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A Song For A Sunday.

The Night Watch.

Lyrics: American songwriter, country music singer, and dancer the late Cindy Walker, (1917 – 2006).
Vocals: American singer, songwriter, and musician the late Jim Reeves, (August – 1964).

American singer, songwriter, and musician the late Jim Reeves.

The Night Watch.

(God is keeping the night watch for you and for me).

Bright stars are watching the world as it sleeps,
Shepherds watch over the little white sheep,
The lighthouse is shining for ships far at sea,
As God keeps the night watch for you and for me.

So sleep, sleep in peace and rest,
Don’t be afraid of the darkness,
All’s well for over the land and the sea,
God’s keeping the night watch for you and for me.

(God is keeping the night watch for you and for me).

So sleep, sleep in peace and rest,
Don’t be afraid of the darkness,
All’s well for over the land and the sea,
God’s keeping the night watch for you and for me.

END.

Four Strong Winds.

Four Strong Winds.

American country music singer and songwriter Robert Joseph Bare.

Lyrics: The late Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Dawson Tyson C.M. A.O.E., (1933-2022).
Vocals: American country music singer and songwriter Robert Joseph Bare Sr. known as Bobby Bare.

Four Strong Winds.

Four strong winds that blow lonely,
Seven seas that run high,
All these things that won’t change come what may,
But my good times are all gone,
And I’m bound for moving on.
I’ll look for you if I’m ever back this way,
I may go out to Alberta,
Weather’s good there in the fall,
Got some friends that I could go to workin’ for,
Still I wish you’d change your mind.
If I asked you one more time,
But we’ve been through that a hundred times or more.
If I get there before the snow flies,
And things are going good,
You could join me if I send you down the fare,
But if you’ll wait until it’s winter,
It would do no good,
For the wind sure can blow cold way out there.
Four strong winds that blow lonely,
(Four strong winds that blow lonely),
Seven seas that run high (that run high),
All these things that won’t change come what may,
(Change come what may)
But my good times are all gone,
And I’m bound for moving on.
I’ll look for you if I’m ever back this way.

END

Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine.

Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine.

The Late Tom T. Hall (1936 – 2021)

Lyrics and Vocals: American country music singer, songwriter and short-story author, the late Tom T. Hall (1936 – 2021), informally nicknamed “The Storyteller”.

Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine.

“How old do you think I am?” he said.
I said, “Well, I didn’t know”.
He said, “I turned 65 about 11 months ago”.
I was sittin’ in Miami pourin’ blended whiskey down,
When this old gray black gentleman was cleanin’ up the lounge.
There wasn’t anyone around, ‘cept this old man and me,
The guy who ran the bar was watchin’ Ironsides on TV.
Uninvited, he sat down and opened up his mind,
On old dogs and children and watermelon wine.
“Ever had a drink of watermelon wine?” he asked,
He told me all about it, though I didn’t answer back.
Ain’t but three things in this world that’s worth a solitary dime,
But old dogs and children and watermelon wine.
He said, “Women think about they-selves, when menfolk ain’t around,
And friends are hard to find when they discover that you’re down”
.
He said, “I tried it all when I was young and in my natural prime,
Now it’s old dogs and children and watermelon wine”
.
Old dogs care about you even when you make mistakes,
God bless little children while they’re still too young to hate.
When he moved away, I found my pen and copied down that line,
‘Bout old dogs and children and watermelon wine.
I had to catch a plane up to Atlanta that next day,
As I left for my room, I saw him pickin’ up my change.
That night I dreamed in peaceful sleep of shady summertime,
Of old dogs and children and watermelon wine.

End

If I Sing You A Love Song.

If I Sing You A Love Song.

Lyrics: British pop music promoter, group manager and songwriter Ronnie Scott and producer, songwriter and guitar player Steve Wolfe.

Ms Bonnie Tyler

Vocals: Welsh singer Ms Sullivan (née Hopkins), known professionally as Ms Bonnie Tyler.

If I Sing You A Love Song.

If I Sing You A Love Song.
If I sing you a love song, will you always remember?
Will you hear it on lonely nights, when I’m not around?
If I sing you a love song, will you hear it forever?
To remind you how much I care and how I needed you.

Love songs last longer than lovers ever do,
So, baby, let me sing a love song for you.
Love songs don’t leave you, but lovers often do,
Oh, baby, I’m afraid it could happen to me and you.

If I sing you a love song, let it always be with you,
When the others have gone away, let it still be there.

Love songs last longer than lovers ever do,
So, baby, let me sing a love song for you.
Love songs don’t leave you, like lovers often do,
Oh, baby, I’m afraid it could happen to me and you
.
Oh, oh, oh yea,
Oh, lonely nights when I’m not around
Baby, it’s a love song, so I’ll remember,
On lonely nights.
I’ll sing you a love song,
To give your love for me.
I’ll sing you a love song,

I’ll sing you a love song.

END

Historical Chalices Of Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

“Walter of the Rosaries Chalice”. (Walter na bPaidríní).
Pic: G. Willoughby ©

If you ask Thurles [Map Ref.] people what is the oldest manufactured object in daily use in this area, they might not immediately think of the chalices located in their local Church. This may well be so, and the story behind each chalice may be interesting in itself, to lovers of local and Irish history.

Our special thanks to historian and researcher Very Rev. Monsignor Dr Maurice Dooley, AP, Parish of Loughmore, Templemore, Co. Tipperary, and former lecturer on Canon Law at St Patrick’s College, Cathedral, Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.