O’REILLYS LAMENT -Original by Bernadette O'Neill
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[Chorus]
Will you walk a hundred miles with me , a hundred miles and more.
For I am going south to stand beside the Braithreachus na hEireann.# Irish men and Irish woman walk together proud and strong, For the freedom of our children is enough to lead us on.
[verse 1]
From beyond the Sperrin mountains, the glens of Donegal.
From the mighty Foyle’s embankments and the hills of Pomeroy From the shores of the sweet Lagan and the little town of Toome, every village ever city came to walk the Dublin Road.
[Verse 2]
Two long night nights we walked in silence, two long day we travelled low.
Along the ancient stonewall and beneath the spring headgerow.
From the distance came a rider bathed in sweat both horse and he, Retreat, retreat! they have us captured and tonight you all must flee.
[Verse 3]
On that Easter Sunday morning, cold and tired and without hope, Slowly now we walk in silence to the fork along the road.
But the RIC##were waiting, sure we had no place to go.
So in Crumlin Rd we’re shackled, not for us the glorio.
[Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Scattered now like grains in springtime on the fields so fair and
green, Are the many fallen heroes and a chance that might have been. How many more will have to follow, Plunkett Pierce and Connelly In our quest to be united and our journey to be free.
# Brotherhood of Ireland
## Royal Irish Constabulary
Smoke is rising - Original by Sile Neil
[Verse 1]
Smoke is rising it reaches high
We heed the tiding and breathe a sigh
The engine’s ready, we shuffle forth
The intention to reach the shore
[Chorus]
For just like the garden, we all need tending
And like a hanging hinge, better for the mending
Sweet as the fairytale, holds a perfect ending
Just like the garden, we all need tending
[Verse 2]
The road is widening, from furrowed lines
Feel all unwinding, farewell deadlines (farewell deadlines)
Work day is over, it’s all in the past
Like shipwrecked sailors, feet are cast in sand
[Bridge]
Just as the earth needs the sun
So too the old need the younger ones
Even the fox in her den
Even your boss in the very end
We all need tending
[Verse 3]
The smoke is rising, the fireside
Is mesmerising
We breathe a sigh
Anachain Tuireann/The Woodford Whistler - Zoe Conway/Traditional
Mouth Music - Traditional
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
dance to your shadow when it's good to be livin' lad dance to your shadow when there's nothin better near ye dance to your shadow when it's good to be livin' lad dance to your shadow when theres nothin better near ye
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin hin haradala
hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin haradala ho
there are tunes in the river otter pools in the river water pools in the river and the river calls him there are tunes in the river otter pools in the river water pools in the river and the river calls him
hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin haradala ho
there are tunes in the river otter pools in the river water pools in the river and the river calls him there are tunes in the river otter pools in the river water pools in the river and the river calls him
hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin haradala ho
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
Ho Ro Haradala Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
Ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha
Ha ha ha, ha ha ha
Ha ha ha, ha ha ha
Ha ha ha , ha ha ha
There are tunes the river calls him
There are tunes the river calls
There are tunes the river calls him
There are tunes the river calls
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Ho Ro Haradala
Hindye Handan
Please don’t … take 2 - Original by Sile Neil
[V1]
When I was just a little girl, I didn’t dream of diamonds or of pearls
Big diamond rings well they didn’t mean a thing
When I was just a little girl
[V2]
My sister she looked just like me, but our minds they were as different as could be
At night she dreamed of wedding bells, she’d planned the day since she was twelve
My sister didn’t think like me
[Chorus]
Oh So please don’t ask me to marry you, it’d be a thing we’d surely rue
Don’t make me wear a smile or drag me up that aisle
Please don’t make me say I do
[V3]
My sister and I weren’t the same, she played a strange cat and mouse game
She laid her trap in which to catch her prey
And then make him ready for the wedding day
[V4]
Good fortune it came for my sis, just last year she found her wedding bliss
My family longed to learn, when would it be my turn
I said I’d like to give my turn a miss
[V5]
All the while thinking marriage such a curse, holding tightly to my heart and to my purse
Well along came this guy, I thought mmm, me oh my
Holy Moly take me to the church
[Final chorus]
Please won’t you ask me to marry you, it’d be a thing we’d never rue
Oh make me wear a smile, and drag me up that aisle
Please won’t you make me say I do
Oh make me wear a smile, go on drag me up that aisle
Please won’t you make me say I do
Saoirse are Anthony O'Neill (Guitar, fiddle, vocals), Sile Neil (Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin), Kerry McManus (Vocals, accordion, whistle) and Bernadette O'Neill (Vocals, bodhran, mandolin)
We were delighted to have the wonderful talents of Robyn Payne, Stephen O'Prey, Damien Neil, Declan O'Neill, George Betrumlis and William Hutton adding colour and flavour to this new CD!