Lyr Add: The Green & The Blue

Subject: The Green & The Blue
From: Mbo
Date: 19 Dec 99 - 11:23 AM

Here's one of my favorite Battlefield Band songs, from the album "Crossing The Borders" (with Kate Rusby singing harmony!):

THE GREEN AND THE BLUE

Chorus:
Don't turn to look on the green hills of Antrim
Fermanagh's behind you, it's time tae move on
Look onwards tae Glasgow, and all your tomorrows
Your future lies there, and it's waiting for you
As the green crosses over to meet with the blue.

And what was the sense when the wee ones were cryin'?
The cries of the hungry, no sense to remain
No prayer could recover a sister or brother
So farewell to Fermanagh, the praying is done.

Chorus

The lands that you leave pass into many martyrs
And too many lives that have perished in vain
And too many boats slipping out from it's harbours
With cargoes that never came homewards again.

Chorus

If the wings of the eagle could carry you over
To the lands of the prairie, then surely you'd fly
But an ocean so wide, and a far distant country
So far from your own land is no place to die.

Chorus
As the green crosses over to meet with the blue.

--Mbo