Lyrics:Thomas Richard Paxton. Vocals: American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Tom Paxton.
Every time (When We Are Gone).
Every time I hear a sweet bird singing, I think of you and I my dear, I think of you and I. When I hear the evening bells a-ringing, I hang my head and cry my dear, I hang my head and cry.
And they will ring, And they will ri – i – g, When we are gone.
Every time I hear your soft voice humming, My heart jumps in my breast my dear, My heart jumps in my breast. And until I hear your footsteps coming, I sure can know no rest my dear, I sure can know no rest.
I will love you. I will love you – ou – ou. When we are gone. I will love you. I will love you – ou – ou, When we are gone.
Lyrics: Cork born, Irish singer, songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and band leader, the late Ron Kavana[Ronnie Kavanagh 1950 – 2024]. Note: Ron Kavana opened several tours for North Tipperary resident, the late Shane MacGowan(The Pogues). Vocals:Ger and Katie(Ger O’Donnell Music).
Reconciliation.
When summertime has gone, And autumn winds are threatening, To blow our love away, Then love will be tested. Arm in arm we’ll stand, Side by side together, To face the common foe, That would tear our love asunder.
Chorus. Tu ra lura lay, Tura lura laddie, Tu ra lura lay, Tu ra lay.
Now ye fair-weathered friend, Where are you now I need you. Gone like the autumn sun, On a dark December morning. When hard times come around, Like cold and stormy weather It’s only you and I, To Shelter one another
Repeat Chorus
Now there’s a time to fight, And there’s a time for healing. As the sun will melt the snow, On a clear, bright April mornings. Our fight has run its course, Now let us start the healing, And let us both embrace, Sweet reconciliation.
Lyrics: Written sometime in the 1880s by Irish ballad writer, entertainer and dancer John Patrick Dane. Vocals: The late Dublin born Irish singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor Ronnie Drew(1934–2008), recording with ‘The Dubliners‘.
The Stone Outside Dan Murphy’s Door.
There’s a sweet garden spot in our memory, It’s the place we were born and reared. ‘Tis long years ago since we left it, But return there we will if we’re spared. Our friends and companions of childhood, Would assemble each night near a store; ‘Round Dan Murphy’s shop, and how often we sat, On the stone outside Dan Murphy’s door.
Chorus:
Those days in our hearts we will cherish, Contented although we were poor, And the songs that were sung, in the days we were young, On the stone outside Dan Murphy’s door.
When our day’s work was o’er we’d meet there, In the winter or spring, just the same. Then boys and the girls all together, Would join in some innocent game. Dan Murphy would take down his fiddle, While his daughter looked after the store; The music would ring and sweet songs we would sing, On the stone outside Dan Murphy’s door.
Repeat Chorus:
Back again will our thoughts often wander, To the scenes of our childhood’s home. The friends and companions we left there, It was poverty caused us to roam. Since then in this life we have prospered, But still in our hearts we feel sore, For memory will fly to the days long gone by, And the stone outside Dan Murphy’s door.
Every so often the lyrics of a song, its music and vocal quality, pleasantly, makes those little hairs on the back of your neck stand up; such is the song hereunder.
Lyrics: American singer, songwriter and musician Vince Grant Gill. Vocals:Vince Gill and American bluegrass-country singer, fiddler and music producer Alison Krauss.
Whenever You Come Around.
Face of an angel, pretty eyes that shine, I lie awake at night wishing you were mine. Standin’ here holding the biggest heartache in town, Whenever you come around. I get weak in the knees and I lose my breath. I try to speak but the words won’t come I’m so scared to death, When you smile that smile, the world turns upside down, Whenever you come around. I feel so helpless I feel just like a kid, What is it about you that makes me keep my feelings hid. I wish I could tell you, but the words can’t be found, Whenever you come around. I get weak in the knees and I lose my breath, I try to speak but the words won’t come I’m so scared to death, When you smile that smile, the world turns upside down, Whenever you come around. I get weak in the knees and I lose my breath, I try to speak but the words won’t come I’m so scared to death, And when you smile that smile, the world turns upside down, Whenever you come around. And when you smile that smile, The world turns upside down, Whenever you come around. Whenever you come around. END
Singer and actress Ms Marianne Faithfull sadly died today at the age of 78 years. Marianne passed away peacefully in London, in the company of her loving family.
Born in Hampstead, London, UK in December 1946, to parents, father Major Robert Glynn Faithfull (a British intelligence officer) and mother Eva (a ballerina), in the 1960s became famously the girlfriend of ‘Rolling Stones’ frontman Mick Jagger. She rose to fame in 1964 with hit songs like ‘As Tears Go By’, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, which then reached the UK top 10. She will also be remembered for starring roles in films including the 1968 ‘The Girl On A Motorcycle’.
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan.
Lyrics: Late American writer, cartoonist, songwriter and musician Shel Silverstein(1930-1999). Vocals: The late English singer and actress Marianne Faithfull[Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull], (29th December 1946 – 30 January 2025). Song featured is from her 1979 album ‘Broken English’.
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan.
The morning sun touched lightly on, The eyes of Lucy Jordan, In a white suburban bedroom, In a white suburban town. As she lay there ‘neath the covers, Dreaming of a thousand lovers, ‘Til the world turned to orange, And the room went spinning round.
Chorus. At the age of thirty-seven, She realised she’d never ride, Through Paris in a sports car, With the warm wind in her hair. So she let the phone keep ringing, And she sat there softly singing, Little nursery rhymes she’d memorised, In her daddy’s easy chair. Her husband, he’s off to work, And the kids are off to school, And there are, oh, so many ways, For her to spend the day. She could clean the house for hours, Or rearrange the flowers, Or run naked through the shady street, Screaming all the way.
Repeat Chorus. The evening sun touched gently on, The eyes of Lucy Jordan, On the roof top where she climbed, When all the laughter grew too loud, And she bowed and curtsied to the man, Who reached and offered her his hand. And he led her down to the long white car, That waited past the crowd. At the age of thirty seven, She knew she’d found forever, As she rode along through Paris, With the warm wind in her hair.
END
After a period of heroin addiction in the 1970s, which at one point saw her living homeless on the streets of Soho; she resurrected her career with the classic album ‘Broken English’. The singer also had previously suffered multiple health problems, including bulimia, breast cancer and emphysema, latter caused by decades of smoking.
Ms Faithfull received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women’s World Awards, and was made a commandeur of the ‘Ordre des Arts et des Lettres‘, by the government of France.
The singer was married and divorced three times, to artist John Dunbar in 1965, Ben Brierly of the punk band the ‘Vibrators’ in 1979, and actor Giorgio Della Terza in 1988.
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