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Green And Red Of Mayo lyrics
We went out to a weekend festival on Clare Island in August 1990
and on the boat back on a perfect autumn evening the green and red of mayo was conceived with well known Galway free-spirited minstrel jarir al-majar. It became a song about a year later
Oh the Green and Red of Mayo
I can see it still
It's soft and craggy bog lands
It's tall majestic hills
Where the ocean kisses Ireland
And the waves caress its shore
Oh the feeling it came over me
To stay forever more
Forever more
From its rolling coastal waters
I can see Croagh Patrick's peak
Where one Sunday every Summer
The pilgrims climb the reek
Where Saint Patrick in his solitude
Looked down across Clew Bay
And with a ringing of his bell
Called the faithful there to pray
There to pray
Oh take me to Clare Island
The home of Gráinne Mhaol
Its waters harbour fishes
From the herring to the whale
And now I must depart it
And reality is plain
May the time not pass so slowly
'fore I set sail again
Set sail again
The Green and Red of Mayo
I can see it still
Its soft and craggy bog lands
Its tall majestic hills
Where the ocean kisses Ireland
And the waves caress its shore
The feeling it came over me
To stay forever more
Forever more
Oh the Green and Red of Mayo
[repeat 3 times]
Copyright: jarir al-majar/l.moran/d.carton
Part of these releases
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- Track 8 on Live in Galway
- 7 Share The Darkness
- 9 I'll Be On My Way
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- Track 1 on All the Way From Tuam
- 2 You Got Me on the Run
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- Track 1 on Sing a Powerful Song
- 2 It Won't Be Tonight
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- Track 4 on To Win Just Once
- 3 Winter's Just A Dream
- 3 I Useta Lover
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