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22 Apr 17 - 03:33 AM (#3851792) Subject: Chord Req: Only Children After Rain From: GUEST,threelegsoman Does anybody have the lyrics and chords for the song "Only Children After Rain" written by Paul Foskin with music by Paul Grant and performed by Liam Clancy please? |
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22 Apr 17 - 04:37 AM (#3851813) Subject: ADD: Only Children After Rain (Grant & Foskin) From: Joe Offer I don't do chords, but here are the lyrics. ONLY CHILDREN AFTER RAIN (Words, Paul Foskin; Music, Paul Grant and Paul Foskin) I watch the film but I can't see Beyond the child a refugee Who never made the news at all. And as the uniforms parade, She takes her hand down from her face To see the mighty men of war. At twelve years old she goes to school In faded jeans and faded youth And memories she can't forget. Her father's dead; her brother blames The U.V.F., the I.R.A. Or some such piece of alphabet. CHORUS They're only children after rain A single face, a thousand names, The war we won, the love we lost (alt: A silent voice to count the cost) They're only children after rain, A photograph without a frame, A crucifixion with no cross. (alt: a crucifix without a cross) In the frightened eyes of a lonely child With no lullabies and no nursery rhymes; Just another tear to fall across another face. We plant the seed and the seed will grow; We come to reap what we came to sow, Then we wonder at it all, and will it ever change? Now she laughs - now she cries; She takes it in and she takes her time And I can see tomorrow in her eyes. I see the show most every day, But as I turn to walk away, I always feel I missed the end. I stay behind, the crowd is gone, I read the cast, the lights come on; Or was it really just pretend? Words….Paul Foskin Music…Paul Grant and Paul Foskin. Source: http://homepage.eircom.net/~kathryngrant/page11.html (corrected from the Liam Clancy recording) Liam Clancy recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99wwuW5nhqk Alternate lyrics from the recording by Camnoc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w7B1kmagpQ |
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22 Apr 17 - 06:17 AM (#3851824) Subject: RE: Chord Req: Only Children After Rain From: GUEST,T Thanks for the full set of lyrics Joe. That is a great help, but if anyone can figure out the chords for the bridge, I would be very grateful. |