A Cozy Celtic Concert Series - Episode 7
This week's set list:
1) St. Anne's Reel
2) Mermaids
3) Toss the Feathers / the Blarney Pilgrim
4) Country Roads (by John Denver)
5) It Was Beautiful
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🌸 Lyrics: Mermaids (G. Gothard, W. Gothard)
The swell of the ocean, the salt of the sea
This movement and motion is foreign to me
My homeland behind, a vast distance ahead
The warnings of sailors have filled me with dread
They told me old tales of the bravest of heart
Mysterious fathoms that some men can chart
Of the ones who discover, while other men sleep
The creatures that lurk in the cool briny deep
Chorus
Oh they say in the sea
There are mermaids wild and free
Keeping watch in the storm
Guide you home, safe from harm
They will keep you safe in the storm
Storm clouds are brewing, the wind lifts to blow
Moving and tossing, the pewter waves grow
Terrible beauty, swift lightning and rain
I’m afraid for my life on the cruel raging main
Chorus
Our ship made it through with a patchwork of scars
Wreckage of wood ‘neath the stillness of stars
The horizon goes on for miles and for years
I play a sad song, but nobody hears
Daylight breaks early, there’s sighting of land
I find that I may have the strength left to stand
Their good mission over, our guardians must go
The mermaids return to the fathoms below
Chorus
Chorus
🌸 Lyrics: Country Roads (by John Denver)
Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue ridge mountains, Shenandoah river
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Chorus
Country roads, take me home
To the place where I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
All my memories gather 'round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye
Chorus
I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home, far away
And driving down the road I get the feeling
that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday
Chorus
Chorus
🌸 Lyrics: It Was Beautiful (G. Gothard)
A group of men sat ‘round the fire, telling old tales ’til the midnight hour
Along came a stumbling little girl, dancing around with a smile
Her ma came running fast in her wake, sorry kind sirs for that headache
The group of men then a plea did make - please don’t take her away
Chorus
We thought it was beautiful - oh, oh
We thought it was beautiful - oh, oh
We thought it was beautiful
Walking through an ancient space, young lads say what is this place?
Fading light through windows cold, the whole thing seems too old
But a woman there, she seems so wise, with a nice young face and lovin’ brown eyes
Lads don’t like the ancient place - but she goes there everyday
She thinks it is beautiful - oh, oh
She thinks it is beautiful - oh
She thinks it is beautiful - oh, oh
She thinks it is beautiful - oh - hey!
Climbing down from the mountains high, Danny’s father gave a tired sigh
Well me boy, that’s it I’m done, sweating all day in the sun
The mountain’s never worth the pain, climbing all day and with what gain?
His little son then a sound did make - and Danny he did say
I thought it was beautiful - oh, oh
I thought it was beautiful - oh, oh
I thought it was beautiful - oh
I thought it was beautiful - oh
I thought it was beautiful