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Artist: Dick Gaughan
Canonical path: /dick-gaughan/song-for-ireland
Related lyric paths: 6
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Song For Ireland
Read Song For Ireland lyrics by Dick Gaughan on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Song For Ireland
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Walking all the day
By tall towers where falcons build their nests
Silver-winged they fly
They know the call of freedom in their breasts
Saw Black Head against the sky
With twisted rocks that run down to the sea
Living on your western shore
Saw summer sunsets, asked for more
I stood by your Atlantic sea
And sang a song for Ireland
Drinking all the day
In old pubs where fiddlers love to play
Saw one touch the bow
And he played a reel which seemed so grand and gay
We stood on Dingle Beach and cast
In wild foam we found Atlantic bass
Talking all the day
With true friends who try to make you stay
Telling jokes and news
And singing songs to pass the time away
We watched the Galway salmon run
Like silver darting, dancing in the sun
Dreaming in the night
I saw a land where noone had to fight
But waking in your dawn
I saw you crying in the morning light
While lying where the falcons fly
They twist and turn all in your air-blue sky
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Dick Gaughan performs "Song For Ireland", and this lyric page sits inside the Dick Gaughan catalog on LyroVerse.
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