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Brigid O'Malley (Trad.)
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Bridget O'Malley, you've left my heart shaken
With a hopeless desolation, I'll have you to know
It's the wonders of adoration your quiet face has taken
And your beauty will haunt me, wherever I go
The white moon above the pale sands, the pale stars above the thorn tree
Are cold beside my darling, but no purer than she
I gaze upon the cold moon til the stars drown in the warm sea
And the bright eyes of my darling are never on me
My Sunday it is weary, my Sunday it is grey now
My heart is a cold thing, my heart is a stone
All joy is dead within me, my life has gone away now
Another has taken my love for his own
The day it is approaching when we were to be married
But it's rather I would die than live only to grieve
Oh, meet me my darling ere the sun sets o'er the barley
And I'll meet you there, on the road to Drumslieve
Bridget O'Malley, you've left my heart shaken
With a hopeless desolation, I'll have you to know
It's the wonders of adoration you're quiet face has taken
And your beauty will haunt me, wherever I go
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The Blacksmith (Trad.)
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The Ballad of John Stoker
BY LIZZY O’CONNOR
Sixteen and a working man with lungs of dust and clay,
timber props where sunlight stops
and night replaces day.
Father taught me how to dig,
and mother how to pray.
Sister taught me how to sing
and brother how to play.
On the tenth hour of that shift,
the first day on me own,
I rode the limbers wrong side in,
thus I never made it home.
Me bones were crushed against the stone,
me heart was in the fire,
me soul was taken with the coals
for the steel, to be my pyre.
Father won't you take my hand,
Mother are you near?
Sister come thee to my side,
Brother pull me out of here.
There have been good people here
and mercy showed them light.
Of the darkness and the fear
I have seen enough this life!
In the churches of this town
and on the hillsides bare,
over scorched and broken ground
you will hear this in the air…
‘Father O let go my hand,
Mother don't you weep.
Sister do not be afraid,
Brother lay me down to sleep.’
‘Father O let go my hand
and mother don't you weep.
Sister do not be afraid,
Brother lay me down to sleep.'
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Winter
04:42
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Fear A' Bhàta (Trad.)
03:38
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Hush Little Baby (Trad.)
03:29
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LIZZY O'CONNOR London, UK
Cerys Matthews played a song from the album ‘Best Intentions’ on her show on BBC
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Lizzy O’Connor is a singer and multi instrumentalist based in London . Her works vary from conventional traditional folk through to abstract soundscapes for film and dancers. Working as a backing vocalist and instrumentalist she has toured, performed live and recorded with a talented diversity of artists
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