
Lyrics

Goodbye, Adieu
This is a song of goodbye, one of letting go
Of the grudges, the grievances, the lurking uncertainty
Where all that you’ve learned here will prove to be wrong
Now I’m packing my doubts in the words of this song
And saying goodbye, goodbye, oh goodbye Adieu
This is a song full of hope in what is yet to come
The future lies open, oh what can go wrong now
I’ve learned how to follow my nose and that while
I reach for the stars this all just passes me by
And says goodbye, goodbye, oh goodbye, Adieu
Be Patient
I’ve watched you go through ups and downs
Through eyes of blue and brown
Spent hours with you, inside your head
Working the next step out
But this time that’s all of no use
Because your heart has taken lead
That place before a love can bloom can be dark indeed
Be patient, my friend, be patient
She still has to open her eyes and see
Be patient, my friend
That’s all you can be
Well, there you stand in no man’s land
You’re watching every move
And every word that she might say
Trying to find some proof
That this is not a game to her
While to you it means so much
Fight that longing to hold her
And fight that longing to feel her
And fight that longing to touch
Be patient, my friend, be patient
She still has to open her eyes and see
Be patient, my friend
That’s all you can be
Be patient, my friend, be patient
She still has to open her eyes and see
Exactly what she has in you
And until then there’s not much you can do
But be patient
Be patient
That’s all you can be
Here I go
Some days demand more than I have
They drag me down and they leave me withered
And then I always find myself in circles, going around
The same old bends, the same old stories and can’t find my way out
Here I go, to that place where I don’t even know my name
And I can’t just hide
Some days I’m glad for what I have
I feel it all and I see it clearly
Until I go and loose myself somehwere within my brain
All feeling lost, at such a cost the circle starts again
Here I go, to that place where I don’t evenknow my name
Where doubts they grow and they smother the brightness
I know is there but I can’t seem to find
When I’m within the walls that I’ve built in my mind
Can’t knock them down
Here I go, to that place where I don’t even know my name
Where doubts they grow and they smother the brightness
I know is there, but I just can’t find
PRECIOUS
Like an old and faded photograph stored somewhere deep inside your mind
All that is, becomes a memory that can’t withstand the power of time
But what’s to come cannot comfort now
Still this you must hear
Precious are those who have walked on the path
That takes them through darkness shows them no way back
For they learn to be brave
Because when they give comfort it comes from within
With a deep understanding of how fear can win
And of how, fear can pass
There are times it washes over you just like a wave that can’t be stopped
Drags you down and starts to smother you
It can swim but you cannot
And oh my child I would comfort you
If there was a way
Precious are those who have walked on the path
That takes them through darkness shows them no way back
For they learn to be brave
Because when they give comfort it comes from within
With a deep understanding of how fear can win
And of how…
Precious are those
Precious are those
Dandelion Bouquet
It’s been two decades since I left this place
And time has stolen so many faces
My friendships they did not survive
The years that I’ve been gone
The memories of my childhood years
They come to me now that I am here
In fenceless fields, we used to play
Making dandelion bouquets
We thought it would last forever
We thought it would always stay this way
Running through fields together
Singing while making our dandelion bouquets
We climbed in trees that stretched to the sky
And stood in winds where you could catch flight
The summers always seemed so long
Stretched way beyond our dreams
A tourist now in my homeland
Back where my story it all began
I smell them each and every day
Those Dandelion Bouquets
We thought it would last forever
We thought it would always stay this way
Running through fields together
Singing and shaking with laughter
While picking the flowers in the garden
Before they are mowed down
As long as they grow, the world it is ok
As long as I know there’ll be Dandelion Bouquets
Missing you
Jimmy MacCarthy
In 1986 there’s not much for a chippie or swinging the pick
And you can’t live on love and love alone
So you sail cross the ocean away cross the foam
To where you’re a paddy, you’re a biddy, you’re a mick
Good for nothing but swingin the pick
And your best mate’s a spade and he carries a hod
Two work horses heavily shod
Oh I’m missing you I’d give it all for the price of the flight
Oh I’m missing you Under Picadilly neon
Who did you murder or are you a spy
I’m fond of the drink helps me laugh, helps me cry
Now I just drink red biddy for a permanent high
And I laugh a lot less and I’ll cry till I die
Oh I’m missing you I’d give it all for the price of the flight
Oh I’m missing you Under Picadilly neon
All you young people now take my advice
Before crossing the ocean you’d better think twice
‘cause you can’t live without love, without love alone
And the proof’s around London in the nobody zone
Where the summer is fine but the winter’s a fridge
Wrapped up in old cardboard under charing cross bridge
And I’ll never go home now because of the shame
Of the misfits reflection in a shop window pane
Oh I’m missing you I’d give it all for the price of the flight
Oh I’m missing you Under Picadilly neon
Oh I’m missing you I’d give it all for the price of the flight
Oh I’m missing you Under Picadilly neon
Lady Jane Franklin’s Lament
We were homeward bound one night on the Dee
Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
I dreamed a dream and I thought it through
About young Franklin and his gallant crew
With a 100 seamen he sailed away
To the frozen ocean in the month of May
To seek a passage around the pole
Where we poor seamen do sometimes go
Through cruel hardships they vainly strove
Their ships on mountains of ice they drove
Only the Eskimos in their skin canoe
Were the only ones who ever came through
In Baffins Bay where the whale fish blow
The fate of Franklin no man may know
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
Lord Franklin with his sailors do dwell
And now my burden it gives me pain
For my Lord Franklin I’d cross the main
Ten thousand pounds would I freely give
To know Lord Franklin, know where he lives
Flock in the field
In the year of 85 I read the bible the first time
And couldn’t understand what it said to me
So I went to church to see if the priest he could help me
Answer all my questions but he just replied
The rain will drive and thunder roar
And lightning strike those down
The fires of hell will burn the doors
Of those who question
Well, me I couldn’t quite believe that God he had it in for me
But who was I so say for I was a child
So I paid and prayed and begged and knelt before a cross instead
And did what I was told because otherwise
The God who sits upon his throne
Might turn his eye on you
Under his wrath you’re heads will roll
If you question
The rain will drive and thunder roar
And lightning strike those down
The fires of hell will burn the doors
Of those in question
I think it will suffice to say
The church it took my God away
And dragged him through the dirt of we mortals greed
They build upon the fears they breed
The doubts within our souls they need
To keep us all in check
The flock in the field
The angels stand at heavens door
And they raise their wings
And as they cry they start to sing
Uh……
Christine
Oh Christine girl, how things have changed
Now only memories remain
The empty table, the empty chair
But still his presence is everywhere, he's there
Still his presence is everywhere
And there's no seeing clearly now
No chance that time will make sense of it all somehow
Such a loss I have never known, I pray
That fate be kind, with your heart and mine
Oh and Li love, where did she go
When Mama's eyes forever closed
Who'll fill the hole that a mother fills
Who'll wipe the tears that a young boy spills inside
Who'll wipe the tears that are spilt inside
And there's no seeing clearly now
No chance that time will make sense of it all somehow
Such a loss I have never known, I pray
And there's no seeing clearly now
No chance that time will make sense of it all somehow
Such a loss I have never known, I pray
That fate be kind, with your heart and mine
The Bard Of Armagh
Oh, list to the tale of a poor Irish harper
And scorn not the strings in his old withered hand
But remember these fingers
could once move more sharper
To waken the echoes of his dear native land
How I long for to muse on the days of my boyhood
Though four score and three years
have fled by since then
Still it gives sweet reflections,
as every young joy should
That merry-hearted boys make the best of old men
At wake or at fair I would twirl my shillelagh
And trip through the jigs
with my brogues bound with straw
And all the pretty maidens
from the village, the valley
Loved the bold Phelim Brady, the bard of Armagh
And although I have traveled
this wide world all over,
still Erins my home and a dwelling for me.
And, oh, let the turf that my old bones shall cover
Be cut from the land that is trod by the free.
And when sergeant Death's cold arms
shall embrace me
Oh lull me to sleep with sweet Erin Go Bragh
By the side of my Kathleen,
my own love, then place me
And forget Phelim Brady, the bard of Armagh