend

Time moves slowly and it goes so fastAnd who knows how long the days will last

So cherish deep within youThe love you get todayLet the moment lingerCause tomorrow steals that awayYes tomorrow steals that away

These are the memories that we made so wellLives like stories that we long to tellWhen we're old with not too much to sayWe'll have the memories that we made todayWe'll have the memories that we made today

Moon RiverSongwriter: Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini

Lyrics:

Moon river, wider than a mileI'm crossing you in style some dayOh, dream maker, you heart breakerWherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way Two drifters, off to see the worldThere's such a lot of world to seeWe're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bendMy huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me

Oh, dream maker, you heart breakerWherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the worldThere's such a lot of world to seeWe're after that same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bendMy huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me

My DonaldSongwriter: Owen Hand, Arrangement Mary Black

Lyrics:

Oh my Donald he works on the seaOn the waves that blow wild and freeHe splices the ropes and he sets the sailsWhile southward he rolls to the home of the whale And he ne'er thinks o' me far behindNor the torments that rage in my mindHe's mine for only part of the yearAnd I'm left all alone with only my tears

Ye ladies that smell of wild roseThink ye for your perfume to where a man goesThink ye o' the wives and the babies that yearnFor a man ne'er returning from hunting the sperm

My Donald he works on the seaOn the waves that blow wild and freeHe splices the ropes and sets the sailsWhile southward he rolls to the home of the whale

My Youngest Son Came Home TodaySongwriter: Eric Bogle

Lyrics:

My youngest son came home todayHis friends marched with him all the wayThe pipes and drum beat out the timeWhile in his box of polished pineLike dead meat on a butcher's trayMy youngest son came home today

My youngest son was a fine young manWith a wife, a daughter and two sonsA man he would have lived and diedTill by a bullet sanctifiedNow he's a saint or so they sayThey brought their young saint home today

Above the narrow Belfast streetsAn Irish sky looks down and weepsAt children's blood in gutters spilledIn dreams of freedom unfulfilledAs part of freedom's price to payMy youngest son came home today

My youngest son came home todayHis friends marched with him all the wayThe pipe and drum beat out the timeWhile in his box of polished pineLike dead meat on a butcher's trayMy youngest son came home todayAnd this time he'shome to stay

NightimeSongwriter: Donagh Long

Lyrics:

ICity walls where the neon spits as it fallsTwo dark shadows fade in the nightThis is no place for loveand in the park where the streetlight kisses the darkSilent waves and times they're ownThey'll have their own way now

IIIn the nighttime neon sunset leapsout of the heart of the city streetsTo the pavement where the dancing girls go downto another worldWhere the bright lights always sineFrom the pale love and the painted facecheap disguises of another raceWhere the sweet life and the flowing wine makes meLight in my head Dan takes the trouble off my mindBut I know that goes so far

Chorus

We could be like lovers too dancing in this frozen roomHold me, hold me, stand so closeTake the time don't leave, don't leave me here there's danger

IIII heard the voices in the night, flashing in the hillsThe smell of burning on the windWe could be in danger from the strangers here insideFrom the glory in their livesAnd the passion in their eyes

Chorus & repeat II

No frontiersSongwriter: Jimmy McCarthy

Lyrics:

If life is a river and your heart is a boatAnd just like a water baby, baby born to floatAnd if life is a wild wind that blows way on highThen your heart is Amelia dying to flyHeaven knows no frontiersAnd I've seen heaven in your eyes

And if life is a bar room in which we must wait'Round the man with his fingers on the ivory gatesWhere we sing until dawn of our fears and our fatesAnd we stack all the deadmen in self addressed cratesIn your eyes faint as the singing of a larkThat somehow this black nightFeels warmer for the sparkWarmer for the sparkTo hold us 'til the dayWhen fear will lose its gripAnd heaven has its wayHeaven knows no frontiersAnd I've seen heaven in your eyes

If your life is a rough bed of brambles and nailsAnd your spirit's a slave to man's whips and man's jailsWhere you thirst and you hunger for justice and rightThen your heart is a pure flame of man's constant nightIn your eyes faint as the singing of a larkThat somehow this black nightFeels warmer for the sparkWarmer for the sparkTo hold us 'til the day when fear will lose its gripAnd heaven has its wayAnd heaven has its wayWhen all will harmoniseAnd know what's in our heartsThe dream will realise

Heaven knows no frontiersAnd I've seen heaven in your eyesHeaven knows no frontiersAnd I've seen heaven in your eyes

Nobody Lives Without LoveSongwriter: Larry Klein - Tonio K.

Lyrics:

Seemed like I'd gone off the side of a mountainCouldn't be sure I was even aliveFallen from the icy heightsLanded with a broken cryIn this valley of shadows and sorrow and sighsCan you save me baby

Chorus

Nobody lives without loveNobody gets to give upYou can try to lock your heart awayBut love will come back for you some dayNobody lives without love

Thought I could live out my life as a strangerHide from the heartbreak that love always bringsMake it to the higher groundTry to turn the volume downCouldn't stop the sirens from singingSing for me baby

Repeat Chorus

You came along like a flash of pure lightningCrashed into my life like a runaway starFeel myself falling like gravity's angelNow I'm standing here offering a stranger my heart

Repeart Chorus

Seemed like I'd gone off the side of a mountainCouldn't be sure I was even aliveThought I could live my life as a stranger

Hide from the heart break that love always bringsSeemed like I'd gone off the side of a mountainCouldn't be sure I was even alive

Once In a Very Blue MoonSongwriter: Patrick Alger/Eugene Levine

Lyrics:

I found your letter in my mailbox todayYou were just checking if I was okayAnd if I miss you, well you know what they sayJust once in a very blue moonJust once in a very blue moonJust once in a very blue moonAnd I feel one coming on soon

No need to ask me if we can be friendsAnd help me right back on my feet againAnd if I miss you, well just now and thenJust once in a very blue moon Just once in a very blue moon Just once in a very blue moon And I feel one coming on soon

There's a blue moon shiningWhen I am reminded of all we've been throughSuch a blue moon shiningDoes it ever shine down on you?

You act as if it doesn't hurt you at allLike I'm the only one who's getting up from a fallDon't you remember now don't you recallJust once in a very blue moon Just once in a very blue moon Just once in a very blue moon And I feel one coming on soon Just once in a very blue moon

Once And OnlySongwriter: Scott Cutler/Annie Preven

Lyrics:

I do not see the way outI do not really know howLike a shot in the darkWent your hallowed groundHad you taken too muchKept me well out of touchAnd refused to let me go

I cannot see to you painI do not hear you complainYou are now but a dot in the pouring rainYou created this mess now I'm bent to your stressAnd it seems to suit you well

One and only two can be lonelyI'm my own child blessed and unholyI your eyes the storm surely rising upDo do do do

I do not see the way outYou cannot turn this aroundLike a walk in the darkYou have weighed me downI can't stand in your placeCan't take this awayIt was all good to be true

One and only two can be lonelyI'm my own child blessed and unholyI your eyes a storm surely rising up

Do do do do

Oh you never talk about itNo you never scream about itYou took a spirit young and wholeYou turned this child into an old soulOld soul

One and only two can be lonelyI'm my own child blessed and unholyI your eyes a storm surely rising upDo do do do

Oh you never talk about itNo you never scream about itYou covet things that you don't ownYou turn this child into and old soulOld sould

One and only two can be lonelyI'm my own child blessed and unholyI your eyes a storm surely rising up

One and only two can be lonelyI'm my own child blessed and unholyI your eyes a storm surely rising up

Only a Woman's HeartSongwriter: Eleanor McEvoy

Lyrics:

My heart is low, My heart is so lowAs only a woman's heart can beAs only a woman, as only a woman'sAs only a woman's heart can know

The tears that drip from my bewildered eyesTaste of bittersweet romanceYou're still in my hopesYou're still on my mind ohAnd even though I manage on my own

My heart is low, My heart is so lowAs only a woman's heart can beAs only a woman, only a woman'sAs only a woman's heart can know

When restless eyes reveal my troubled soulAnd memories flood my weary heartI mourn for my dreamsI mourn for my wasted loveAnd while I know that I'll survive alone

My heart is low, My heart is so lowAs only a woman's heart can beAs only a woman, only a woman'sAs only a woman's heart can know

Paddy's LamentationTrad. Arrangement Paddy Moloney/Mary Black

Lyrics:

Well it's by the hush, me boys, and sure that's to hold your noise And listen to poor Paddy's sad narration I was by hunger pressed, and in poverty distressed So I took a thought I'd leave the Irish nation ChorusHere's to you boys, now take my advice To America I'll have ye's not be going There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar

And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

Well I sold me horse and cow, my little pigs and sow My little plot of land I soon did part with And me sweetheart Bid McGee, I'm afraid I'll never see For I left her there that morning broken-hearted

Chorus

Well meself and a hundred more, to America sailed o'er Our fortunes to be made we were thinkin' When we got to Yankee land, they shoved a gun into our hands Saying "Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln"

General Meagher was he said, if you get shot or lose your head Every murdered soul of youse will get a pension Well meself I lost me leg, they gave me a wooden peg, And by God this is the truth to you I mention

Chorus

Paper FriendsSongwriter: Noel Brazil

Lyrics:

They sent you down a paper friend I hearand you went back on all the vows you once held so dearThere you stretched so calm and quietand things looked good now don't deny itYou walked on air for fifteen minutes and after that there was nothing in itYou don't need those paper friends at allno you don't need those kind of friends

You say you've lost your sense of time againwell you've been using that excuse since who knows whenYou went the way of all young rebelsignore the Gods embrace the DevilsBut they're no good for you in your stateso why not drive them right out of your gates'Cos you don't need those paper friends at allyou don't need those type of friends

No one knows what you're feelingand life goes on in its own sweet timeYour passions flame for no reasonyou haunt the city for something that shineseven one thing to rhyme

And if I meet you on the rounds todayI hope you won't turn on your heel or walk awayYes I know it takes so much effortbut facing up can be so much betterSo what if dreams they all come to nothingjust blow your nose and keep on looking'Cos you don't need those paper friends at allyou don't need those kind of friendsYes you don't need those paper friends at allyou don't need those paper friends

Past The Point Of RescueSongwriter: Mick Hanly

Lyrics:

Last night I dreamed you were back againLarger than life again, holding me tight againPlacing those same kisses on my browSweeter than ever now, Lord I remember howCouldn't get enough of kissing

Do you know how much I'm missing?No you don't, but I do

Days like a slow train trickle byEven the words that I write refuse to flyAll that I can hear is your song haunting meCan't get the melody out of my head you seeDistractions I've been usingDo you know how much I'm losing?No you don't, but I do

But I do and I wonder if I'm past the point of rescueAn is no word from you at all the best that you can doNever meant to push or shove youDo you know how much I love you?No you don't, but I do.

Poison TreeSongwriter: William Blake (poem( & Marcia Howard (music)

Lyrics:

I was angry with my friendI told him so and my wrath did endI was angry with my foetold him not and my wrath did grow

and I watered it in fearsnight and morning with my tearsand I sunned it with smilesand with soft deceitful wiles

and it grew both day and nighttill it bore an apple brightand my foe beheld it shineand he knew that it was mine

was a poison treebeware of a Poison TreePoison Treegrowing inside of me

and into my garden stolewhen the night had veiled the polein the morning glad I seemy foe outstretchedbeneath that tree

was a Poison Treebeware of a Poison TreePoison Treegrowing inside of me

Poison Treebeware of a Poison TreePoison Tree

what happened to youand me

Poison WordsSongwriter: Paul Doran

Lyrics:

I remember when we were sweetheartsI was safe with you, you were my protectorThose days are over, now I need someoneSomeone to keep me safe from you

Love was all we had, we were young and sureWho'd expect their love would turn to warI don't know who to pity more

How much pain can love endure?

I should leave you but I can't seem toYou say I'm sorry dear and I believe youThough the next time may be the worst yetHow easily I forgive, how quickly you forget

The poison words, the uglinessWhen low on hope and deep into debtThe promises that bring regretFor loving you is this all I get?

The poison words, the uglinessthe cold remains of married blissto all our dreams a fatal kissOh what kind of love is this?

Prayer For LoveSongwriter: Thom Moore

Lyrics:

Faith won't heal up everthingThe wound grows and you believe in loveWalk around feeling cut in two,Wide open, with your hear on viewAll you bereaved, all you besotted boys in need,When love won't heel you, wh, why believe she will?

O Lyubvi malyu otchayannoSay it on your knees

Oh, so sharp, and way too cool,Love's bright and biggest foolhas to work on speaking slow,To think hard, and to lie lowWill you believe? All you bedazzled boys in need,V krayu dalyokum, chuzhie ne nuzhny.

Chorus

O tyubvi malyum otchayannoSay it on your knees,Crying like a baby, "Plese, please, please!"Crying, hoping maybe,O tyubvi malyum otchayannoSay it on your knees,

Candle is a splendid thing:The room glows, and the candle sings"Fly up to the only light,"Ev'ry, ev'ry tiny wing!"The moth inside you bolts off to join the beautiful;He flies and dies,So quickly, quickly wise.

Chorus...

Rares HillTrad. Arrangement Mary Black

Lyrics:

Last year at Lady Mary's fair when I was in DundeeI fell in with an old sweetheart and he being on a spreeHis company I did accept and with him I did goBut to my sad misfortune it proved my poor 'through We wandered east we wandered west we wandered through the lawnHe said he'd see me home that night but home I never sawHe kept beside me all the while resolved to have his willAnd by and by we lost our way, at the back of Rare's Hill

For when we got to Rare's Hill, the laddie said to meWe can't go home tonight my dear, it's far to late you'll seeBut the night is warm and in my bush, I've got another drillAnd we can lie down here, content, at the back of Rare's Hill

For then he poured a nipper piece to quiet all alarmWhen I awoke in the morning we were locked in each other's armsHe handed me the bottle, another glass to fillAnd I drank his heath, in store o'wealth, at the back of Rare's Hill

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 harm""If you will come to yonder town, my wedded wife you'll be""we'll be the happiest couple t'was ever in Dundee"

So it's may I never prosper, and may I never thriveIn anything I take in hand as long as I'm aliveIf e'er I say I rue the day, my laddie had his willSuccess to Lady Mary's fair, and the back of Rare's Hill.

Raven In the stormSongwriter: John Gorka & Geoff Bartley

Lyrics:

I'm the latest apparitionCutting slices in the nightI come through without permissionMoving in and out of human sight

I'm the tapping on your shoulderI am the raving in the stormI'll take shelter in you raftersI'm the shiver when you're warm

I'm the gold in CaliforniaI am the well in MexicoLike the vultures in the valleyI will wait for you to go

I'm the gypsy in you pocketI am the horseman in your dreamsI'm the reason dogs are barkingI am the hand that stops the scream

I am the baby's cry that isn'tI am the distant relativeI'm the scratching in the ceilingI am advice you shouldn't give

I'm the ghost of a travelling salesmanMy foot will be there in your doorThough I can walk through walls and windowsI will knock just like before

I am the darkness in your daughterI am the spot beneath the skinI am the scarlet on the pavementI am the broken heart within

I won't take a train to nowhereI will not touch just anyoneAsk a stranger why I'm waitingIn the chamber of a gun

Ring Them BellsSongwriter: Bob Dylan

Lyrics:

Ring them bells, ye heathenFrom the city that dreamsRing them bells from the sanctuariesCross the valleys and streamsFor they're deep and they're wideAnd the world's on its sideAnd time is running backwardsAnd so is the bride

Ring the bells St.PeterWhere the four winds blowRing them bells with an iron handFor the people will knowOh it's rush hour nowOn the wheel and the plowAnd the sun is going downUpon the sacred cow

Ring them bells Sweet MarthaFor the poor man's sonRing them bells so the world will knowThat God is oneOh the shephered is asleepWhere the willows weepAnd the mountains they are filledWith lost sheep

Ring them bells for the blind and the deafRing them bells for all of us who are leftRing them bells for the chosen fewWho will judge the many when the day is throughRing them bells, for the time that fliesFor the child that criesWhen the innocence dies

Ring them bells St.CatherineFrom the top of the roomRing the bells from the fortressFor the lillies that bloomFor the lines they are longAnd the fighting is strongAnd they're breaking down the distanceBetween right and wrong

Róisín Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: Half the time I don't even hear what people are sayingHalf the time I'm so far gone not a word gets inI'm here you're there okay but I just want to tell youRóisín

Which side of the coin we show is open to debateEither way I accept what the wind bringsI'm here you're there okay but I just want to tell youRóisín Róisín

Is it the way that I'm too late?If there's a chance you know I'll waitRóisín

Other hands claw but mine can be gentleNo bad blood within meThis is a thing so rare oh it's great to be near youRóisín Róisín

If all is fair in love and warWhy am I here and you're so far?Róisín

My heart's beating under a cloudI can't get away from you nowRóisín

My heart's beating under a cloudThere's nothing out of it nowRóisín Róisín

Rose Of Allendale Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement Mary Black Lyrics: The moon was bright, the night was clearNo breeze came over the seaWhen Mary left her highland homeAnd wandered forth with meThe flowers be-decked the mountainsideAnd fragrance filled the valeBut by far the sweetest flower thereWas the Rose of Allendale

Oh the Rose of AllendaleSweet Rose of AllendaleBy far the sweetest flower thereWas the Rose of Allendale

Where e'er I wandered east or westThough fate began to lourA solace still was she to meIn sorrow's lonely hourWhen tempests lashed our lonely barqueAnd rent her quivering sailOne maiden's form withstood the storm'Twas the Rose of Allendale

Oh sweet Rose of AllendaleSweet Rose of AllendaleOne maiden's form withstood the storm'Twas the Rose of Allendale

And when my fever'd lips were parchedOn Afric's burning sandsShe whispered hopes of happinessAnd tales of distant landsMy life has been a wildernessUnblessed by fortune's wheelHad fate not linked my love to hersThe Rose of Allendale

Oh sweet Rose of AllendaleSweet Rose of AllendaleHad fate not linked my love to hersThe Rose of Allendale

Saw You Running Songwriter: Thom Moore Lyrics: When I lay down to take my restMost of the time my minds on happiness, yesSome of the time but not for longI get a feeling of something that's yet to comeI get a picture telling me what's undone

Chorus

When I find out that you don't love me honeyWhen I find out that your going awayThere'll be no surpriseBecause I saw you runningSaw you running from where I layThere'll be no surpriseBecause I saw you runningSaw you running from where I lay

Well I've got an eye upon the roadAnd I've got a hand to hold my heavy load oh yesI've got a man and I've got a gunOne is for fighting oh the other one is just for funOne is for fighting oh the other one is just for fun

Chorus

When I lay down to take my restMost of the time my minds on happiness, yesSome of the time but not for longI get a feeling of something that's yet to comeI get a picture telling me what's undone

2x Chorus

Schooldays Over Songwriter: Ewan McColl Lyrics: Schooldays over, come on then JohnTime to be getting your pit boots onOn with your sack and your moleskin trousersTime you were on your wayTime you were learning the pitman's jobAnd earning a pitman's pay.

Come on then Jim, it's time to goTime you were working down belowTime to be handling a pick and shovelYou start at the pits todayTime to be learning the collier's jobAnd earning a collier's pay.

Come on then Dai, it's nearly lightTime you were off to the anthraciteThe morning mist is on the valleyIt's time you were on your wayTime you were learning the miner's jobAnd earning a miner's pay

Repeat First Verse

She Moves Through The Fair Songwriter: Traditional Lyrics:

My love said to meMy Mother won't mindAnd me Father won't slight youFor you lack of kindThen she stepped away from meAnd this she did sayIt will not be long loveTill our wedding day

She stepped away from meAnd she moved through the FairAnd fondly I watched herMove here and move thereAnd she went her way homewardWith on star awakeAs the swans in the eveningMove over the lake

The people were sayingNo two e'er were wedBut one has a sorrowThat never was saidAnd she smiled as she passed meWith her goods and her gear

And that was the lastThat I saw of my dear

I dreamed last nightThat my true love came inSo softly she enteredHer feet made no dinShe came close beside meAnd this she did sayIt will not be long loveTill our wedding day Shine Songwriter: David Gray Lyrics: I can see it in your eyesWhat I know in my heart is trueThat our love it has faded like the summer run throughSo we walk doen the shore line one last time togetherFeel the wind blow our wandering hearts like a featherBut who knows who's waiting in the wings of timeDry your eyesWe're gonna go where we can shine

Don't be hiding in sorrow or clinging to the pastWith your beauty so precious and the seasons so fastNo matter how cold the horizon appears or how far the first night when I

held you nearYou've gotta rise from these ashes like a bird of flameTake my handWe're gonna go where we can shine

For all that we struggle for all we pretendIt don't come down to nothing except love in the endAnd ours is a road that is strewn with goodbyesBut as it unfolds as it all unwindsRemember your soul is the one thing you just can't compromiseStep out of the shadows

You gotta go where we can shineOh we're gonna go where we can shineShine

Shuffle Of The Buckled Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Lyrics: The moon was fullAnd their hearts were emptyWhen I stopped to watch the river go downSaw the gleaming eyesOn your blind two cornersHeard the Shuffle of the BuckledAs they come to lay their money down

Ooo not even with his money downAnd he fades in the shadowsOf the walls of night in this townHe just fades in the shadowsOf the walls of night in this town

My heart was numb and my eyes stopped runningAnd the wind chilled my bones where I stoppedTo watch that river go downAnd the song on this streetBoasts no chest proud anthemIt's the shuffle of the buckledAs they come to lay their money down

Chorus

The moon was fullAnd their hearts were emptyWhen I stopped to watch the river go downOoo not even with his money down

Siúl A Rún Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement Mary Black Lyrics:

I would I were on yonder hillIt's there I'd sit and cry my fillAnd every tear would turn the millIs go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán

ChorusSiúl siúl siúl a rún Siúl go socair 'is siúl go ciúinSiúl go doras agus éalaigh liomIs go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán

I'll sell my rock I'll sell my reelI'll sell my only spinning wheelFor to buy my love a coat of steelIs go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán

Chorus

I'll dye my petticoats I'll dye them redAnd round the world I'll beg for breadUntil my parents would wish me deadIs go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán

Chorus

And now my love has gone to FranceTo try his fortune to advanceIf he ne'er came back there'll be but a chanceIs go dté tú mo mhúirnin slán

Chorus

Song For Ireland Songwriter: Phil Colclough Lyrics: Walking all the day, near tall towerswhere falcons build their nestsSiver winged they fly,they know the call of freedom in their breastsSaw Black Head against the skywith twisted rocks that run down to the seaLiving on your western shore,saw summer sunsets, asked for moreI stood by your Atlantic seaand sang a song for Ireland

Talking all the day with true friendswho try to make you stayTelling jokes and news,singing songs to pass the night awayWatched the Galway salmon runlike silver dancing darting in the sunLiving on your western shoresaw summer sunsets, asked for moreI stood by your Atlantic seaand sang a song for Ireland

Drinking all the day in old pubswhere fiddlers love to playSomeone touched the bow,he played a reelit seemed so fine and gay

Stood on Dingle beachand cast in wild foam we found Atlantic bassLiving on your western shore,saw summer sunsets asked for moreI stood by your Atlantic seaand sang a song for Ireland

Dreaming in the night I saw a landwhere no man had to fightWaking in your dawnI saw you crying in the morning lightLying where the falcons fly,they twist and turn all in you e'er blue skyLiving on your western shore,saw summer sunsets asked for moreI stood by your Atlantic seaand sang a song for Ireland

Sonny Songwriter: R. Hynes Lyrics: Sonny lives on a farm, in a wide open spaceTake off your shoes, stay out of the raceLay down your head, on a soft river bedSonny always remembers the words Mamma says.

ChorusSonny don't go away, I'm here all aloneYour Daddy's a sailor, never comes home,Nights are so long, silence goes on,I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.

Sonny works on the land, though he's barely a manThere's not much to do but he does what he canSits by his window in his room by the stairsWatching the waves drifting soft on the pier.

Chorus

Many years have rolled on, Sonny's old and aloneHis Daddy the sailor, never came homeSometimes he wonders what his life might have beenBut from the grave Mamma still haunts his dreams. Chorus

Soul Sister Songwriter: Shane Howard Lyrics: Looking backDown that long road you have travelledAnd I seeAll the pain that you have suffered

A young girl waks on ancient sandDesert flower in her handBarefoot on the red heartlandInnocence makes few demands

Heart and soulMy soul sisterGot that special part of meSuch sweet loveAnd deep devotionWho would tame what's wild and free?

Here we areIn this crazy, crazy worldCircumstanceCan lead you on to desperationLove can save the weary heartOr it can tear us all apart

I would rather take that chanceThan to never trust again

Heart and soulMy soul sisterGot that special part of meSuch sweet love and deep devotionWho would tame what's wild and free?

Looking forwardDown that long road we might travelAnd I seeAll the joy that is recoveredSee the young boy by the river sideHe throws a stick to the other sideIt carries with the rising tideSometimes we might reach too high

Heart and soulMy soul sisterGot that special part of meSuch sweet love and deep devotionWho would tame what's wild and free?

Loving heart so wild and freeWho could chance what's wild and free? Sparks Might Fly Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: I cannot stop this child from touching meI see not fault in watching her bloomShe knows where fire begins and where sparks might flyYet I feel she may be consumed.

She done turns on the B stageShe shook hands when the shoe fitI wanna know how the land liesI'll let you in on a secret.

I did not steal away when love rode byI did not let myself be unkindIt's so heard to say where love meets lustI often think I'm losing my mind.

I trade notes with the press leagueThey send back their suggestionsI wanna know where I come fromBut all I get are directions.

Chorus

I can't get started, can't get painWhat's wrong?Big ideas, the find intentionsThey're all goneIt takes two flagons of couragePounds, shillings and penceYou wind up going nowhereIt doesn't make sense.

I see my brother's face grow dark with careI spend my time avoiding his gazeI pray that God might make his dreams come trueI'd give so much to feel he's been saved.

A bright spark in the playgroundDead loss as an anchorYou don't call him a misfitHe's just stuck for an answer.

Chorus (2)

Speaking With The Angel Songwriter: Ron Sexsmith Lyrics: He don't know how to lieOr undermine youHe don't know how to stealHow to deal or deceiveSo leave him alone, set him freeCause he's speaking with the angelThat only he can see

You say he's so helplessWell what about youYou don't pull the stringsDon't you know anythingJust leave him alone, let him beCause he's speaking with the angelThat only he can see

Would you teach him about heavenWould you show him how to love the earthWould you poison him with prejudiceFrom the moment of his birth

He in the name of loveHe in the blood of the lambHe that never lays blameHe don't even know his nameJust leave him alone, let him beCause he's speaking with the angelSpeaking with the angelThe very one that spoke to you and meOh do you remember?

St. Kilda Again Songwriter: Shane Howard Lyrics:

With your famous philosophiesTied up in brown paper wrapping and stringYou stepped back through timeLike the time that you stepped throughMeant nothing at allA little bit weary and world worn and eagerFor taking some moreAnd we leaned on each other like brothersAnd fought with our backs to the wall

ChorusWe took no routine stanceWe were living' our lives by chanceRobbing Peter for PaulLosing it allMaybe I'll find you one Saturday nightIn St. Kilda again

We were wrong the world didn't endBetween there and hereThought it's still looking shaky and wornDid you give up your dreamingBelieving time finds a price for us allBut time is an enemy, patient and cleverAnd way beyond our controlWhen you run out of timeIt's funny but money can't talk at all

Chorus

When the world turned roughAnd betrayed your trustAnd they left you out in the coldIn the deafening silence

A man is an islandWhen he's out on his ownA little bit weary and world wornNot eager for talking anymoreHey brother what happenedTo standing and fightingWith our backs to the wall

Chorus

Stand Up Songwriter: Danny O'Reilly/Mary Black Lyrics:

I've been searchingThrough other people's wordsLooking for directionI've been tryingTo get into their worldsWithout satisfactionSo don't go changingYour troubled mind againYou gotta make decisionsDon't go waitingOn middle ground whenIt's not a safe position

ChorusThough you've lost all you receivedIt's not what you got it's what you believe inThough you've forgot all you needYou've got to stand upFor what you believe in

A lack of somethingIs evident againI feel I must explain'Cause I feel nothingBut frustration and painThat I can't contain

Chorus

Don't leave me behindOut of sight is out of mindPlease don't let me strayI know I'll be okay

So now I seeI've got to get off of this fence,My mind's made up now'Cause I feel freeAnd my soul can make amendsFor all this doubt

Chorus

State Of Heart Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Lyrics: Something must be doneAbout my state of heartWoke with it this morningand now it's nearly darkI don't know what to dothe blame must lie with you

Chorus:

Falling, falling, I'm falling for you.

I'm falling, falling, fallingand you're living in a glass jar

Sitting in your placeInside your window draped in laceI feel my fingers scratch the paneI don't want to fall in love againMy heart is in your handsA Prince in these love lands

Something must be doneabout my state of heartThe throne stands empty in the dawnlies empty in the darkMy heart is in your handsPrince in these love lands

Chorus

Still Believing Songwriter: Thom Moore Lyrics: Night owns my white bones butWhat's left is still sayingStrange prayers in high placesWild airs with wilder gracesBirds fly with no motionWhat draws me draws the ocean

Chorus

Down on my knees again,Still believingIn the time of reason no moreDown on my knees againStill believingPeace of mind is worth any chore

Great dreams and laid schemesJust blown down by high windsAnd strong signs from old forcesWild dogs run trackless coursesNight changes sweet mountainVain hopes need cold fountains

Chorus

Night owns my white bones butWhat's left is still saying

Chorus...

Straight As A Die Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics:

She roots out her best earrings with a combThe ones that go with her rowdy red hairWeaves her way between the plastic and the bonesLeaves all her empty evenings hanging in the air

And he don't mind that she's a short-tempered girlHe don't mind that she may soon say goodbyeHe don't mind 'cause she's got something he lovesShe's as straight as a die

She sees the men out changing the stateKnows they stoop through her eyes are half drownedHears the steeple say it's a quarter past eightMoves on in a hurry well she's a long way from town

He don't mind that she's a short-tempered girl

He don't mind that she may soon make him cryHe don't mind 'cause she's got something he lovesShe's as straight as a die

We won't get away from this eitherNo matter how hard we tryThe truth is there to catch usThe truth is going to save our lives

He's in a thrill of anticipationSo glad he bought something smallTo give her for a giftHe feels kind of sillyIn case she thinks he's having her onAll he meant wasShe's got a friend she can kiss

And he don't mind that she's a short-tempered girlHe don't mind that she soon has to fly He don't mind 'cause she's got something he lovesShe's as straight as a die

Strange Thing Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Lyrics: IOnce in a while I can smile that old smileAnd I know I'm in trouble againEven though you get older that old tap on the shoulderWill turn you again and again

Chorus

I couldn't change it, I've never arranged itThat's what the strange bit's always been

IIO give me the time and the sweet taste of wineAnd I'll tell you that story againOf the look in his eye long before all the liesand the parting began to begin

Chorus

IIIStrange thing this ol' love businessStrange thing this ol' loveStrange thing this love businessLook what love has done to us

IVO the making you cry and the saying good-byeAnd the whole damn thing is insaneEven though you get older that old tap on the shoulderwill turn you again and again

Chorus & repeat III

Summer Sent You Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: When the morning comesI gaze on you with desireWhen the morning comesmy look will be perfectly plainWhen the morning comesmy beloved oneWhen the morning comesyou'll know that we both feel the same

In the afternoonmisgivings will pale into nothing

In the afternoonwe'll know what it is to believeWhen it's afternoonand I covet youIn the afternoonI'll give you no reason to leave

Done with time and patienceI moved with the crowdLonely in my silenceand being withoutThen all in one instantstraight out of the blueOut of all its goodnessThe summer sent you

Now its evening timeand I reach for you lying beside meNow its evening timeyour kiss will be tender and sureNow its evening timejust like every timeIn the evening timeI love you as much as before

Done with time and patienceI moved with the crowdLonely in my silenceand being withoutThen all in one instancestraight out of the blueOut of all its goodnessThe Summer sent youAll in one sweet instantstraight out of the blueOut of all its goodnessThe Summer sent you

Tearing Up The Town Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: A shimmer or a shudder, a sentence or a shriekWhat other languages do we speak?I don't know what the answer is, but fair dues to youA local lack of wisdom never stopped your being true

A drummer in the basementA rhythm - roll at each hand's turnFinding one thing you can believe inCould seem like so much workYou've heard the cry beforeUp and away we shall goTearing up the townTearing up the town

Hurry to dinner, son, the heat is onYour daddy's in the oven and your mamma, she's goneShe went down to the clinic, but the news was not goodThey told her it was nothing much, but she'd had quite enough

The ruins of a household, a loverboy who sits and stares"No, No" she cried, "I can't take it, I'm gonna go out somewhere"You've heard the cry beforeUp and away she goesShe's tearing up the townTearing up the townTearing up the town

Now we're really with it, comrades, now we're setBen Dolan's right behind us with the castanetsIt 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

Hey, look at them couples linking through the rainy streetsSomeplace to be in love, the best there'll ever beOh sister sadness, get yourself behind meOh brother badness, why must you deny me?It doesn't matter where I've goneI'm on the run like everyoneTearing up the townTearing up the townWe're tearing up the town The Broom of The Cowdenknows Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement The Black Family Lyrics: How blithe each mom was I to seeMy lass come o'er the hillShe skipped the burn and ran to meI met her with good will

Chorus

Oh the broom, the bonny, bonny broomThe broom O' The CowdenknowesFaen would I be in my aen countryHerding her father's ewes

She neither herded ewes nor lambswhile the flock asleeping layShe gathered in the sheep at nightAnd cheered me all the day

Chorus

It's hard that I should banished beGang oe'r lea and moorBecause I loved the fairest lassThat e'er on earth was born

Chorus

Adieu ye bonny ewes adieufarewell all pleasures thereTo wander by her side againIs all I crave or care The Circus Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: The sky collapsed around us, You didn't seem to careI hailed you through the raindrops, You weren't even there.

I juggle with the breakfast, You fret behind the sheets I want you to be steadfast, You want to be released.

CHORUS:Oh my pretty darling, Where did we go astrayOh my pretty darling, I thought you'd come to stay.

We're all dollied up for the circus, Oh isn't it grandWe're laughing, jumping and kissing, We're beating the band.

I've got no more smiles to win you, No tricks to turn your headWhen love cannot continue, There's not much to be said.

CHORUS

It's all cut and thrust at the circus, And maybe makes

threeYou're twisting my words into serpents, I'm down on my knees.

Oh my pretty darling, I thought you'd come to stayI thought you'd come to stay, I thought you'd come to stay.

The Crow On The Cradle Songwriter: Carter Lyrics: The sheep's in the meadowThe cow's in the cornNow is the time for a child to be bornYou'll laugh at the moon and you'll cry for the sunAnd if it's a boy he'll carry a gunSang the crow on the cradle

And if it should be that this baby's a girlNever you mind if her hair doesn't curlWith rings on her fingers DNA bells on her toesA shadow above her wherever she goesSang the crow on the cradle

The crow on the cradleThe black on the whiteSomebody's baby is born for a fightThe crow on the cradleThe white on the blackSomebody's baby is not coming backSang the crow on the cradle

Bring me my gun and I'll shootthat bird deadThat's what your mother andfather once saidA crow on the cradle what can we doThis is the thing I must leave up to youSang the crow on the cradle

The Dimming Of The Day Songwriter: Richard Thompson Lyrics: This old house is falling down around my earsI'm drowning in a river of my tearsWhen all my will is gone you hold me swayI need you at the dimming of the day

You pull me like the moon pulls on the tideYou know just where I keep my better side

What days have come to keep us far apartA broken promise or a broken heartNow all the bonnie birds have wheeled awayI need you at the dimming of the day

Come the night you're only what I wantCome the night you could be my confident

I see you on the street in companyWhy don't you come and ease your mind with meI'm living for the night we steal awayI need you at the dimming of the dayI need you at the dimming of the day

The Fog In Monterey Songwriter: Thom Moore Lyrics: Some days the fog in Monterey comesBlowing from the grove above, and then tears awayThe drifting patches lift and fold

Then sunlight cuts them white and coldIn Monterey -- fog comes, oh, thenIt tears away

A heart sick lover comes to stay;She leaves the one she loves behind,And then tears away.She walks the hill in sudden wonder;Is she dead or just undone?She's lost her way -- love comes, oh, thenIt tears away

Some nights this girl in MontereyLies dreaming in her room above, then tears away:Her eyes are on her lover's face;He smiles, and she can hardly wait --Is it night or day? -- dream comes, oh, thenIt tears away

But now that morning's on its wayToo soon the dreamer's drowned in fog that tears awayThe clouds that cover MontereyCrowd by as if they're here to say"We never stay -- she comes, oh, thenShe tears away"

Some days the fog in Monterey comesBlowing from the grove above, then tears away;It comes--oh, thenIt tears away.

The Fool's Dream Songwriter: Johnny McCarthy & Pat Crowley Lyrics: I stand on the shore, a-gazingLooking out on the deep rolling seaWishing you're coming back to meReturning home across the seaBut it's only a fool's dream

My face from you memory fadedIs your mind on some other than me?You know what it's like now to be freeOr you could be still thinking of meBut it's only a fool's dream

When I am here in this strange land aloneIt is you that is always on my mindHoping that I will soon be with youComing with riches plentyReturning home across the seaTo make real our fool's dream

United we'll be foreverWith our friends all around us to seeHow we were always meant to beTo stay together you and meAnd it was never a fool's dream

A home we will build togetherIn the field overlooking the seaWhere we'll have children plentyAll will say it was plain to seeThat it never was a fool's dream

The Holy Ground Songwriter: Gerry O'Beirne Lyrics: I was born on the holy groundA running child in fields of cloverI was living in the grandeurOf my father's land

mmm...

By the side of the swirling seaI spent the days of childish wonderAnd the rocks I held in my young handsI never felt them slip away

Well the sun shone bright upon the wavesAnd the wind blew high as I was leavingAnd I sailed so far awayLooking for adventuremmm...

But I would not stay where the city streetsproclaimed so loudly man's endeavoursThough music is a pretty thingin fine companyAnd the wilderness took my breath awayI felt I had to find my wayWhere no-one ever goesmmm...

It was in the south that my new home layWith a dark eyed boy and wild horsesWith humming birds and roses there in old Mexico

There the winds of change they blew so farOf liberty and revolutionAnd it seemed that each man heard in his breastthe drumming of a nationmmm...

Repeat the first verse

The Holy GroundTraditional. Arr. Jimmy Crowley / Mary Black

Lyrics:

Farewell my lovely Johnny,a thousand times adieuYou are going away from the holy groundAnd the ones that love you trueYou will sail the salt seas overAnd then return for sureTo see again the ones you loveAnd the holy ground once more

You're on the salt sea sailingAnd I am safe behindFond letters I will write to youThe secrets of my mindAnd the secrets of my mind, my loveYou're the one that I adoreStill I live in hopes you'll seeThe holy ground once more

I see the storm a risin'And it's coming quick and soonAnd the night's so dark and cloudyYou can scarcely see the moonAnd the secrets of my mind, my loveYou're the one that I adore And still I live in hopes you'll seeThe holy ground once more

But now the storms are overAnd you are safe and wellWe will go into a public houseAnd we'll sit and drink our fillWe will drink strong ale and porterAnd we'll make the rafters roarAnd when our money it is all spent

You'll go to sea once moreYou're the one that I adoreAnd still I live in hopes that you'll seeThe holy ground once more

The Land Of Love Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics:

I saw you in the reeds by the riverLooked to me like you were having funCan't decide if I was only dreamingI know you'll tell me all when I comeI'm passing through the pearly gatesI don't know why I feel so goodI'm entering a far better placeThey tell me it's the land of love

I wish that you'd been thereTo see the horsesYou would not believe how they dancedThe meadow seemed on fireWith their playingAnd me I just stood there entranced

I'm passing through the pearly gatesI don't know why I feel so goodI'm entering a far better place'Cos I'm living in the land of love

And if I do ever findWhat it is that you seekYou can bet that I'll keep you informedIt's only just after all'Cause in times of uneaseYou were always on hand to keep me warm

A woman sits and stares into the distanceHer hands sitting pretty on her kneesShe gazes on the view before herShe wonders what goes on behind the treesThere's so much going on behind the trees

She's passing through the pearly gatesShe can't say why she feels this goodShe's entering a far better placeShe's living in the land of loveAn angel in the land of loveShe's so happy in the land of loveLet's go to the land of love

The Loving Time Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: It reads like a fairytaleand that's what it wasYoung man in his primeyoung girl from the crossThe most perfect of strangersand then the night closed inand the holy ground took care of everything

Now she was a fine oneand he was a handsome manOne look was enoughand away they ranThey spend many happy hoursand then the night closed inand the holy ground took care of everything

Oh what's the use in complainingIn for a penny in for a pound

I remember the loving timeand nothing else really counts

And I recall the promise they madeWith a faith I can but admireThat she'd be the one he adoredand he'd be her hearts desire

It didn't come true in the endthey went their separate waysHe couldn't change what he wasshe wasn't ready to waitThey couldn't live in the daylightthey let the night close inand the holy ground took care of everything

I remember the loving timeand nothing else really counts The Moon And St. Christopher Songwriter: Mary Capin Carpenter Lyrics: When I was young I spoke like a child, And I saw with a childs eyesAnd an open door was to a girl, Like the stars are to the skiesIt's funny how the world lives up to all your expectationsWith adventures for the stout of heart, And the lure of the open spaces.

There's two lanes running down this road, And whichever side you are onAccounts for where you want to go, And what you are running fromBack when darkness overtook me, On a blindman's curve.

CHORUS:

I relied upon the moon, I relied upon the moonI relied upon the moon and St. Christopher.

Now I've paid my dues 'cause I have owed them, But I've paid a price

sometimesFor being such a stubborn woman, In such stubborn timesI have run from the arms of lovers, I have run from the eyes of friendsI have run from the hands of kindness, I have run just because I can.

Now I've grown and I speak like a woman, And I see with a woman's

eyesAnd an open door is to me now, Like the saddest of goodbyesWell it's too late for turning back, And I pray for the heart and nerve. CHORUS: (repeat chorus)

I relied upon the moon, I relied upon the moonI relied upon the moon and St. Christopher to be my guide.

The Motorway Song Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement The Black Family Lyrics: Chorus

They're going to build a motorwayThrough me back gardenNo one can explain why I came to be chosenThey're going to build a motorwayThey're ripping up the treesSoon the lorries will be zooming throughMe cabbages and peas

The brother lives in Lilac GroveIt's just across the streetI've not seen him for weeksWe always used to meetAnd have a pint or two at Paddy LowesIt's just a heap of rubble nowThe pawn shop's disappearedAnd so's the barbers where we always used to goWell I dunnoThese noisey great machines are workin' nonstopAnd funny things are growin'And it looks as though the bomb's dropped

The bulldozers are closin' in nowOn me back gardenNo one can explain why I came to be chosenThe bulldozers are closin' inThey've ripped up all the treesSoon the lorries will be zooming throughMy cabbages and peas

I don't go out much any moreCan't find me way aroundWind nearly knocks me downThere's tunnels undergroundAn' just to get about from place to placeIs like a bleedin' steeplechaseDay an' night the traffic flowsIt's best to plug your ears and hold your noseWell, I supposeI'm better off than some,don't think I'm just sourI'm grateful for the grandstand view I'm gettingOf the rush hour

They've built and eight lane motorwayThrough me back gardenNo one can explainWhy I came to be chosenThey've built an eight lane motorwayThey've ripped up all the treesnow the lorries zoom where once I grewMe cabbages and peas

The Real You Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics:

Your hands are cold loverWhere have you been?You don't need persuasionYou just need a sinWe can differThought the hours of the nightThat's no big thingAh but give me one embraceAnd I'll stop all my talking

The real you is there to seeThe real you is the one for meAll through this rocky rideLets do our bit in this full tide

Life gets so serious

There's no time to playI don't want any blessing'Cause I spy you headed my wayI could carve your nameDown on a stoneThat's no big thingAh but when I see your faceThere's no need for talking

The real you is there to seeThe real you is the one for meAll through this rocky rideLets do our bit in this full tide

I was lost in a fogLiving in a world I never knew aboutNow I'm standing in a placeAnd heaven's all aroundThe shadows have all washed outYeah the shadows have all washed out

Oh what paradise is thisThe words of welcome on your lipsThe stamp of certaintyIn all your stepsYou're here to save me fromThis slow death

The real you is there to seeThe real you is the one for meAll through this rocky rideLets do our bit in this full tide

The real you is there to seeThe real you has the best for meGods loves even the poorest lifeSo let's do our bit in this full tideIn this full tide The Shadow Songwriter: Donagh Long Lyrics: And it's over nowThe guns have flowedThe nightmare flashedOn a cradle roadAs the guilty rain came downNo child to holdThrough anxious fearsNo gentle handTo catch the tearsThat soak this ancient ground

The smile that breaks so gentlyBelies a troubled headLike a voice that holds the secretsOf the life you might have ledEyes with pale indifferenceIn danger and in graceBut the glance that knows the death-knellLeft its shadow on your faceIn the deep enduring darknessAs your loyal friends go downTouched by the violent crown'Til their hunter's hunted down

Chorus

The web is slowly wovenThe endless dreamers shed,In the dawn the curfew is brokenOn the Sunday morning's dead.Centuries of thunder

Take the Castle in the floodTo the cold night air of LondonWhere you hands are bound in blood.Mid winter deepenedAs the parting turned insideA thousand times you criedBut the shadow never died.

And it's over nowThe guns have flowedThe night mare flashedOn a cradle road.As the guilty rain came down.No child to holdThrough anxious fearsNo gentle handNo graceful yearsJust bitter ancient ground.

But it's over now

The Thorn Upon The Rose Songwriter: Julie Matthews Lyrics: Its taste was sweet like summer wineThe heart that beats in double timeSo he waltzed right in and bowled you overAnd you're still reeling from the feeling when he's goneThe door is closed the lock is turnedAnd all the memories and letters have been burned

Chorus

So when you pick the handsome flowerDon't forget the thron upon the roseIt's cut is deep and the scar lasts foreverIt follows love whereever love goes

Just how we fall it's hard to knowWhen what we feel we seldom showSo we show the parts we feel are bestWe squirm around the edges trying to cover up the restAnd you think you know him and he thinks the sameWhen underneath it all it's just a crazy guessing game

Chorus

Win or lose it's just the sameTears of joy tears of painThey're hand in hand they come as oneYou'll never see the moon without the promise of the sunFor all the bruises for all the blowsI'd rather feel the thorn than to never see the rose

Chorus...

The Urge For Going Songwriter: Joni Mitchell Lyrics: Well I woke up today and found frost perched on the townIt hovered in a frozen sky and gobbled summer downAnd when the sun turned straight and cold and shiverin'Trees are standing in a naked rowI get the urge for going and I never seem to go

I had someone in the summer time with summer coloured skinAnd not another one in town my darling's heart could winAnd when the leaves fell tumbling down and bully winds did rub their

facesin the snowHe got the urge for goin and I had to let him go

Chorus

Well he got the urge for goingWhen the meadow grasses are turnin' brownSummer time is a fallin' downWinter's closing in

And the warriors of winter gave a cold triumphant shoutAll that stays is dying and all that lives is getting outYou see the geese in chevron flight a flapping and a racing on before the

snowThey've got the urge for going and they've got the wings to go

Chorus

I'll pile the fire with kindlin' and pull the blankets to my chinI'll lock the vagrant winter out and bolt my wanderin' inI'd like to call back summertime and let her stay for just another month or

soBut she's got the urge for goin, and I'll have to let her go

Chorus...

The Water is WideTrad. Arranged by Mary Black

Lyrics:

IThe water is wide, I can't cross o'erAd neither have I wings to flyGive me a boat that can carry twoAnd we shall row, my love and I

IIFor love is gentle, and love is kindThe sweetest flower when first it's newBut love grows old and waxes coldAnd fades away like morning dew

IIIThere is a ship and she sails the seaShe's loaded deep as deep can beBut not as deep as the love I'm inI know now how I sink or swim

Repeat II then I

There Is A Time Songwriter: Johnny Duhan Lyrics: There is a time in life it seemsFor believing in dreams, for me it's goneAnd though I realize todayDreams are empty anyway, I still feel wronged.

Chorus

I felt cheated when you went awayBut not as defeated as I felt the dayYou came back and we found so little to say.

There is a time in life I know

When we all must outgrow young idealsAnd the wisdom that we gainIs paid for with the pain I now feel.

Chorus

There is a time in life it seemsFor believing in dreams for me it's gone.

Theres A Train That Leaves Tonight Songwriter: Sinnott/Henderson Lyrics: Like a jazz refrain the midnight train is callin'Hey, you'd best go soon the late night moon is fallin'Let the nightbirds whisper to themselvesThis train pulls out at twelveHigh tides breakin' on the shores, church bell tolls

Chorus:

There's a train that leaves tonightI might just ride onNothin' here that makes me wanna stayThere's a train that leaves tonightI might just ride away

I just can't hope to tell you 'bout the stillness and the quiet'Bout the frozen fields so lonely and the train songs in the nightAbout the sounds of nothin' moving, night fields all aglowI simply got to leave you my heart cries out to go

Chorus

This Love Will Carry Songwriter: Dougie McLean Lyrics: It's a thin line that leads usAnd keeps someone from shameThe dark clouds quickly gatherAlong the way they cameThere's fear out on the mountainAnd death out on the planeThere's heartbreak and heartacheIn a shadow of the flame

Chorus

But this love will carryThis love will carry meI know this love will carry me

The strongest web will tangleThe sweetest bloom will fallSomewhere in the distanceWe try and catch it allSuccess lasts for a momentAnd failures always nearBut you look down at your blistered handsAs turns another year

Chorus 2x

So these days are goldenThey must not waste awayOur time is like that flowerAnd soon it will decayAnd though by storms we weakenUncertainty is sureLike the coming of the dawnIt's ours forever more

Chorus 3x To Make You Feel My Love Songwriter: Bob Dylan Lyrics: When the rain is blowing in your faceAnd the whole world is on your caseI could offer you a warm embrace To make you feel my love When the evening shadows and the stars appearAnd there is no one there to dry your tearsI could hold you for a million years To make you feel my love

I know you haven't made your mind up yetBut I would never do you wrongI've known it from the moment that we metNo doubt in my mind where you belong

I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blueI'd go crawling down the avenueThere's nothing that I wouldn't do To make you feel my love

The storms are raging on the rollin' seaAnd on the highway of regretThe winds of change are blowing wild and freeYou ain't seen nothing like me yet

I could make you happy, make your dreams come trueNothing that I wouldn't doGo to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love

Treasure Island Songwriter: John Gorka Lyrics: O love is never easyIt's almost always out of your wayIt's not the path of least resistanceIt's not some words you get to sayIt's a stream running up a mountainIt's a wave rolling out from the shoreWish I could say I never felt that way before

I have a friend who's lonelyShe is chasing after her dreamsAnd she is the one and onlyOne who knows how hard it could be

Chorus:

There's a treasure on her islandBuried in the city of newsWish I could say we didn't have that much to lose

Yeh one friend tried to end itHe could not see the good in his lifeIn his mirror or his pocketAnd his hopes had come down like a knife

It's a stream running up a mountainIt's a wave rolling out from the shoreWish I could say I never felt that way beforeThere's a treasure on these islands

Trespass Shoes Songwriter: David Gray Lyrics: When I see you comingIn your trespass shoes

Hear the song you're hummingHow can i refuseWith your half drunk bottleAnd your slurring tongueSinging sentimentalDon't it always make me feel so young

Been aloneWe've been togetherStood at toe to toeGetting older doesn't matter when lights down lowWhen the push comes down to shovingWhen the four winds blowAin't nobody ever loved me like you do

Now my heels are snaggingOn these pavement stonesDays and nights are draggingTill I get you homeWith your four o'clock shadowand your cowboy songsSinging sentimentalDon't it always make me feel so strong

Been aloneWe've been togetherStood at toe to toeGetting older doesn't matter when lights down lowPush comes to shove and worse for betterwhen the four winds blowAin't nobody ever loved me like you do

With your forehead furrowedAnd your facts all wrongOh so temperamentalOh but baby when it's said and done

Been aloneWe've been togetherStood at toe to toeGetting older doesn't matter when lights down lowPush comes to shove and worse for betterOnly goes to show when the four winds blow

Been aloneWe've been togetherStood at toe to toeGetting older doesn't matter when lights down lowPush comes to shove and worse for betterOnly goes to showAin't nobody ever loved me like you doAin't nobody ever loved me like you doAin't nobody ever loved me like you do

Trying To Get The Balance Right Songwriter: Johnny Duhan Lyrics: We don't always live in harmonyAnd often there are times when we are enemiesI fight with you, and you fight with meTrying to get the balance right.

Sometimes we cause each other painSometimes our wills are not the sameAnd often we tire of the strainTrying to get the balance right.

Chorus

Like a circus pairHight up in the airWorking on their actWe need that kind of pact

High above the ringWatch them balancingSee how they uniteWe too can get it right.

We don't always seem to get alongAnd one of us often acts too strongSometimes we find we're goin' wrongTrying to get the balance right.

Chorus

We don't always live in harmonyAnd often there are times when we are enemiesBut I love you and you love meWhen we get the balance rightWhen we get the balance rightWe can get the balance right.

Turning Away Songwriter: Dougie McLean Lyrics: Chorus

In darkness we do what we canIn daylight we're oblivionOur hearts so raw and clearAre turning away, turning away from here

On water we have walked like the fearless childWhat was fastened we've unlocked revealing wondrous wildAnd in search for confirmationWe have jumped into the fireAnd scrambled with our burning feet through uncontrolled desire

Chorus

There's a well upon the hill from our ancient pastWhere an age is standing still holding strong and fastAnd there's those that try to tame itAnd the carve it into stoneAh but words cannot extinguish itHowever hard they're thrown

Chorus

On Racherie they have worked with their island dreamsBy Lough Cleggan they have nourished in the mountain streamsAnd in searching for acceptanceThey have given it awayOnly the children of our childrenKnow the price they had to pay

Chorus

Vanities Songwriter: Noel Brazil Lyrics: Big bad man's law doesn't carry much swayWhen you come around hereYou can still scratch my backAnd I can still change sidesDon't carry no torch 'til you have it in typeThat I'm doing okayIt's only one man's outlookIt could be one more lie

Look at it closelyCounterfeit mostly

Yesterdays's brushworkUsing yesterdays' paintAnd everything that I believeAnd every note that you receiveThey're just vanities to you

Hear that Liverpool wind as I'm making my wayFor the very last timeIs this a resurrection?And do you really care?I can't relish no kiss 'til I happen to hearYour honeycomb nounsLet you down so oftenI'll do the same again

Look at it closelyCounterfeit mostlyYesterday's storiesIt's the same all over the worldAnd everything that I believeAnd every note that you receiveThey're just vanities to you

Busy little bodies have a story to tellEven if it goes against the grainTiny little seeds have got an ocean to swellBut who am I to rock the boat

And everything that I believeAnd every note that you receive

Look at it closelyCounterfeit mostlyYesterday's brushworkUsing yesterday's painLook at it closelyCounterfeit mostlyYesterday's storiesIt's the same all over the world

What Does It Matter Songwriter: David Gray Lyrics: What does it matter if the sun don't riseIt's midnight forever in my Jimmy's eyesWhat should it matter if it comes on to springWhen I'm finding winter in everything

Lived in this cold wind city all of my lifeWalking around still looks the sameSame people coming and goingIt doesn't feel rightSee it all nowFrom so far away

All of the wisdom that I held so highShining and useless as this April skyThe hedgerows are singing and it comes on springBut I'm finding winter in everything

Lived in this cold wind city all of my lifeWalking around still looks the sameSame people coming and goingIt doesn't feel rightSee it all nowFrom so far away

So what should it matter if the earth may slideSky break in pieces or the stars collideThe little of sense left in this world or oursMy Jimmy took with him in the wee small hours

Lived in this cold wind city all of my life

Walking around still looks the sameSame people coming and goingIt doesn't feel rightSee it all nowIt's so far away

I'm finding winter in everythingI'm finding winter in everything

Wheel The Perambulator Songwriter: Traditional. Arrangement The Black Family Lyrics: Well now we've got the babyAnd what a babe she isHer eyes are green, she's quite a queenWe call her pretty LizAnd every night when I get homeMe wife she says to meGet the perambulator JohnAnd don't go far away

Chorus

Wheel the perambulator JohnWheel it nice and slowDon't ged riled, mind the childCareful as you goWhen you turn the corner JohnWhen you cross the roadJust cock your front wheels up a bitOr over goes the load

Last time I took the baby outIt was in the pramI turned the bloomin' thing upside-downI don't know where I amI cracked the baby's headAnd I took a piece off her noseAnd now I daren't go homeFor fear of my wife Rose

Chorus

The other night when we went outWe left the babe behindI said to me wifeI think you're very kindBut as we were awalkin' alongWe met with Mrs GrayShe had the perambulatorAnd she was goin' our way

Chorus

Repeart first verse

Chorus

Who Knows Where The Time Goes Songwriter: Sandy Denny Lyrics: Across the evening skyAll the birds are leavingBut how can they knowIt's time for them to go?Before the winter fireI will still be dreamingI do not count the timeFor who knows where the time goes?Who knows where the time goes?

Sad deserted shore

your fickle friends are leavingAh, then you knowIt's time for them to goBut I will still be hereI have no thought of leavingYou know I have no thought of timeFor who knows where the time goes?Who knows where the time goes?

And I am not aloneWhile my love is near meI know it will be soUntil it's time to goSo come the storms of winterAnd then the birds in spring againI do not fear the timeFor who knows where the time goes?Who knows where the time goes?

Wildest Dreams Songwriter: Eileen Laverty Lyrics: I said I'd win the race and you were there to cheer meThought I'd all the answers but only you would hear meTried to fight the system and you stood by my sideAlways at the finish line with your arms open wide

ChorusIn my wildest dreams, never thought I'd do itIn my wildest dreamsYou believed in me, you believed in meEven in my wildest dreams

I didn't always feel the rhythmAnd some people let me downBut still you kept a steady paceAnd walked me through the townAnd others cheered and others laughedAnd I wrestled with my prideWhen the world had left me coldYou were by my side

Chorus Without The Fanfare Songwriter: Mick Hanly Lyrics: I know it's the same old song I'm singingBut this time these words are just for youThat's the only thing that's newI know that I've sung about a millionBorrowed lines and phrases from a fewThis one's till as good as newWithout the fanfare I love you

By day I move words around like flowersI deliver by the afternoon"Cause the piper calls the tuneToday I made full use of the hoursI explored the smallest avenueAnd that feeling still came throughWithout the fanfare I love you

Sure I've lost my way sometimesBut I've had to paySometimes I've gone completely overboardMoved a million phrases round, tried to make them leave the groundStill the only line that's soaredBidding all the rest AdieuSounding still as good as newWithout the fanfare I love you

Hello, do I still have your attention?I forgot to mention thanks again from the captain and the crewAnd so without the sweet perfume or rosesI hope you can still believe it's trueStripped of all that much adoWithout the fanfare I love youWithout the fanfare I love you

Wonder Child Songwriter: Jimmy McCarthy Lyrics: This child he means the world to me, There is no more enchantedA child can take this place of ruin, And magically enhance it.

I see him in a golden room, With the book of life before himStrange instruments upon his charts, And the crystal glow inside him.

He's your Wonder Child, And my dreams come trueYou've searched all your life, I see him now flying over the universe.

This child will build a violin, One will follow the traveller's loveAnother will the bow apply, To reach the one above.

I see her in a golden room, With the moon and stars above herHer simple smile is Heaven's gate, With the Queen of all beside her.

She's your Wonder Child, And my dreams come trueYou've searched all your life, I see her now flying over the universe.

Your Wonder Child, And my dreams come trueYou've searched all your life, I see them now flying over the universe.

Your Love Songwriter: Danny O'Reilly/Mary Black Lyrics:

How can I say what I feel?When I turn around you're not hereI know it's my time to leadBut the emptiness inside leaves me weak

ChorusSo now I see now you've been freedYou'll always be near like you were all those yearsAnd now I breathe the life you gave'Cause I've learned from the bestAnd I've always been blessed with your love

We gathered round for you last breathTalked with you while you sleptSomehow I know you'll be all rightThe perfect end to a perfect life

Then in a moment it all becomes so clearI want so much to tell youBut you're no longer here

Chorus

So now I see now you've been freed

That you'll always be near like you were all those yearsAnd now I breathe the life you leave 'Cause I've learned from the best

And I've always been blessed with your love