Subject: Lyr Add: THE GREEN OF THE SHAMROCK (Kevin Collins)
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GUEST,maeve
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 12:02 PM
The Green Of The Shamrock found here:
http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/07/shamrock.htm
There is a youtube video of a performance of the song as well as two midi files and the lyrics pasted below.
The Green Of The Shamrock (Loyola Hearn) MIDI, video
See also: From An Island To An Island (Kevin Collins)
The Green of the Shamrock by Kevin Collins
My father left old Ireland so many years ago,
He left his home in Galway where the green, green shamrocks grow;
He met my darling mother on a boat to Newfoundland,
And it didn't take him long before he won her heart and hand.
They both came to this island as happy as could be,
They settled down together and raised a family;
They built a little cottage and started to combine,
The green of the shamrock with the green of the pine.
From an island to an island, from the green to the green,
They left their homes to settle in a place they'd never seen;
They exchanged the hills of Newfoundland for the ones they left behind,
And the green of the shamrock for the green of the pine.
As their family grew around them, their eyes shone bright with pride,
They'd go to church each Sunday morn, strollin' side by side;
Each evening 'round the turf fire to heaven would ascend,
The decades of the rosary for all in Ireland.
Now the years passed by so quickly and death we all must face,
We laid our loving parents in their final resting place;
Yes, they taught me to be thankful for the heritage that's mine,
The green of the shamrock and the green of the isle.
From an island to an island, from the green to the green,
They left their homes to settle in a place they'd never seen;
They exchanged the hills of Newfoundland for the ones they left behind,
And the green of the shamrock for the green of the pine.
####.... Loyola Hearn ....####
Arranged and first recorded by Dennis Kendell and Con Parsons of Me and Him (From An Island To An Island CD, ©1990).
The video above features a variant by the Bay Boys of Placentia West.
A variant was also recorded as From An Island To An Island by Kevin Collins (Long Gone Are The Days, trk#11, 2002, Sawyer Hill Productions, Placentia, NL).
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