- Black is the color
Черный цвет моей настоящей любви, волосы
Ее губы походят на некоторую ярмарку роз
Она - самое сладкое лицо и самые нежные руки.
Я люблю основание где, она стоит
Я люблю свою любовь, и хорошо она знает
Я люблю основание где, она идет.
Но несколько раз я шикаю, день наступит
- Black Is the Colour
Black is the colour of my true loves hair.
Her lips are like a rose so fair.
Shes got the sweetest face and the gentlest hands.
I love the ground whereon she stands.
I love my love and well she knows.
I love the ground whereon she goes.
And how I whish the day would come
- Craigie Hill
It Being In The Springtime
And The Small Birds They were Singing,
Down by Yon Shady Harbour
I Carelessly did Stray,
The Thrushes They were Warbling,
The Violets They were Charming
To View Fond Lovers Talking,
A While I did Delay.
- Falling Like a Star
I'm falling like a star, and I'm holding on for dear life
I'm about to reach the ground
I'm coming home to Earth
I've reached my town
And they said that you couldn't sit on a cloud, cause you'd fall
right through
Well how is it then, that I managed to?
- False, False
False, false hae you been to me my love
How often have you changed your mind?
But since you've gone and left me, for another fair one,
I'm afraid you are no more mine
But I would climb a tree that is too high for me
Asking fruit where there weren't any growing
I was lifting warm water from beneath the cold clay
- Garden Valley
This is really not my home
Oh where are you my lovely Johnny?
I'm afraid and all alone
There is no peace for me
I'm sitting in the stranger's room
Playing at the stranger's table
Shining empty like the moon
There is no peace for me
- Green Grows The Laurel
Green grows the laurel, soft falls the dew
Sorry was I love when parting from you
But at our next meeting I hope you'll prove true
And we'll join the green laurel and the violet so blue
I once had a sweetheart but now I have none
He's gone and he's left me to weep and to mourn
He's gone and he's left me for others to see
- I Wish You Well
The leaves fall from the trees like gold
And I tell you that I love you so
The river sings, it's time to go
What lies ahead we'll never know
And summer brings sweet memories
When we danced all night on the dusty streets
With an angel watching over me
- Lark In The Clear Air
Dear thoughts are in my mind and my soul it soars enchanted
As I hear the sweet lark sing in the clear air of the day
For a tender beaming smile to my hope has ben granted
And tomorrow he shall hear all my fond heart longs to say
I will tell him all my love, all my soul's pure adoration
And I know he will hear my voice and he will not answer me nay
It is this that gives my soul all it's joyous elation
- Never In A Million Years
If you want me I'll be at your door
And if you need me I'll be by your side
Cos every day is a long winding road
And I'll allways be here don't you know
I wonder why, I wonder why, I wonder why
I always try, I wonder why, I wonder why
- She Moved Through The Fair
My young love said to me,"My Mother won't mind
And my Father won't slight you for your lack of kind."
And she stepped away from me and this she did say
"It will not be long, love, till our wedding day"
She stepped away from me and she moved through the fair
And fondly I watched her move here and move there
And she turned her way homeward with one star awake
- Summer's Just Begun
Life is rising up
Surging forth in all directions
Every little buttercup Is reaching out to find connections
Every blade of grass Will touch the sunlight
The rain will touch the ground
Growing greener than it was before
Bees are droning by Spider silk is softly spinning
Not a cloud in the sky You know it's only the beginning
- The Lass Of Glenshee
One brught summers morning as day was a dawning
Bright phoebus had risen from over the lea
And I spied a fair maiden all down by the river
While herding her flocks on the hills of Glenshee
I stood in amazement, said I, "Pretty fair maid
If you will come down to James Town with me
There's ne'er been a lady set foot in my castle
- The Maid Of Culmore
Leaving sweet lovely Derry for fair London town
There is no finer harbour all around can be found
Where the younsters each evening go down to the shore
And the joy bells are ringing for the maid of Culmore
The first time I saw her she passed me by
And the next time I saw her she bid me goodbye
But the last time I saw her it grieved my heart sore
- The Parting Glass
Of all the money that ere I had, I spent it in good company.
And of all the harm that ere I've done,
alas was done to none but me.
And all I've done for want of wit, to memory now I cannot recall.
So fill me to the parting glass, goodnight and joy be with you all.
Of all the comrades that ere I had,
they're sorry for my going away,
- The Snows They Melt The Soonest
The snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing
And the corn it ripens fastest when the frosts are settling in,
And when the young man tells me that my face he'll soon forget,
Before we part I'll wage a crown, he's fain to follow yet.
And the snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing
The swallow flies without a thought as long as it is spring,
But when spring goes and winter blows my love then you'll be free,
- The Verdant Braes Of Skreen
As I roved out one evening fair
By the verdant braes of Skreen.
I set my back to a hawthorn tree
To view the sun in the west country,
And the dew on her forest green.
A lad I spied by Abhann's side
And a maiden on his knee
- The Winding River Roe
Some poets sing of a noble king
All of a sweetheart fair
Some tell a tale of ships that sail
With treasures rich and rare
But my humble pen still drifts again
To the scenes of long ago
Across the sea to the Benedy
And the winding river Roe
- There Were Roses
My song for you this evening
It's not to make you sad
Nor for adding to the sorrows
Of our troubled northern land
But lately I've been thinking
And it just won't leave my mind
I'll tell you of two friends one time
Who were both good friends of mine
- Where Are You
Where are you now
And who's by your side
Can't hide for a lifetime
Uncover your eyes
Wake up, in the morning
Share the sunlight shining down on us
You and me