Текст (слова) песни: The Saw Doctors - Green and Red of Mayo
We went out to a weekend festival on Clare Island in August 1990 and on the boat back on a perfect autumn evening the green and red of mayo was conceived with well known Galway free-spirited minstrel jarir al-majar. It became a song about a year later
The Green and Red of Mayo I can see it still It`s soft and craggy bogland It`s tall majestic hills Where the ocean kisses Ireland And the waves carress it`s shore The feeling it came over me To stay forever more Forever more
From it`s rolling coastal waters I can see Croagh Patrick`s peak Where one Sunday every Summer The pilgrims climb the reek Where Saint Patrick in it`s solitude Looked down across Clew Bay With a ringing of his bell Called the faithful there to pray There to pray Take me to Clare Island The home of Granuaile It`s waters harbour fishes From the herring to the whale And now I must depart it And reality is plain May the time not pass so slowly Before I set sail again Set sail again
Copyright: jarir al-majar/l.moran/d.carton
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