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Thread #140101   Message #3218709
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
05-Sep-11 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Fields of Saskatchewan (Tip Splinter)
Subject: Lyr Req: THE FIELDS OF SASKATCHEWAN (Tip Splinter)
Beer

If it's any help here's most of it from the video. If you've got the words you can fill in the missing bits and save me extracting the audio and processing it!

Mick




THE FIELDS OF SASKATCHEWAN
(Tip Splinter)

Oh the Autumn winds are blowing across the South Saskatchewan prairie
Bringing just a hint of cold and winter still to come.
That's when my mind starts turning towards a place in Tipperary,
The green and pleasant country that used to be my home.

Now when you're far behind and the payments due, well the banks don't show much pity,
The Cullen(?) home we had to sell, we lost what we had owned.
Now I'm working in a factory in this cold and concrete city,
Time and place a million miles from the places that I've known.

When the ice and the snow seems to go on forever,
It makes me think that maybe we should quit and go back home;
But then springtime comes around again, the chance of better weather,
We could try just one more year to make it on our own.

We left Ireland seven years ago, we were going to get married,
Buy some land and build a house and raise a family.
But then two years drought and two years floods(?) and those dreams they soon got buried
Debts piled hight, the winter's snows have brought us to our knees.

Now when ...
When the ice...

[Instrumental]

The wheat fields of Saskatchewan lie golden in the sunshine
Summer breezes push the clouds across the prairie skies,
But my memory lies where Irish skies lie in the ??? springtime
Simpler times for simpler minds ????

When the ice...