Song For Ireland

Song For Ireland - Liam Craig

Walking all the day by tall towers

Where falcons build their nests

Silver winged they fly

We know the call of freedom in their breasts

I saw black head against the sky

With twisted rocks they run now to the sea

Living on your western shore

Saw summer sunsets asked for more

I stood by your Atlantic sea

And I sang a song for Ireland

Talking all the day with old friends

Who try to make you stay

Telling jokes and news

Singing songs to pass night away

I watched the galway salmon run

Like silver dancing darting in the sun

Living on your western shore

Saw summer sunsets asked for more

I stood by your Atlantic sea

And I sang a song for Ireland

Drinking all the day in old pubs

Where fiddlers love to play

Someone touched the bow

He played a reel

It seemed so fine and gay

I stood on dingle beach

And cast in wild foam we got little Atlantic bass

Living on your western shore

Saw summer sunsets asked for more

I stood by your Atlantic sea

And I sang a song for Ireland

Dreaming in the night I saw a land

Where no one had to fight

But waking in your dawn

I saw you crying in the morning light

Crying where the falcons fly

They twist and turn all in your clew blue sky

Living on your western shore

Saw summer sunsets asked for more

I stood by your Atlantic sea

And I sang a song for Ireland