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Artist: Tuatha De Danann
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The Wind That Shakes The Barley
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The Wind That Shakes The Barley
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I sat within the valley green
I sat there with my true love
My sad heart strove the two between
The old love and the new one
The old for her the new that made me
Think on Ireland dearly
While the soft wind blew down the glen
And it shook the golden barley
T'was hard the woeful words to frame
T'was worse the tide that bound us
But harder still to bear the shame
Of foreign chains around us
And so I said the mountain glen
I'll seek at morning early
And join the bold united men
While soft wind shakes the barley
While sad I kissed away her tears
My fond arms 'round her flinging
When a foe man's shot burst on our ears
From out the wild wood ringing
And a bullet pierced my true love's side
A life so young spring early
And on my breast in blood she died
While soft wind shakes the barley
And blood for blood without remorse
I've taken at Oulart hollow
I've lain my true love's clay like corpse
Where I full soon will follow
Around her grave I've wandered drear
Noon, night, and morning early
With a breaking heart when ever I hear
The wind that shakes the barley
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