Lyr Req: The Green among the Gold (Sean Keane)

Subject: The Green Among The Gold
From: McTischer
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 06:54 AM

Please help ! I need the lyrics of "The Green Among The Gold", sung by Sean Keane. Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green Among The Gold
From: Neil Comer
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 04:32 PM

Hang in there, I'll get you the lyrics tomorrow, if its not too far away!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green Among The Gold
From: GUEST,Neil Comer
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 12:11 PM

I haven't forgotten, I just can't find where I left the words.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green Among The Gold
From: GUEST,Big Mick
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 05:21 PM

If I can get an extra 20 minutes at home, I will take them off of Danny and Geraldine Doyle's CD if someone hasn't done it already.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green Among The Gold
From: Áine
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 10:34 AM

Hey Mick, have you got that extra 20 minutes yet? I'd love to see the words to this song . . .

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green Among The Gold
From: Dani
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 12:48 PM

Yes, pretty please with sugar on top? I heard a song on late-night-driving-radio that I know nothing else about, except that line in the chorus and it's haunting, lovely melody. I do remember that it made me feel someone else's homesickness. Hope it turns out to be the same.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE GREEN AMONG THE GOLD (R & S Barnes)
From: GUEST,John Wood
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 08:05 PM

GREEN AMONG THE GOLD.
Rosalind and Steve Barnes.
As recorded by Seán Keane

1. Dusty plains and iron chains met Erin's sons and daughters
Cast upon a barren land, a far-off distant shore.
They dreamed of misty mountains and their home across the water.
They sang of Connemara and the home they'd see no more.
Now limestone walls are all that's left of times of pain and failure.
This country yields the secrets of the beauty that it holds,
And the tunes of Erin's Isle are now the music of Australia,
For Irish hands have woven strands of green among the gold.

CHORUS: And so beneath the southern cross they sang their songs of Ireland.
They sent her sons and daughters there in the hungry days of old.
They play their jigs and reels beneath the skies of their new homeland,
For Irish hands have woven strands of green among the gold.

2. Nowadays when times are hard at home, some people take a notion
To start a brand new life upon the far side of the globe,
And now they find their hearts are stranded somewhere in mid ocean,
Though their days are full of sunshine and their future's full of hope.
Their children sing a broken life of shearers and bushrangers.
They learn to play our music and to dance the steps of old.
Though their hearts are in Australia they never will be strangers
To the land they left behind them; they're the green among the gold. CHORUS


Greetings JW.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green Among The Gold
From: Áine
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 09:11 PM

Thank you, thank you, thank you, John! Now, how can I get the tune? Is Danny and Geraldine Doyle's CD still available?

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green Among The Gold
From: GUEST,McTischer
Date: 25 Jan 00 - 03:36 AM

Thank you very much, John ! And for you, Áine, the song is also recorded on a Sean Keane CD called "Turn A Phrase"

McTischer

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green Among The Gold
From: GUEST,John Wood
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 09:47 PM

I got the text off the Sean Keane -Turn A Phrase cover notes.
Greetings John.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green Among The Gold
From: John Wood
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 12:17 PM

Refresh.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Green among the Gold (Sean Keane)
From: GUEST
Date: 19 May 16 - 06:22 AM

Does anyone have the chords? Thanks in advance!