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Thread #90881 Message #3270207
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Dec-11 - 10:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Dublin Reel (Irish Descendants)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE DUBLIN REEL (from Irish Descendants)
My transcription from the recording at Spotify:
THE DUBLIN REEL
As sung by The Irish Descendants on "So Far So Good: The Best of the Irish Descendants" (2007)
1. A maiden fair, she had long dark hair, and her eyes like the darkest coal,
A taunting smile that would sure beguile and melt the hardest soul.
Dancing lightly, sprightly, she stole his heart with a twirl, that girl.
He'll not forget the night they met at a dance called the Dublin reel.
2. They walked out to the starry night and the crescent moon had a glow.
It felt so right with hands held tight and they looked on the town below.
Chancing a kiss, he missed her cheek and she pulled away this way,
To the bodhran sound for the fairy mound as they danced to the Dublin reel.
CHORUS: They were dancin' all night long,
Dancin' till the break of dawn.
They were dancin' all night long,
Dancin' till the break of dawn.
3. The dark of night turned into light and he asked what was her name.
"It matters not" was all he got as on the grass they lay.
List'nin' to stories, glories, scenes of another world, this girl,
She must have left while he soundly slept having danced at the Dublin reel. CHORUS
4. Weeks have gone and life goes on; now he's back on American shores.
Ev'ry night he relives that sight as he longs for it more and more.
Under a spell, he fell in love with a dancin' weed, it seems.
His only care is the maiden fair and a dance called the Dublin reel. CHORUS TWICE AND FADE