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