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Lyr/Chords Req: Home to Ireland (Cathy Ross)

10 Sep 01 - 04:20 AM (#546044)
Subject: Coming Home To Ireland???
From: GUEST,Arjay

I recently heard a very pretty song about someone of Irish ancestry who visited Ireland for the first time and felt like she/he was coming home.

I don't know the title and am not positive of the hook line, but that's the idea. I looked in DT and forum under several cominations of those words. No luck.

Does someone know it?

10 Sep 01 - 11:53 AM (#546304)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Coming Home To Ireland???
From: Sorcha

I found this, but I don't think it's what you are looking for. Can you get any phrases at all?

25 Sep 01 - 01:09 AM (#557997)
Subject: ADD: Home to Ireland ^^
From: GUEST,Cathy canw@mindspring.com

Would this be the song you wanted? (A friend just emailed me that you had posted this request)

               Home To Ireland
  
  I went over to Ireland to just say hello
  To honor ancestors who left long ago
  But when I saw the green hills and the mist rolling slow
  I knew that my heart had come home
    
  CHORUS:I've come home to Ireland from 200 years
         To people with faces like looking in mirrors
         We sang some old songs, and we cried some old tears
         And I knew that my heart had come home.
  
  I wandered the lands my ancestors had known
  Killarney, Kilkenny, Tralee and Tyrone
  And wherever I'd go, 'twas "come in and sit down"
  And I knew that my heart had come home
   (chorus)
  
  From the north to the south, they told one wish to me
  Peace for all Ireland, united and free
  For a land with no borders except for the sea
  A land with one heart and one home.
  (chorus)


-Cathy Ross, Copyright 1998
^^ Written while I was visiting Ireland that summer


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25 Sep 01 - 02:47 AM (#558040)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Coming Home To Ireland???
From: GUEST,Arjay

I think it is. Thanks for posting it.
Arjay

PS
Does anyone have a midi of it?

25 Sep 01 - 10:25 PM (#558851)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Coming Home To Ireland???
From: dwp

Cathy

Absolutely wonderful!

Your lyric absolutley expresses how I felt after my first visit to Ireland in '98.

Is there a melody to go with it? If there is a melody, but no readily available sound file, can you post the key/chords used?

Thanks so much!

28 Sep 01 - 01:03 AM (#560491)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Coming Home To Ireland???
From: GUEST,Cathy canw@mindspring.com

Yes there is a melody - I am not sure how to go about making a sound file - if I can find out, I will make one and post(?) it here. I do hope to have a CD out by late spring and the song will be on it, so stay in touch. I'm glad you liked the song - it is an amazing feeling, isn't it, to go to a faraway country that feels so much like home... -Cathy

12 Jan 02 - 04:00 AM (#626442)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Coming Home To Ireland???
From: Genie

Cathy, your song is beautiful (both lyrics and melody) and you sing it wonderfully, too. If you haven't submitted it for inclusion in the Mudcat Songbook, I wish you would.
I'm also eager to hear your CD.
Jeanene

26 Apr 20 - 08:50 PM (#4048760)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Home to Ireland (Cathy Ross)
From: Joe Offer

Most of this is already in the Digital Tradition, and in Cathy's post above. But for the sake of completeness:

Thread #57933   Message #913745
Posted By: Stewart
19-Mar-03 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: genealogy and folk music
Subject: RE: genealogy and folk music

Here's a song my friend Cathy Ross wrote after her first trip to her ancestral home in Ireland. It is on her recent self-released CD "Times of Summer Sun". You can email her about purchasing a copy.


Home To Ireland
-Cathy Ross, Copyright 1998
canw@mindspring.com


I went over to Ireland to just say hello
To honor ancestors who left long ago
But when I saw the green hills and the mist rolling slow
I knew that my heart had come home

   
CHORUS:I've come home to Ireland from 200 years
To people with faces like looking in mirrors
We sang some old songs, and we cried some old tears
And I knew that my heart had come home.


I wandered the lands my ancestors had known
Killarney, Kilkenny, Tralee and Tyrone
And wherever I'd go, 'twas "come in and sit down"
And I knew that my heart had come home
chorus)


From the north to the south, they told one wish to me
Peace for all Ireland, united and free
For a land with no borders except for the sea
A land with one heart and one home.
chorus)



Cheers, S. in Seattle

12 Oct 20 - 03:48 PM (#4075289)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Home to Ireland (Cathy Ross)
From: Joe Offer

Fred Maslan sang Cathy's "Come to the Dance" today. Lovely song.


https://www.discogs.com/Cathy-Ross-Trust-The-River/release/15087786