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Ride On

Music & Lyrics by Jimmy MacCarthy (Universal Music Publishing UK)
Arranged & Orchestrated by Gloria Mulhall
Language: English.


In the words of Jimmy MacCarthy himself;

"...purely and simply, it is a song of parting. The parting of lovers, the parting of emigrants from their homeland and friends, the parting when illness or accident takes the life of a loved one ... Life is hard. Ride On."

Extract taken from 'Ride On in Song and Story' by Jimmy MacCarthy © Jimmy MacCarthy 2002. Published by TownHouse Dublin

True you ride the finest horse, I have ever seen,
Standing sixteen, one or two, with eyes wild and green,
You ride the horse so well, hands light to the touch,
I could never go with you no matter how I wanted to.

Ride on, see ya, I could never go with you
No matter how I wanted to.

When you ride into the night without a trace behind,
Run the claw along my gut, one last time.
I turn to face an empty space where once you used to lie,
And smile for the spark that lights the night
Through a teardrop in my eye.

Ride on, see ya, I could never go with you
No matter how I wanted to.