Lyrics and Vocals: South London based English singer-songwriter Rose Betts.
Take This Body Home.
May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be at your back. May all the rains fall with tenderness, On the fields and forgotten tracks. May your hardened heart be woken, By the soft and distant song, Of all you left here unspoken, All the shards we keep stepping on. Take this body home, Take this body home, Call the wind, and let her know. Take this life outgrown, Take this broken soul, Call the stars, call them all, And take it high, take it far, take it home. May the dark and bitter feelings, Take the path to quiet release. May all your wounds find their healing, In the last and enduring sleep. Take this body home. Take this body home, Call the wind, and let her know. Take this life outgrown, Take this broken soul, Call the stars, call them all, And take it high, take it far, take it home. Take it high, take it far, take it home. Take it high, take it far, take it home. Take it high, take it far, take it home. Oh, take it high, take it far, take it home.
Lyrics: American country singer and songwriter the late Max Barnes, (1935 – 2004). Vocals: Irish country, traditional and easy listening singer, the late Big Tom McBride, (1936 – 2018).
The Same Way You Came In.
Oh we’re going out the same way we came in. Don’t matter who you know or where you’ve been. Makes no difference who you are, Skid Row Joe or superstar, You’re going out the same way you came in. We are born into this world without a thing, And we leave it just as naked as we came. You may drive a Coup de Ville, own a mansion on a hill, Don’t mean nothing when Saint Peter calls your name. Oh you’re going out the same way you came in. Someone will notify your next of kin. Some will weep and some will moan, some will spit upon your stone, But you’re going out the same way you came in. Oh they lay you out in all your fancy clothes, And they’ll figure out just who and what you own. Then the lawyers line their nest and your kinsfolk gets the rest, Oh you can’t take it with you when you go. Oh you’re going out the same way you came in. Makes no difference who you know or where you’ve been. Makes no difference who you are, Skid Row Joe or superstar, You’re going out the same way you came in. Oh you’re going out the same way you came in. Makes no difference who you know or where you’ve been. Makes no difference who you are, Skid Row Joe or superstar, You’re going out the same way you came in. Yeah, you’re going out the same way you came in.
The Warrenpoint Co. Down Irish singer Ms Clodagh Rodgers sadly passed away on Good Friday last, April 18th aged 78 years. Ms Rodgers, who had been ill for around three years, passed away at her home in Cobham, Surrey, England, where she had lived for many years.
Ms Rodgers was best known for her hit singles which included “Come Back and Shake Me”, “Goodnight Midnight” and “Jack in the Box” and albums including “You Are My Music”, “It’s Different Now” and “Save Me”.
Save Me
Ms Rodgers was asked to represent the UK in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin. Despite being a Roman Catholic female and from Northern Ireland, she received death threats from the Irish Republican Army (IRA); latter who regarded her as a traitor, as a result of her agreeing to appear for the United Kingdom. Regional juries decided she was the winner, with her song “Jack in the Box”, with lyrics written by John Worsley and David Myers. On Eurovision night she went on to finish in fourth place, behind Monaco, Spain and Germany.
Ms Rodgers was married twice; firstly to Mr John Morris in 1968, in London. Mr Morris later became her manager, with the marriage producing one son, before they divorced in 1979. She married her second husband, guitarist Mr Ian Sorbie, in 1987; with whom she had a second son in 1984. They remained married until Ian’s death from a brain tumour in 1995.
Ms Rodgers had numerous successes on stage and screen, including ‘Sunday Night at the London Palladium’; ‘The Morecambe and Wise Show’; ‘The Two Ronnies’; ‘The Bill’ and became the face of ‘Bisto Gravy’, in a series of television advertisements.
A wonderful evening of music and song is being embraced with news that the Ormond Octaves Choir, with special guests, Music Generation Tipperary, will perform in concert at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Cathedral Street, Thurles, in just under 12 days’ time, on Friday, May 2nd, 2025.
Thurles Cathedral.
The Ormond Octaves choir consisting of an 80 member four-part choir of sopranos, altos, tenors and basses was initially founded by its Musical Director, Ms Niamh Ryan, almost two decades ago and donates the proceeds of all concerts to worthwhile local charities and other worthy causes, throughout North Co. Tipperary. The worthy cause, in this case, is the Thurles Cathedral Reroofing Fund, latter sadly having fallen into disrepair and is now leaking unto the ceiling plaster work, particularly during periods of high wind.
Included in the upcoming programme will be musical performances by special guests, “Music Generation Tipperary”, with vocal performances coming from Tipperary soloists, including tenors Willie O’Brien and Liam Brennan; tenor bass, Robbie Powell; alto, Edwina Morrissey; sopranos, Eithne Kennedy, Niamh Slattery and Maria McElgunn.
Expect to hear and enjoy the music from much loved musical shows, together with the songs of such artists as Simon and Garfunkel; Abba; Billy Joel; U2; Adele; Coldplay; Don McLean; Snow Patrol; Elbow; Lady Gaga and Toto, with a small sprinkling of well known and loved spiritual numbers.
This is an event for music lovers, young and old and not to be missed.
TICKETS: Tickets for the event are €25 each and are currently on sale at the Parish Offices in Nenagh, Holycross and Thurles and from Bookworm(latter situated in Liberty Square, Thurles).
Lyrics: County Fermanagh Irish musician and songwriter Mickey MacConnell. (Written in 1965) Vocals: Irish male folk group “Onóir”(Word translated from Irish to English meaning “Honor”).
Only Our Rivers Run Free.
When apples still grow in November, When blossoms still bloom on each tree, When leaves are still green in December, It’s then that our land will be free. I wander her hills and her valleys, It’s still through my sorrows I see, A land that have never known freedom, Still only her rivers run free. I drink to the death of her manhood, For the men who’d rather have died, Than to live in the cold chains of bondage, To bring back their rights where denied. Where are you now when we need you? What burns where the flame used to be? Are you gone like the snows of last winter? Will only our rivers run free. How sweet is the life for we’re crying, And how mellow the wine but we’re dry, How fragrant is the rose but it’s dying, How gentle the wind but it sighs. What good is in youth when it’s ageing? What joy is in eyes that can’t see? When there’s sorrow in sunshine and in flowers, And still only our rivers run free. And still only our rivers run free.
END
“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” Above quote by South African anti-apartheid activist and politician the late Nelson Mandela, (1918 – 2013).
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