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The sun shone brightly on the valley green She danced and played in the young spring leaves and the lark he sang a merry song for all down in the valley A shepherd kissed his love goodbye and made his way to the mountain side with his herd of goats he'd make the clime to the high and lushly meadows chorus O fear not my love for I hear you calling The stars fell to meet him soon he would be home O sleep not my love for I here you calling The stars fell to meet him soon he would be home It was high above the world he climb and his thoughts did wander far and wide to his new wed love and their baby child waiting in the valley The trail was long but he knew it well, he walked it time and time again In a month or two he'd be home again to his love down in the valley He was high upon the mountain side when the snow did fall from a clear blue sky The wind it howled a banshee cry the shepherd he was weary Beside a stone he did lay softly dreams they came to stay and the lark he sang and the sun she played For all down in the valley Text Music: Mc Caffrey/ Lindström. Arr Dublin Fair
/ COPPER KETTLE ( Beddoe )Top of Page Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coal cover with new made corn-mush and never more you'll toil my daddy, he made whiskey, and my granddaddy he did too but we ain't paid no whisky tax, since 1792 chorus you just lay there by the juniper, while the moon is bright watch them jugs a-filling, in the pale moon light build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak but don't use no green or rotten wood, they'll get you by
the smoke Faerum Top of Page Were traffic sings are long since gone a hundred miles away from home A tavern by the old main road were people use to come and go I sat down for a while to have a drink and listen to the old ones talk about the weather reminisce off how it use to be, how things were done when we were young chorus Faerum faerum fellareum faerum.. An old man next to me just had to tell the story of his life he told me when he first came to this place and off his hopes and dreams Now a days my only need is to find some peace I'll have another drink then I'll go home For I've been here since the day since I was washed up on these shores And some outlive their hopes and dreams I've still got bags unpacked They day I leave I'll leave them all behind your truly has been waiting for a breath of life from the old main road but all I ever do is reminisce off how it use to be how things were done when we were young Text/music Larsson-Almberg: Arr Dublin Fair Fisher Davie Top of Page Well he threw his net in the early morn Drinking bright and early To catch a glint of the rising sun Where are you fisher Davie and to the east in the dawning sky Drinking bright and early A ship it sailed the ocean wide in search of fisher Davie. Chorus For a fishing man can never die He just sails away No a fishing man can never die sail on sail away.
Now with the first throw of his net Drinking bright and early Three golden fishes he did catch Good on ye fisher Davie and from the ocean dept did swim Drinking bright and early a mermaid with a silver ring For old man fisher Davie Now with that ship well he did sail Drinking bright and early With mates of old from bygone days so long fisher Davie Dark nights upon the ocean wide Drinking bright and early You may see that ship a drifting by Sail on fisher Davie Text Music: Mc Caffrey/ Lindström. Arr Dublin Fair
/ Canada Top of Page Standing by my window watching the first spring rain falling. School children running their way home early evening lights reflecting Canada you've been good to me my life's been such a journey Falling through the years that have gone I still burn with a yearning Fall on through back to you chorus Mountains will fall seas run dry Deep through the ages we fly Mountains will fall seas run dry Our love will one day unite
Memories of you my love still live a life of their own Though the years have come and gone inside I still wait tomorrow Walking down quite country lanes never asking what was to come Making love in the warm summer grass O how hearts they did burn Break on through back to you Happy was the pipers song on that blue Belfast morning Down on the docks people wave their goodbyes and we parted with a promise In a month or two you'd follow in Canada we'd break new ground But few were the days you had to your name and love was laid to ground Fall on through back to you Text/Music: Mc Caffrey/ Lindström. Arr Dublin
Fair The Ocean Top of Page I am a doggie rover with a price upon my head, so I joined aboard a skipper to see the world instead. With the stormy seas around me and a albatross on high I sailed from the prisons holes of London. I've worked to a sweat in the rain and sun and snow from the cold shores of Greenland to warm shores of Mexico. chorus Lets take a drink for the ocean and one for the skipper of The Great America Whisky galore for the ocean and to all of you lassies we bid you farewell.
Many are the years now I have spent at sea and plenty are the times I've cursed the life I've lived standing on a ten hour watch in the stormy barren seas I've longed for the prison holes of London. I've worked to a sweat in the rain and sun and snow from the cold shores of Greenland to warm shores of Mexico chorus While off the coast of Frisko my destiny I did meet when a great big bloody wave dig knock me of me feet although I go to meet my death I'm happy that I'll die away from the prison holes of London I've worked to a sweat in the rain and sun and snow from the cold shores of Greenland to warm shores of Mexico. Text/Music: Mc Caffrey/ Lindström. Arr Dublin
Fair Strange Sad Story Top of Page 'Twas early one morning by the lakes of Killarney Young Oisan was watching the summer sun rise When out of the mist a white steed came running and on his back was a maiden so fine Her clothes were adorned with gold and silver Such beauty has never been seen in this land I've come she said for the hand of young Oisan the poet of Eire's magical Isle chorus For love is a strange sad story Takes you on a timeless journey but as the river gently flows we'll one day meet the sea So fill my cup with loves strange story sweeten it with your body I fear no void nor ocean deep when I'm in your arms.
She sang him a song and the world fell to silence bewitched by the sound of her sweet golden voice and up on the steed young Oisin he mounted with the speed of the wind they left Irelands green isle For three days and nights they road over the ocean till they sighted at last the land of the young and the memories of Finn and the lakes of Killarney all faded away in the morning sun chorus The years were like days three hundred and ten and deeper in love with Niam he fell but the call of the hunt did wake his deep slumber once more to his home land he must travel again O Oisin my love now give me this promise at never set foot on Irelands fair shore but while helping some men he fell from the saddle and turned to dust by the lakes of Killmore Text/Music: Mc Caffrey/ Larsson-Almberg. Arr Dublin
Fair Now and Ever After Top of Page 'Twas a morning fair when I walked out down by Greenwood meadows. Fairies danced in the misty dew and the sun she chased the shadows. By Spencil Hill I chanced to spy, a maid so quite adoring so sweetly she sang Avondale it set my hearth a roving. chorus Love it fell out of the blue and I went tumbling after. I only want to be with you for now and ever after.
Her hair was black as a ravens wing, her eyes were deep blue oceans Skin was purest lily white she set my heart a roving. Boldly then she took my hand my love she whispered gently, come follow me to Avondale where you and I shall marry chorus Like the morning mist she danced her way down through Greenwood valley. And in the sky the sun she rose and chased the nightly shadows. I stopped to pick a rose so red to give to my true loved one, but when I looked the mist was gone and so was my lover. Text/Music: Mc Caffrey/ Lindström. Arr Dublin
Fair Red is The Rose Top of Page Red is the rose which bloomed the summer soft was its touch just like your hand Clear was the stream by where I found it Far was the mystical land and like the end of a long hot journey to sit and rest in the cool of shade Gently awake with you beside me Whispering softly my name chorus Dreams they fly , dreams they fall Some fill your heart some leave you nothing at all Dreams they fly, dreams they fall Red is the rose and in my heart it calls.
Deep was the woods through which I followed Dark was the cave through which I crawled Sad was the song of my acceptance Long was that night to dawn and like the end of a long hot journey to sit and rest in the cool of shade Gently awake with you beside me Whispering softly my name. chorus Red is the rose which blooms this summer Soft is the touch love of your hand Clear is the stream now where its planted Here is that mystical land. Text/Music: Mc Caffrey/ Lindström. Arr Dublin
Fair Summer Hill Top of Page I went down to Summer hill and laid upon my back in the green green grass and clover. I listened to the wee birds as they sang a merry song it's a hard life to be a rover. But with a fiver in your pocket and whisky in your sack Your worries leave your mind getting pissed there on your back. O the sun she shines on the rich and poor but after five years on the dole you cant be fucking sure. chorus I wish I was in Camden town at the old queens head where the pints go down With the cards the darts and a sing along to paddy on the railway. Here I am at summer hill I'm out of work no place to live and the only thing that keeps me warm is whisky on a dole day.
We'd all be bloody dead by now if it wasn't for the few who serve in the good lords army A friendly word and a bowl of soup in the cold damp London air is the price we still pay for Maggie From a room with friends and laughter to the outskirts of this life ten thousand lives to poverty for your market prices was right O the sun she shines on the rich and poor but with the devil on your back you cant be bloody sure. chorus Here I sit on summer hill the lights below me shine it's a cold October evening. Running through my poisoned brain I see my passed unwind and the path that lies before me May the road rise up to meet you whatever you may do for I ain't got no answers so I'll leave it up to you That the sun may shine on the rich and poor and after five years on the dole you still can be sure. Text/Music: Mc Caffrey: Arr Dublin Fair
Midsummer Dream Top of Page I awoke when the moon was high silver path in a shimmering light a spell to cast on this night in June now she sleeps no time to lose Through the fields where the fairies dance flowers and herbs for to form a trance and from the hill of my desire shadows grow by an open fire chorus Dance through the misty dew down by the glen Wait for the morning sun chanting your name Flowers from the mountain side float on a stream mystical northern light mid summer dream.
Their she stood by yon silver stream long black hair danced in the breeze on its banks now we did lay deep in love till the break of day chorus Curlew cried its lonesome tune to the dying off the moon I awoke by the kitchen fire 'twas all a dream love inspired
Text/Music: Mc Caffrey/ Lindström. Arr Dublin Fair
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