Lyr Req: Gold and Silver Days

Subject: Gold and Silver Days lyrics?
From: Irene
Date: 01 May 97 - 11:28 PM

Would anyone happen to have the words to this delightful song sung by Paddy Reilly? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Gold and Silver Days lyrics?
From: Bobby O'Brien
Date: 13 May 97 - 07:18 AM

Hi! I'm just back from holidays in Tennessee with the one and only Margo, so, this evening, I will submit all the words of this song to you here. It was recorded more recently by Philomena Begley on the album "The Two Queens" Philomena & Margo.

Subject: Lyr Add: GOLD AND SILVER DAYS (Phil Coulter)
From: Bobby O'Brien
Date: 15 May 97 - 08:26 AM

At long last here are the lyrics to Phil Coulter's fine song, "Gold and Silver Days". Sorry it took so long.

As I sit here by the fireside
I'm turning back the years.
I can hear my mother singing in the morning
As she scrubbed our shining faces
And then packed us off to school.
All too soon those days were over without warning.

(CHORUS): So sing me the songs of our gold and silver days,
Days filled with innocence and light.
Not a penny to our name,
We were happy just the same
In our gold and silver days.

In the parlour on a Friday night,
My father took the floor.
I can hear us join together in the chorus,
Singing "Just a Song at Twilight"
And "The Moon behind the Hill".
Now those voices are all silenced, gone before us. (CHORUS)

We gathered at the Daisy Field
On Sunday afternoon,
And we danced to Johnny Quigley and the Royal.
Through the years we all were scattered,
But our friends were good and true,
Always there when they were needed, always loyal. (CHORUS)

Subject: RE: Gold and Silver Days lyrics?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 05:51 AM

Can anybody supply chords to this ? It's a lovely little song by Phil , It brings back such happy memories , any help please ?

Subject: RE: Gold and Silver Days lyrics?
From: oldhippie
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 07:39 AM

As long as we're on the gold & silver.....

My kids learned the following rhyme in a Montessori school. Are there any additional lyrics?

Make new friends, but keep the old
One is silver, the other gold.

Subject: RE: Gold and Silver Days lyrics?
From: GUEST,HSA
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 07:00 AM

I have Phil Coulter singing this on a CD and he has slightly different words to the last verse:

And we'd gather at the daisy field
Sundays after Mass
I can hear the songs, the stories and the laughter
Though the years they have us scattered
The friends we made back then
Are the ones we could rely on ever after.

Chords - dead straightforward three chord trick. Maybe (if in G) with the odd A minor thrown in.

Helen

Subject: RE: Gold and Silver Days lyrics?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 07:36 AM

HSA , Can you please put the chords to it for me .It's for a friend ,I don't know the song well enough to attempt it. Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gold and Silver Days
From: GUEST,Daver the raver
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 02:51 PM

Hey was looking this for my ma, so tabbed it out. Is basic but u get the idea, should get u started:

(E)As I sit here (B)by the (E)fireside I'm turning (B)back the (E)years. I can (A)hear my mother (E)singing in the mor-(B)-ning As she (E)scrubbed our (B)shining (E)faces And then packed us (B)off to (E)school. All too (A)soon those days were (E)over without (B)war-(E)-ning.

(CHORUS): So sing me the songs of our (A)gold and silver (E)days, Days filled with innocence and (B)light. Not a (E)penny to our name, We were (A)happy just the (E)same (A) In our (E)gold and (B)silver (E)days.

In the parlour on a Friday night, My father took the floor. I can hear us join together in the chorus, Singing "Just a Song at Twilight" And "The Moon behind the Hill". Now those voices are all silenced, gone before us. (CHORUS)

We gathered at the Daisy Field On Sunday afternoon, And we danced to Johnny Quigley and the Royal. Through the years we all were scattered, But our friends were good and true, Always there when they were needed, always loyal. (CHORUS)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gold and Silver Days
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 02:51 PM

(E)As I sit here (B)by the (E)fireside
I'm turning (B)back the (E)years.
I can (A)hear my mother (E)singing in the mor-(B)-ning
As she (E)scrubbed our (B)shining (E)faces
And then packed us (B)off to (E)school.
All too (A)soon those days were (E)over without (B)war-(E)-ning.

(CHORUS): So sing me the songs of our (A)gold and silver (E)days,
Days filled with innocence and (B)light.
Not a (E)penny to our name,
We were (A)happy just the (E)same (A)
In our (E)gold and (B)silver (E)days.

In the parlour on a Friday night,
My father took the floor.
I can hear us join together in the chorus,
Singing "Just a Song at Twilight"
And "The Moon behind the Hill".
Now those voices are all silenced, gone before us. (CHORUS)

We gathered at the Daisy Field
On Sunday afternoon,
And we danced to Johnny Quigley and the Royal.
Through the years we all were scattered,
But our friends were good and true,
Always there when they were needed, always loyal. (CHORUS)