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Sweet Secrets
04:27
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Secrets they run around my head.
Some secrets are better left unsaid
Moving like phantoms in and out
Of the passages of my mind
Running down around and around
Drifting way up into the clouds
Smiling gently and singing low
My sweet secrets you will never know
A life once lived, is now lost to me
My mind is locked and I can’t find the key
Familiar faces are strangers now
My secrets will forever be
Running down around and around
Drifting way up into the clouds
Smiling gently and singing low
My sweet secrets you will never know
Secrets once within my grasp
Are now lost to me in the past
Thoughts they meander up and down
In the tangles of my mind
Running down around and around
Drifting way up in the clouds
Smiling gently and singing low
My sweet secrets you will never know
Smiling gently and singing low
My sweet secrets you will never know
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My Lagan Love
04:22
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Song For Aberfan
03:50
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The day is dark and the sky is low
The rain in muddy rivers flow
Down from the hills and through the town
Children look on the streets of gloom
All things bright and beautiful
All things bright and beautiful
Lambs to the slaughter on that morn
No warning for those innocents born
Oh who to blame and who did care
Will God in his mercy one child spare
All creatures great and small
All creatures great and small
Off to school now nothing to fear
Know your lines well and be of good cheer
Your voices rising clear and bright
Will pierce dark clouds and bring the light
All things wise and wonderful
All things wise and wonderful
In silent rows the children sleep
Mothers cry and fathers weep
Oh can you hear those children sing
Will our sovereign one tear bring
The Lord God made them all
The Lord God made them all
All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all
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The Pub That Shut Down
05:28
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Gather ‘round people and a tale I will tell
The worst kind of story this side of hell
The worst thing to happen to our little town
The one and only pub it shut down
Now old Mr. Joyce, a bachelor by choice
Was sick of the sound of his own voice
So in his house there was nary a sound
Save for his crying ‘cause the pub was shut down
Chorus:
The pub is shut down the pub is shut down
What shall we do now that the pub is shut down
The pub is shut down the pub is shut down
Our one and only pub is shut down
Now young Eddy and Miss Sarah Brown
Liked to go out for a night on the town
So he put on his suit and she her best gown
Only to find the pub was shut down
Now there was an old couple who lived on the downs
The happiest according to those all around
Now they are getting a divorce, the reason of course
It’s all because the pub is shut down
Chorus:
The Pub is shut down, the pub is shut down
What shall we do now that the pub is shut down
The pub is shut down the pub is shut down
Our one and only pub is shut down
Now Mr. Smith a sensitive man
Was found dead in his house by his neighbour Stan
The words that he wrote on the note that was found
“ I just can’t go on, the pub is shut down”
The pub is shut down the pub is shut down
What shall we do now the pub is shut down
The pub is shut down the pub is shut down
Our one and only Pub is shut down
The local vicar Rev. White
Would spend all his time in the pub every night
But now in the vestry he can be found
At the communal wine since the pub is shut down
Now Mrs. Jones on a Saturday would go
Grocery shopping with her husband in tow
But soon in the store he could not be found
He was off buying beer since the pub was shut down
chorus:
The pub is shut down the pub is shut down
What shall we do now that the pub is shut down
The pub is shut down the pub is shut down
Our one and only pub is shut down
Now Eddy and Sarah so people say
Now find themselves in the family way
People are saying and rumours abound
It’s all because the pub is shut down
Chorus:
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The Rusty Gate
03:10
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A rusty gate a flagstone path
Leads me to your door
I turn the key and step inside
Home safe once more
Velvet cushions, comfort giving
Cats sleeping black and white
Inside life warm and living
Outside cold dead of night
And the wind howls and the candles flicker
Mirror reflects the fire glow
Oaken table chairs of wicker
Warmth of body hand and toe
The babes are sleeping, I checked to see
It’s our time now ‘till early light
A glass of wine, some Debussy
We’ll sleep content in our bed tonight
And the wind howls, the candles flicker
Mirror reflects a fire glow
Oaken table, chairs of wicker
Warmth of body hand and toe
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10. |
The Blackleg Miner
02:46
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Jo & Barrie Glenn Hamilton, Ontario
Folk acoustic duo, comprising traditional and original songs. Originally from UK. Played in many folk combos in UK and South
Africa. Previous members of folk band
Flibbertigibbet In the late 70s Two CDs Whistling Jigs to the Moon and My Lagan Love. ( available on BandCamp) Barrie played in a soul band in the 60s before turning to folk. Toured with the Silver Creek Mountain Band while in SA
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