Saw the first programme and really enjoyed it. A shame Brian Kennedy, like so many singers got a lot of lines wrong in the 'Isle Of Innisfree'.

One would think that with this being a documentry, going into these songs in detail, that the producers of the series would have made sure that the lyrics be exactly as written by the composer. And for the BBC, this would have been so easy to verify.

And for the record:

THE ISLE OF INNISFREE (theme of The Quiet Man)

Words and Music: Richard/Dick Farrelly
Copyright: The Peter Maurice Music Co Ltd.   

I've met some folks who say that I'm a dreamer
And I've no doubt there's truth in what they say
But sure a body's bound to be a dreamer
When all the things he loves are far away.
And precious things are dreams onto an exile
They take him o'er the land across the sea
Especially when it happens he's an exile
From that dear lovely Isle of Innisfree.

(Chorus)
And when the moonlight peeps across the rooftops
Of this great city wondrous tho' it be
I scarcely feel its wonder or its laughter
I'm once again back home in Innisfree.

I wander o'er green hills thro' dreamy valleys
And find a peace no other land could know
I hear the birds make music fit for angels
And watch the rivers laughing as they flow.
And then into a humble shack I wander
My dear old home, and tenderly behold
The folks I love around the turf fire gathered
On bended knees their rosary is told.

(New chorus)
But dreams don't last
Tho' dreams are not forgotten
And soon I'm back to stern reality
But tho' they paved the footways here with gold dust
I still would choose the ISLE OF INNISFREE.