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Baz Lyr Add: My Heart's Tonight in Ireland (A Irvine) (15) Lyr Add: MY HEART'S TONIGHT IN IRELAND 18 Mar 98


I heard this tonight on the radio by Andy Irvine. Can anyone help with the chords and or ABC please? I apologise in advance to all my Irish friends for the spelling of the place names but I'm sure they'd be the same with Cornish ones.

My heart's tonight in Ireland in the sweet County Clare

CHORUS: My heart tonight is far away across the rolling sea
In the sweet Milltown (? Malbake) and it's there I'd love to be
So long ago and far away but nothing can compare
My hearts tonight in Ireland in the sweet County Clare

In the town of Scarup the sun was shining in the sky
When Willie Clancy played his pipes and the tears welled in my eye
Many years have passed and gone since the times we had there
But my heart's tonight in Ireland in the sweet County Clare. CHORUS

That August in Killrush when the rain was lashing down
And our hotel was that haybarn on the outskirts of town
We were all sick and feverish and Dolan had the flu
But Johnny produced some whisky and the sun came smiling through. CHORUS

Those nights in Six Mile Bridge when the songs and music flowed
And when it came to closing time sure the lights were turned down low
And the sergeant from Killkishen he would by us all one more
And we never left that pub before the clock was striking four. CHORUS

The (? Hinch and Ennisdaimond Liskanner and Killkey)
But best of all was Milltown when the music flowed so free
Willie Clancy and the County Clare I'm forever in your debt
For the sights and sounds of yesterday are shining memories yet

My heart tonight is far away across the rolling sea
In the sweet Milltown (? Malbake) and it's there I'd love to be
So long ago and far away but nothing can compare
My hearts tonight in Ireland in the sweet County Clare
In the days of Sweeney in the sweet County Clare.

Regards Baz


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