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WAKE SONG
Words & Music Colum Sands, Elm Grove Music

I was talking in my sleep about a wake.
"I'm sorry for your trouble now," says I.
I awoke and thought of all the things we say
At the place where people come to laugh and cry.

CHORUS: "Ah, he went very sudden in the end,
But it's good to see him looking like himself,
And he never done nobody no harm,
Except, poor craythur, to himself."

Does anybody know what age he was?
"He was rightly up in years," said Miss McGrath.
"If he'd lived another fortnight I would say,
He'd have lasted two weeks longer than my da."
"That would leave him round the 90 mark," say I.
Says oul Mc Cabe, "That's not so oul at all,
For I'm coming up on 95 myself,
Sure I wonder what came over him at all." CHORUS

"Now far be it from me to be a judge
But I know that I am talking among friends.
If you ask me what it was that done the harm,
He was tryin' to burn the candle at both ends.
Ah, I didn't like the cut of him last week.
Not looking like himself at all, I fear.
Still I'm glad to see he's mended well since then.
Sure I haven't seen him look so good in years." CHORUS

Ken from Kent is feeling far from home.
He's sitting here not knowing what to think,
When someone comes and whispers in his ear,
"The corpse's brother's wondering what you'll drink."
"I suppose it's time that I was heading on,
Make room for these ones standing in the hall,
For as somebody was saying up above,
A little while will have to do us all." CHORUS

[Sung by Colum Sands on "The Note That Lingers On," 2003.]