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Star of the County Down
05:25
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Near to Banbridge Town in the County Down
One morning in July
Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen
And she smiled as she passed me by
She looked so neat from her two white feet
To the sheen of her nut brown hair
Sure the coaxing elf, I’d to shake myself
To make sure I was standing there
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
And from Galway to Dublin Town,
No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
That I met in the County Down
As she onward sped, I shook my head
And I gazed with a feelin' queer
And I said says I, to a passer-by
"Whose the maid with the nut brown hair"?
He smiled at me and with pride says he
"That's the gem of Ireland's crown
That’s young Rose McCann from the banks of the Bann
She's the star of the County Down"
At the crossroads fair, I’ll surely be there
And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
And I’ll try sheeps’ eyes and deludhering lies
On the heart of the nut brown rose
No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
Though with rust my plough turns brown
Till a smiling bride, by my own fireside
Sits the star of the County Down
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2. |
Living Without You
03:28
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Some kind of blue
That’s what we do
Wrong is so right
Day is so night
Living without you
We can go up
Mountains of love
Cliffs overlook
Oceans of doubt
Living without you
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The moon is high
Above the mountain
Hanging in the sky
She’s hanging in the sky
And as the clouds
They part around her
She shines down in my eye
She shines down in my eye
And while we turn
She spins around us
Until the morning light
Until the morning light
I watch her face
As she is crying
And smoking in the dark
She’s smoking in the dark
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Tiocfaidh an samhradh
Agus fásfaidh an féar
Tiocfaidh an duilliúr ghlas
Ar bharr na gcraobh
Tiocfaidh mo rúinsearc
Le bánú an lae
Agus buailfidh sí túin suas
Le cumha 'mo dhiaidh
Scairt mé aréir
Ag an doras thall
Scairt mé aríst
An raibh mo rún le fáil
Dúirt a daidí liom
Nach raibh sí ann
Nó gur éaluigh sí aréir
Leis an buachaill donn
Brón ar an fharraige
Mar is sí atá mór
'
Sí atá ag dul idir mé
Is mo mhíle stór
Siúlfaidh mé na bailte seo
Agus siúlfaidh mé na róid
Agus dheamhan bean a phósfas mé
No go dtéim faoi fhód
Summer will come
Grass will grow
Green leaves will sprout
On the treetops
My true love will come
At the break of day
And strike up a tune
Out of loneliness for me
I called last night
At the house yonder
I called again
To see if my true love was there
Her father said
She wasn't around
That she eloped last night
With the brown-haired boy
A curse on the sea
Because it's so vast
It goes between me
And the one that I love
I'll walk these towns
And tramp the road
And no woman will I marry
'Til I lie in my grave
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5. |
Your Heart Wants to Go
03:03
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You are the one I wanna know
And I want you to know that I
I think about you all the time
And I think you think about me
Go where your heart it wants to
Go where your heart it wants to
Go where your heart it wants to go
You are the one I whisper to
In the night time when I can’t sleep
You hold me in your arms so tight
And I don’t want you to let go
I don’t want you to let go
I don’t want you to let go
I don’t want you to let go
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6. |
The Fairy Glen
04:05
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As I roved out upon
The green fields of the meadow
I wandered past the Fairy Glen
And somebody whispered to me
Gleann na sidhe
I saw a beauty on the breeze
Her eyes were blue as sapphire
I swear her garment was as green
As the laurel tree, as the laurel tree
Her lips were red like rubies
Her hair was black as night
Her voice like crystal waters
Running by, running by
And beauty kissed me softly
Upon my feathered brow
And I was elevated
For to fly, for to fly
There’s nowhere else on God’s green earth
That I would rather be
Than to see the mountains sweeping down
To the sea, to the sea
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Somewhere on the dark misty mountain
I have left my heart
Beating as the rain falls
Beating as the rain falls
Echos on the breeze as the birds leave
Leaves fall from the trees
Colours red and gold alive
Colours red and gold alive
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8. |
In the Winter
05:49
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In the winter I saw colour in your eyes
In your eyes
In the winter I was bleeding
My heart was breaking in the winter time
In the winter I saw feeling in your heart
In your heart
In your heart
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9. |
Pushing Up the Daisies
03:24
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Love
Is something
Not to give up
Cause soon enough
You’ll be pushing up the daisies Oh
Time
To take a moment
And think about it
And what you wanted
Cause you’ll be pushing up the daisies Oh
Before you know
Nature
Is all we know
And you can play this game called life
And I can play this game called life
And we can play this game called life
But we’ll be pushing up the daisies Oh
Before we know
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10. |
Looking
04:25
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Looking out
As I’m gazing in
I know I have sinned
I see I can’t win
And my body is falling apart
Falling apart
Looking back
As you’re gazing back at me
From an old photograph
If we talked I know we’d laugh
And then later, we’d cry ourselves to sleep
Cry ourselves to sleep
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Phantasmagoria
06:53
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The moon is high
Above the mountain
Hanging in the sky
She’s hanging in the sky
And as the clouds
They part around her
She shines down in my eye
She shines down in my eye
And while we turn
She spins around us
Until the morning light
Until the morning light
I watch her face
As she is crying
And smoking in the dark
She’s smoking in the dark
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Bróna McVittie Northern Ireland, UK
Pioneering her own brand of cosmic folk, Bróna McVittie both deftly reimagines traditional folk and crafts her own nature- inspired songs with a rich mix of folk and electronic instruments. As The Guardian describes it “You’re put in the place of a bird navigating wide open landscapes, absorbing light, space and air. This is music that takes you on its wing, and gives you fresh visions” ... more
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