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Thread #66584   Message #1106592
Posted By: Sorcha
01-Feb-04 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Four Country Roads (from Big Tom)
Subject: Lyr Add: FOUR COUNTRY ROADS
Four country roads, winding to a town in County Galway
Four country roads, leading to the friends I left behind
Four dusty roads, winding to the town of Glenamaddy
Four dusty roads, forever in the caverns of my mind

Once in a while
I hear the sound of music in the winter night
I see now and then
The trees where we sheltered from the rain
And once in a while
I see us walking home in the morning light
And oft are the times
I long to see my home town once again

Four roads to Glenamaddy
Four roads that drift apart
Four roads to Glenamaddy
Are the four dusty byways to my heart

One country road
Led me to the schoolhouse by the meadow
And one country road
To the churchyard where my Mum and Daddy lie
One dusty road
Where I strolled with a loved one in the shadows
And one dusty road
That led me on my journey far away

Chorus - 2nd verse - Chorus X 2 & ends
The four country highways to my heart.


http://irishlyrics.homestead.com/files/four_county_roads.txt

And, this from Mudcat:
Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree
From: GUEST,Big Tom - PM
Date: 31 Jan 02 - 07:09 AM

Wheeeeze ....
Wheeeeeze ...

Good on you for tryin', Philomena ... but you'll find it a hard market to break into. I re-recorded "Four Country Roads to Glenamaddy" as "Four Country Roads To Oul' Garvaghy (And We're Not Allowed To Walk Them)". Didn't sell damn all!

G'luck anyway!

(No clue how much of it Big Tom changed)

Your oul' friend Tom.
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=43154#639247