CHASING THE SUN
(Written by Karan Casey)

The stars they all stand up in the sky
Make me want to fly away with you
The winds pile themselves into my dreams
Reminding me only of the lack of you

I could be up there with the best of them
Me the clouds and our shadows
Chasing the sun (x2)

The wind takes me up into her arms
Wraps herself around me away we go
While outside the snows they fall away
Slowly saying goodbye, goodbye to you

I could be up there with the best of them
Me the clouds and our shadows
Chasing the sun (x2)

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: guitar
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Erik Johnson: drums
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WHEN WILL WE ALL BE FREE
(Written by Karan Casey)

Some people live the high life
They live like Kings and Queens
They go about all dressed up
Well encased in their dreams

Most of us go from day to day
With the feeling we have no clout
The gods they say it's better that way
To keep us going from hand to mouth

Life is for living
And living is for loving
Loving is for giving
If we can be free
When will we all be free
When will we all be free

Our politicians run to the altar of gold
To line their pockets with greed
Turning a blind eye to all around
Especially the ones in need

McDowell's welcome is naught
He builds barriers along our shores
At night he stops buses and takes people off
If they don't look anything like ours

Life is for living
And living is for loving
Loving is for giving
If we can be free
When will we all be free
When will we all be free

We've only dreamed of what we can do
We've hardly seen the colour of angels
When will we open our hearts to sing
Let the stars fall out and lets begin

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: guitar
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Niall Vallely: concertina
John Anthony: pandeiro, udu, shakers, sticks and bells and drums
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THE WORLD LOOKS AWAY
(Written by Barry Kerr)

I woke up from the dream
To find it all the same
The pain was still here
And the world looked away
The world looked away
The world looked away

Palestine burns
The curfew lingers on
Invasion by night
Occupation by dawn
And the world looks away
And the world looks away
And the world looks away

Refugee's set your spirit free
Rise your souls above the dust
An F16 won't bring you down
Nor take your land from your heart

Child of Jenin
Your strength must get you through
They took your brothers once
Soon they will come for you
And the world will look away
And the world will look away

Refugee's set your spirit free
Rise your souls above the dust
An F16 won't bring you down
Nor take your land from your heart
And the world looks away

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: guitar
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Niall Vallely: concertina
John Anthony: tar, tabla and shaker
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THIS TIME WILL PASS
(Written by Karan Casey)

I'll keep your story
I'll keep it for you
Fold it into my heart
Where no one will know

I'll hold your spirit
Like a sigh on the wind
Like some rain on a flower
To remind me of you

I've seen the mountain
Her bulge in the sky
Her baby unborn
Heard her scalded heart cry

This time will pass
A wise man has told me
This time will pass
On all occasions

You must come quiet
To the door of my memory
I'm standing on briars
Out in the storm

Your song like the stars
It will be sung
So gather the brightness
Into your heart

I've seen the mountain
Her bulge in the sky
Her baby unborn
Heard her scalded heart cry

This time will pass
A wise man has told me
This time will pass
On all occasions

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: bouzouki
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Michael Aharon: keyboard

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THE BROWN AND THE YELLOW ALE
(Traditional)
As I was going down the road one fine morning
Oh the brown and the yellow ale
I met with a young man without any warning
Oh love of my heart

He asked me if the woman by my side was my daughter
Oh the brown and the yellow ale
When I said she was my wife his manner did not altar
Oh love of my heart

He asked me if I'd lend her for an hour and a day
Oh the brown and the yellow ale
I said if she thinks it fair you may take her away
Oh love of my heart

She said you take the high road and I'll take off with him
Oh the brown and the yellow ale
And we'll meet again by the ford in the river
Oh love of my heart

I was waiting by the ford for an hour and a quarter
Oh the brown and the yellow ale
When she came to me 'twas without shame I saw her
Oh love of my heart

When she told me her story I lay down and I died
Oh the brown and the yellow ale
She sent two men out for timber well she never even cried
Oh love of my heart

A board of alder and a board of holly
Oh the brown and the yellow ale
And two greater yards of a shroud all about me
Oh love of my heart

Now if my own little mother had never been a woman
Oh the brown and the yellow ale
I would sing you many's another song about the women
Oh love of my heart
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LADY MARY ANNE
(Robert Burns/Traditional)

Lady Mary Anne looked over the castle wall
And there she saw twa bonny laddies playing at the ball
And the youngest of them was the fairest of all
He's my bonny boy he's young and he's growing O

O father dearest father you have done me a great wrong
For to go and get married to a lad who is so young
For he being only sixteen years and I am twenty one
He's my bonny boy he's young and he's growing O

Daughter dearest daughter I have done you no wrong
For to go and get you married to a lad who is so young
He will be a match for you when I am dead and gone
He's your bonny boy he's young and he's growing O

Father dearest father then I'll tell you what we'll do
We'll send my love to college for another year or two
All around his college cap we'll bind the ribbons blue
To let the ladies know that he's married O

Well young Charlie Cochrane was the sprout of an oak
Blithe aye and bonny and straight was his neck
And the sun when it shone it was all for his sake
He will be the pride of the forest O

Lady Mary Anne was the flower among the dew
Blithe aye and bonny and straight was her shoe
The longer she blossomed well the sweeter she grew
For the lilly in the bud will be bonnier O

The summer it is gone and the leaves they were green
Happy were the days that both you and I have seen
Ah but far happier days I trust will come again
For my bonny boy he's young and he's growing O

Oh well at the age of sixteen years he was a married man
At the age of seventeen the father of his son
Ah but at the age of eighteen o'er his grave the grass grew green
Cruel death had put an end to his growing O

I will weave my love a shroud of the ornamental brown
While I am a weaving it the tears they will fall down
For once I had a true love but now he's lying low
I'll nurse his bonny boy while he's growing O

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: mandolin and bouzouki
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Niall Vallely: concertina
John Anthony: bodhrán, shakers and djembe
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MOTHER EARTH'S REVENGE
(Written by Barry Kerr)

I am a hawk on a mountain side
A crashing wave on a winter's tide
The breeze that blows on a tall ship's sail
I am the kick of a salmon's tail

I'm up above and I am below
I'm black and white, I'm sand and I'm snow
I'm all around and I live within
I'm mother earth the spirit in all living things

I'm winter white oh I'm autumn gold
I'm summer's bloom I'm springs new soul
I'm every season with the birds that sing
I'm mother earth the spirit in all living things

But you cut down the trees
Your fumes they choke the breeze
You burn the world for oil
And you poison the soil
So I'll flood the plains
I'll drown you in your acid rain
I'll pour fourth a curse and
Return you back to dust

When lightning strikes you'll know I'm near
You knew the beauty now feel the fear
As your storm rolls in you better hide
I'll make you wish that you weren't alive

I am a hawk on a mountain side
A crashing wave on a winter's tide
The breeze that blows on a tall ship's sail
I am the kick of a salmon's tail

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: guitar
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Niall Vallely: concertina
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FREEDOM SONG
(Written by Karan Casey)

I think of you each day
Although you're far away
I try to understand
How it is in a foreign land

I wonder if you sleep
Your mind can find no ease
Your heart can still be free
To dream of liberty

I'll sing for you this song
I'll sing it to keep your heart up
I'll sing it to give you strength
Oh I'll sing it for freedom
Oh freedom, precious freedom

If you can see the sky
The skylark he flies high
He leaves his spirit there
Out upon the air

His dreams they sing on
Like the stars they burn through
Our voices they will soar
Until injustice is no more

I'll sing for you this song
I'll sing it to keep your heart up
I'll sing it to give you strength
Oh I'll sing it for freedom
Oh freedom, precious freedom

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: mandolin and bouzouki
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Michael Aharon: piano
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THE YELLOW FURZE
(Written by Karan Casey)

The yellow furze stole my heart again today
The daisies in the long grasses sway
Before I stepped into his domain
My heart soared and sang with the wind

I stood in by the ditch where the primroses lay
And thought of my good friend Jane
Who has turned her life around for herself yes for herself
Despite the shame of it all
They had to hand it to her

She's done well so they couldn't complain
They waited for the fall and
All the pain to come through
With hearts already too broken
Only to be frozen over in misery.

They never said about the baby born in the barn
About finding her twisted and wound up with their scorn
Or the months she spent many miles oh many miles away
Or the dark sunglasses worn on a winter's day

We had nowhere to turn to but the skies
So we followed our star around the world
Now we wave and walk on each bent in our own wind
The trees lean in and listen

They had to hand it to her
She's done well so they couldn't complain
They waited for the fall and
All the pain to come through
With hearts already too broken
Only to be frozen over in misery

Repeat first verse

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: bouzouki
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Niall Vallely: concertina
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THE KEG OF BRANDY
(Written by Robbie O'Connell)
I'm always drunk and I'm seldom sober
In constant roving from town to town
But I am old now and my sporting is over
So Molly a stór won't you lay me down

Lay my head on a keg of brandy
It is my fancy I do declare
For while I'm drinking I'm always thinking
Of lovely Molly from the County Clare

The ripest apple is the soonest rotten
And the warmest love is the soonest cold
A young man's fancies are soon forgotten
So beware young maid's and don't make so bold

Lay my head on a keg of brandy
It is my fancy I do declare
For while I'm drinking I'm always thinking
Of lovely Molly from the County Clare

It's youth and folly makes young men marry
It makes them tarry a long long day
What can't be cured love must be endured love
So farewell darling I am going away

Lay my head on a keg of brandy
It is my fancy I do declare
For while I'm drinking I'm always thinking
Of lovely Molly from the County Clare

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: mandolin and bouzouki
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Niall Vallely: concertina
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WAITING FOR THE SNOW
(Written by Barry Kerr)
Feed us with your left hand
Starve us with your right
I will lie in a cold tent
While you are warm tonight
While we watch the same sunset
And the same stars fall
We have nothing
You have it all

As the march moves on
We've nowhere left to turn
Fighting to survive
While waiting for the snow

We curse the dusty mountains
The aching desert storm
Hear our children crying
Hungry in the morn
Their feast lies not in this world
But in another place
So stand up and listen
Take the smile from your face

As the march moves on
We've nowhere left to turn
Fighting to survive
While waiting for the snow

Our fate lies in your hands
While your world looks on
Politicians squirm about
Wondering what's gone wrong
Millions taking to the roads
It's happened yet again
I say now is the time
Come on now is the time
Now is the time to heal the pain

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: guitar
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Niall Vallely: concertina
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BRIGHT WINTER'S DAY
(Written by Karan Casey)
Rain fall softly to kiss your face
Bring me back to your embrace
Rain come down make the snows fade away
On this bright winter's day

And I wonder where you are now
In your own quiet way
And I wonder where you are now
On this bright winter's day

Herds of shadows they cross your eyes
Wars are waging there's no disguise
Herds through all of your sorrows sway
On this bright winter's day

And I wonder where you are now
In your own quiet way
And I wonder where you are now
On this bright winter's day

When the winds are still
And the rivers icy grey
I will always love you
Till the end of my day

And I wonder where you are now
In your own quiet way
And I wonder where you are now
On this bright winter's day

Musicians
Robbie Overson: guitar
Paul Meehan: mandolin
Ewen Vernal: double bass
Niall Vallely: concertina
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JIMMY WHELAN
(Traditional)
One evening of late as I went a walking
Watching the sunbeams as evening drew nigh
'Twas onwards I rambled and I spied a fair maiden
A weeping and a wailing with many's a sigh

For one who is gone and now lies lonely
Lonely for one no mortal can tell
Her deep roaming waters roll swiftly around him
And the grass it lies green over young Jimmy's grave

Oh Jimmy she cried now don't go and leave me
Don't go and leave me here for to mourn
take me oh take along with you darling
Down to your grave and the cold silent tomb

My darling he said you are asking a favour
That no mortal on earth could grant onto thee
For death is the dagger that has torn us asunder
And wide is the grave love between you and me

For tis oft times you walk by the banks of the river
My spirit will watch you to guard and to keep
There will I hover and ever fly over
To protect my darling from the cold silent tomb

One fond embrace love and then I must leave you
One loving farewell and then we must part
Cold were the arms that encircled around her
And cold was the form she pressed to her heart

Then slowly he rose from the banks of the river
Up to the skies he then seem to go
Leaving this fair maid by the side of the water
A weeping and a wailing with many's a sigh

Oh Jimmy she cried now don't go and leave me
Don't go and leave me here for to mourn
take me oh take along with you darling
Down to your grave and the cold silent tomb

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