THE RIVERBRIDES

AMER-IRISH LYRICS

SET TWO 1997  
Amer-Irish Set        
 
"all my friends are jealous and my enemies are scared"
1. Dublin Mary
2. Hey Kellie
3. A Bottle, A Prayer and a Tune
4. Molly
5. Truce
6. Eire Nua
7. Fables of Erin 
8. Across The River Bride
9. Please Don't Let Me Down
10. An Irish Lynching
11. Kiss the Blarney Stone
All Songs by John Barry
Warning: These songs are nothing but fantasies. They are not to be taken as 
                opinions, facts, reality or propaganda. jeb
Dublin Mary
Three times towards the blackened sea
Call the others, set the coastal fires for the
cold cold cold enemy
Green eyed girl, watches the world
Sink, pleading to gods and queens
please remember, don't send her
    Mary watches, from the cliffs in the wind
    Mary launches, tears and prayers for the man she'll never see again
Nights down a darkened road
No moon rising, snow blinding 
Everyone knows ghosts don't show
Sixty-three years, Mary stares
Far away across the waves
He married, long buried
    Mary watches......
Hey Kellie
Hey Kellie, what would ya' say, if I said I wasn't leavin' I was gonna stay
Hey Kellie, what would ya' do, if I swore off the cause gave it all away for you
ooo...this Irish girl is one I'm gonna follow
I may not make her happy today but I know I will tomorrow
    Hey what do ya' want from me?
    Give up this dream of Ireland being free
    Hey what do ya' think I should do?
    Should I sell my soul for an empty fortune?
    You've got my heart ain't that good enough for you?
Hey Kellie, what would it take, for us to never see another senseless Irish wake
Hey Kellie, who would believe, nothing's really changed after all these centuries
ooo....this Irish girl is waiting by the door
"stay or do yer' 'duty' it's yer' own choice boy"
    Hey what do......
Hey Kellie, what did ya' hear, of a price on my head, that I won't last the year
Hey Kellie, do ya' think I should run, across the western ocean
ooo...this irish girl is covered in black
One more Irish boy is never comin' back
A Bottle, A Prayer, And A Tune
oh lay me down, it won't be long, for she has gone, away
by the morning light, of October 5th, away, my darlin', away
    In a Yankee town, she sought her own
    To America, she flew
    And I be here, on the Belfast dole
    With a bottle, a prayer, and a tune
Now across the ocean, the shinin' sea, is a land of fortune and gold
but it holds something, more dear to me, the girl,  I wait for years alone
    In a Yankee....
So listen once please but don't share yer' pity, one day she'll return, one day
Til then I lie, in the alleys all night, and dream of her smilin' face
Molly
It wouldn't be good to be alone
down past Falls road
It wouldn't be good to be seen there
don't like Catholic girls anywhere
  but all I really wanted was for her to be ok
  so why did she have to prove me right, this way Molly
     Oh, oh-oh, Did you see a girl 
     Alone, oh-oh, waiting for me on this
     Road, she told me, everything would be alright but it's not,
           anymore
I don't want to hear those sirens
this isn't how it all should end
Close my eyes to those flashing lights
wake me up when everything's alright
  but all I really want is it to be anyone else
  I told her not to go alone, ah hell Molly
     Oh, oh-oh....
        She was just a girl, not some god-damn rebel
        I don't think that you can tell me there was one good reason........
    Oh, oh-oh....
Truce
Everybody says we have to surrender, things are over no regrets
Everybody says it's going to get better, and we can just forget
  The pain, the murder, for centuries now, under the thumb of the bastard crown
  I'm sorry, I can't believe the words again, I will not be gving in yet
      Lay down, your arms, means "I surrender"
      I see, no harm, one defender shall remain
Everybody thinks the times are changing, everybody thinks everyone is
Below the heights it still seems the same, maybe there's something that I missed
  This country, stolen, is not your own, to daily worship a bloody throne
   I'm sorry, I've heard this story too many times, a life time of English lies
      Lay down......
      Don't lay down your arms, tonight, they'll never give up the fight
      Don't lay down your arms, wait, today's smile is tomorrow's hate
      Don't lay down your arms, pease, is not their history
      I can wait forever, until the last defender dies
      Don't lay down, don't lay down.....why aren't you listening
Eire Nua
Grandfather tell us that story again
About the seasons, the sorrows the dead
Please just remind them what's been is what's been
  Who was the hero that soiled the ground
  Touched by the blood of the Young 'gainst the Crown
   Where have they gotten in all of this now?
          Eire Nua
           This is not another, patriot song (X2)
Grandfather where is your uniform now
Worn with kid wisdom, stained by a vow
You cry in your sleep and wonder out loud
   Grandfather where is the one you held close
   the one who wore your ring, one I'll never know
   Is she a reminder of blind rebel prose
        Eire Nua
        This is not another, patriot song
Fables of Erin
She only walks alone except in the shadows
Only I, can bring her down somehow
She tosses her hair, stares out the window
Memories of fantasies and broken vows
    It seems it's not that far, into the future I will fall
          All, those nights, heard fables of Erin
                 All those nights I heard (fables of Erin)
She only breaths the ocean at the sandbar
Only shoots false stars out of the sky
empties her pockets on the bar for the last time
Returns all the time I cast aside
    it wasn't long enough, I heard her say "hey that's just tough"
Across The River Bride
Will she wait for me, across the river Bride
in the dim mist morning, she's on the wrong side
Will she call for me, out in the Irish night
will she find another, will she looks for signs
     Cause I sailin' to America, I can't stay here anymore
     And I promise that, I'll send for her, when i reach that New York shore
     Cause I've got to be, a better man, to do that colleen right
     And I can't forget, the nights I spent, across, the river Bride
Will she wait for me, across the river Bride
she's my only hope, for me to survive here
Will she answer all those, letters, I said I'd write
will she love another, leave me far behind
    Cause I'm sailin'........
Is she still waiting, across, the river Bride
Sixty-five years apart, is she even alive
Does she still wear, the silver charm I gave
Does she still look for, letter, that never came
     Cause I've long gone to America, in these bars all sorrows drown
     And I promised that, I'd send for her, but my fortune I never found
     And I'm too ashamed, and far too late, to do it again right
     but if I could, I surely would, cross, the river Bride
Please, Don't Let Me Down
If, you knew, this darkness around me
would, you come, would, you find me
If, I fell, hurt, and drunken
would, the morning, send me comfort      or would there be no one still
Once I'll ask, twice forsaken
my, pride, is already taken
The streets, the cold, a worn gray overcoat
friends, (huh) I don't, believe I have any          she won't send them my way
      Please, don't let me down
      don't let me down, and I'll be OK
      Please, don't let me down
      one time be around, one time stay
oh, god. somebody talk to me
peace, hope, love is all I need
I'm, so, tired of emptiness
I've had enough, must, I beg again         no sir not me
    Please.......
A wink, in the eye, lost, so long ago
regrets, a million, I told you so's
Just one, can, only know this
how, huge, is loneliness       oh this is good-bye
An Irish Lynching
Just got the news today they're, gonna take me out of here
I swear I tried everything
But time just catches up with crazy boys and old bad luck
It doesn't make it any easier on you I know
I made it so easy, the wrong place the wrong time
The hardest part is never seeing you again
Wish I could call, wish I could write, but we both know better
Some things somebody just wouldn't understand
What can you tell a man, lost amid a greater plan
Is this the justice they believed when they wrote down
Don't blame the IRA, don't say it's cause of hate
And don't place my face on martyr corner poles and walls
I never said I did a thing they say, I didn't do
Anything but what was right in their eyes
Of my father, of my friend, of my countrymen
But in yours I saw all that I really lose
Kiss The Blarney Stone
Still alive in '75, bet you nver saw the idols cry
Hide down the lane, shoot from the hip, ah could it get much worse than this
I thought of going to America, things seem so much freer over there
Nobody tells me what to do, I don't need England I don't mean you
    English dogs, Irish whores, go to hell leave my Ireland alone
    You can kiss my ass or the Blarney Stone
     Get out go home leave my Ireland alone
Kneecapped, in '84, so now I don't ever answer the door
I run the press for the underground, sulk in the pubs for the voice I'll know
I thought of sailing to America, where it's easy to die for not a cause
It seems the same here now, whatever happened to fighting the crown
    English dogs.....
September 5th, everything changed
in Londonderry, they said it was the wrong  time the wrong place
Pledged a vow, that's lost somehow, the cause they hide in cowardice
My daughter would've been five yesterday, now I can hardly remember her face
I'm off to America, I'll take my chances on a Brooklyn Ave
Fuck the cause I don't care, god not if the children aren't spared
    English dogs, Irish whores, it's gone to hell Ireland's got no hope
     You can kiss my ass or the Blarney Stone
      I don't care any more, Ireland's on 
      her own