Cara Dillon

As I roved out on a bright May morning To view the meadows and flowers gay Whom should I spy but my own true lover As she sat under yon willow tree I took off my hat and I did salute her I did salute her most courageously When she turned around well the...

Black is the colour of my true loves hair. Her lips are like a rose so fair. Shes got the sweetest face and the gentlest hands. I love the ground whereon she stands. I love my love and well she knows. I love the ground whereon she goes. And how I whish...

One morning fair I took the air Down by Blackwater side Twas gazing all around me Twas the Irish lad I spied All through the first part of that night We lay in sport and play Then this young man arose and gathered his clothes Saying, "Fare you well tod...

Blue mountain river, if only for a while, Take me to the river, lay down by your side, The world is full of madness and I find it hard to smile, Take me through winter and wait for summertime. Take me where you're going I 'll be right by your side. Blue moun...

"Oh rise up my darling and come with me I want to go with you and leave this country To leave my fathers dwelling, this house and the land So away goes Jamie with his love in his arms They go over hills and the mountains and glens Traveling all through the ni...

Bonny, bonny was my seat in the red rosy yard And bonny was my ship in the town of Ballynagard Shade and shelter was for me till I began to fail You all may guess now my distress lies near the Nightingale Grief and woe that I must go to fight for England's K...

What's a spring-breathing jasmine and rose What's a summer, with all it's gay train What's the splendour of autumn, to those Who've barter'd their freedom for gain? Let the love of our land's sacred rights To the love of our people succeed Let friendshi...

A Thousand hearts Bright morning star arising Bright morning star arising Bright morning star arising Day is breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear Mothers Oh where re our dear Mothers Oh where are our dear Mothers Day is breaking in my soul They...

One night as I lay slumbering in my silent bed alone Some reckless thoughts came to my mind which caused me for to roam To leave my native country and the wee girl I do adore So I thought it fit to take a trip, strange lands for to explore Now the night befor...

I will not forget all the things I haven't said yet And so I'll wait Like water thrown on water, it's always hard to tell Just where it ends Getting ready to be strung, there is sweetness to Every blow Broken bridges, wish I could lie down Freedom ang...

It being in the springtime and the small birds were singing, Down by yon shady harbour I carelessly did stray, The thrushes they were warbling, The violets they were charming, To view fond lovers talking, a while I did delay. She said, my dear don't leave me...

As I was a'walking one evening of late Where fragrant fine flowers the field decorate, I carelessly rambled where I did not know By the fair crystal fountain that falls in Glencoe. And on her who the prize on Mount Ider was won, Then approched me a lassy as b...

Dubhdara, he's a-sailing Far out in the blue ocean Far beyond the misty mountain On the sun stream he's riding with the wind Lost in a million dips and hollows Swallowed in the racing horses Dubhdara will always return To take me up in his arms Angel...

I'm eighteen years old today, mama, and I'm longing to be wed So buy for me a young man to comfort me, she said You must buy for me a young man who will stay with me all night And I'll roll him in my arms He'll be my heart's delight Ah, hold your tongue,...

Éirigh suas a Stóirín mura bfhuil tú do shuí Foscail a' doras agus lig mise 'un tí Ta buidéal im aice bhéarfas deoch Do mhnaoi an tí A's tá súil 'gam nach ndiúltuigheann Tú mé fa do níon I ngleanntain na coilleadh uaigní Is lag brónach a bim Ó Dhomnac...

Oh draw near each young lover Give ear to my story that bears my sad mournful tale Come and join me in chorus and lend me your pity Whilst I my misfortune bewail The grief of my poor heart no tongue can disclose My cheeks are now pale they once bloomed like th...

Turn it inside out so I can see-uh The part of you That's driffting over me - uh And when I wake you're- you're never there And when I sleep you're - you're everywhere You're everywhere Just tell me how I got this far Just tell me why you're here and who yo...

I'm falling like a star, and I'm holding on for dear life I'm about to reach the ground I'm coming home to Earth I've reached my town And they said that you couldn't sit on a cloud, cause you'd fall right through Well how is it then, that I managed to? And ho...

False, false have you been to me my love How often have you changed your mind? But since you've gone and left me, for another fair one I'm afraid you are no more mine But I would climb a tree that is too high for me Asking fruit where there weren't any g...

Fil, fil a rún ó Fil, fil a rún ó is ná himigh uaim Fillorm a chuisle's a stór Agus Chifidh tú 'n ghlóir má fhillean tú Shúil mise thall is abhus I móta ghrainn' óige do rudagh mé 'S ni fhaca aon iontas go foil Mar an sagart Ó Dónaill 'na mhinistir F...

This is really not my home Oh where are you my lovely Johnny? I'm afraid and all alone There is no peace for me I'm sitting in the stranger's room Playing at the stranger's table Shining empty like the moon There is no peace for me But in the darkness struggl...

Every time you touch my face Every time you touch my face I feel your soul's amazing grace Every time Every time you touch my face I'll try to love you tenderly I'll try to love you tenderly Loving you comes easily I'll try to love I try to love you tenderly...

Green grows the laurel, soft falls the dew, Sorry was I love when parting from you, But at our next meeting I hope you'll prove true, And we'll join the laurel and the violet so blue. I once had a sweetheart but now I have none, He's gone and he's left me to...

Kind friends and companions, together combine And raise up your voices in chorus with mine We will drink and be merry, all grief to refrain For we may and might never all meet here again Here's a health to the company and one to my lass We will drink and be m...

Days, turning from red to green It's hard to believe that spring Is here so soon and I've been gone so long Keep, sending your letters on Memories of home are still Haunting my days and I am losing my way High tide, changing moods Familiar faces I know High...

For too long time I've been a stranger here To the hills above Glenshane And your rocks and your rain Where the silent souls haunt the Priory walls In the wind they sing "Come away, come away" To the murmuring stream with the town below And the babbling...

I am a youth inclined to ramble, To some foreign country I mean to steer, I am loath to part my friends and comrades, And my dear sweatheart, whom I loved dear. But there's one of those I do most admire, One her 'll think when I 'm far away, For since fates de...

I wish I was in heaven high, For night and day I just wait and cry, And from my arms he flew one night, To where I cannot find. I wish I had the wings to fly, For in this world he left no sign, But maybe someday he'll bring me back, To where I cannot find. H...

The leaves fall from the trees like gold And I tell you that I love you so The river sings, it's time to go What lies ahead we'll never know And summer brings sweet memories When we danced all night on the dusty streets With an angel watching over me Your lov...

Infant holy, Infant lowly For His bed a cattle stall Oxen lowing, little knowing Christ the babe is Lord of all Swift are winging, angels singing Noels ringing, tidings bringing Christ the babe is Lord of all Christ the babe is Lord of all Flocks are...

A ship’s crew of sailors as you may understand
Bound for the West Indies or some foreign land There’s one lad amongst them I wish I never knew
He’s my bonnie, bonnie sailor with a jacket so blue The first time I saw my love he’d a spy glass in his hand
I we...

You maidens now pity this sorrowful moan I make I am a young maiden in grief for my darling sake My true lovers absence in sorrow I grieve full sore And each day I lament for my Jimmy mó mhíle stór Now these twelve months and better my darling has left th...

The high, high walls of Derry look so dismal and grey And so does lovely Johnny, he is gone far, far away And He's gone away to Scotland some sweetheart for to see May the high powers above send him safe home to me Oh, Johnny, lovely Johnny, do you mind t...

Dear thoughts are my mind and my soul it soars enchanted, As I hear the sweet lark sing in the clear air of the day, For a tender beaming smile to my hope has been granted, And tomorrow he shall hear all my fond heart longs to say. I will tell him all my love...

The first time I met my Moorlough Mary
Twas in the market of Sweet Strabane
Her killing glances were so engaging
The hearts of young men she did trepann Her killing glances berefit my senses
Of peace or comfort either night or day And in silent slumber I st...

Oh my Donald he works upon the sea
On the waves that blow wild and free He splices the ropes and he sets the sails
While southward he rolls to the home of the whale 
And he ne'er thinks of me far behind
Nor the torments that rage in my mind
He's mine for onl...

If you want me I'll be at your door And if you need me I'll be by your side Cos every day is a long winding road And I'll always be here don't you know I wonder why, I wonder why, I wonder why I always try, I wonder why, I wonder why Everytime I look at you...

When you feel so tired trying When you ask and no-one knows When your heart is tired fighting When you feel like letting go Take this love I've freely given Take this dream I'm wishing for How long is forever If I can't see you anymore I'll miss you most when...

As I went out on a bright morning To take a pleasant walk I sat down beside an old stone wall Just to hear two lovers talk For to hear two lovers talk, my love To hear what thay might say So I might learn a little more, love Before I go away P stands...

No, Please don't go. No, Please don't leave yet. You haven't heard me sing yet You haven't seen my heart You cannot understand yet, what it means to be old River run, River deep River come, So I can sing you to sleep River High River Low River g...

It was early, early all in the spring When my love Willie went to serve the king The night being dark and the wind blew high Which parted me from my sailor boy Oh father, father, build me a boat For on the ocean I mean to float To watch the big ships as...

My young love said to me 'My mother won't mind And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind' And she stepped away from me and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day' She stepped away from me, and she went through th...

She's like a swallow that flies so high, Like a river that never runs dry, Like the sunshine on the lee shore, She loves her love and love's no more. 'Tis out in the meadow this fair maid did go, Picking the lovely primrose, The more she plucked the more she...

I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche Hhmmm... Tumbling and falling down the avalanche Hhmmm... So be quiet tonight the stars to shine bright On this mountain of new fallen snow And I will raise up my voice into the void You've left me nowhere to go...

This tune was composed by Spencer the Rover As valliant a man had ever left home Well he had been much reduced and caused great confusion And that was the reason he started to roam In Yorkshire, near Rotherham, he had been on the ramble And weary of trav...

Through the mist my ship has sailed, leaving me behind All things left unsaid, that were in my mind When I stood on this deck, strange things I saw Strange they have vanished now I'm standing on the shore Sandy hills all around, nothing standing clear Softly...

Tráthnóinín déanach i gcéin cois leasa dom Táimse im' chodhladh is ná dúistear mé Sea dhearcas lem' thaobh an spéirbhean mhaisiúil Táimse im' chodhladh is ná dúistear mé
Ba bhachallach péarlach dréimreach barrachas A carnfholt craobhach ag titim léi ar bha...

When first to this country, a stranger I came I placed my affection on a maid that was young She being fair and tender, her waist small and slender Kind Nature had formed her for my overthrow On the banks of the Bann when first I beheld her She appeared...

Oh I know a wee spot, 'tis place of great fame And it lies to the North, now I'll tell you its name It's my own native birthplace and it's on Irish soil And they call it lovely Derry on the banks of the Foyle Now I courted a young man, and his age was nin...

Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my childhood Which now and forever I am going to leave Farewell to the shores, where the shamrock is growing It's the bright spot of beauty and the home of the brave I'll think on its valleys with fond admiration Though ne...

A stream like crystal it flows down It's clear for to be seen And it's there you'll find the Irish oak Trimmed with the ivy green Where the shamrock and thistle grow The lily too beside And they flourish all together, boys Along the Faughan side We...

In a land of O'Cahan where bleak mountains rise O'er those brown ridgy tops now the dusky clouds fly Deep sunk in a valley a wild flower did grow And her name was Finvola, the Gem of the Roe For the Isles of Abunde appeared to out view A youth clad in tarta...

For too long time I've been a stranger here To the hills above Glenshane And your rocks and your rain Where the silent souls haunt the Priory walls In the wind they sing "Come away, come away" To the murmuring stream with the town below And the babbling...

One bright summer morning as day was a dawning Bright Phoebus had risen shone over the lea I spied a fair maiden all down by the river While herding her flocks on the hills of Glenshee I stood in amazement, said I, "Pretty fair maid If you will come down...

Hold out your hand, love We'll figure this out You don't need to leave And never look back But take your own time, love But give it a chance There's life in these fields Like there's rhythm in dance Stay by my side, love And give it a doubt Your br...

As the lonesome scenes of winter in stormy winds to blow, Clouds around the center inclined to frost and snow, You're the boy that I have chosen to be my only dear, Your scornful heart is frozen and drifted far I fear. One night I went to see my love, but he...

Leaving sweet lovely Derry for fair London town, There is no finer harbour all around can be found, Where the children each evening go down to the shore, And the joy bells are ringing for the maid of Culmore. The first time I met her she passed me by, And the...

Of all the money that e'er I had, I spent it in good company. And of all the harm that e'er I've done, alas it was to none but me. And all I've done for want of wit, to memory now I can't recall. So fill to me the parting glass. Goodnight and joy be with yo...

Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed Some say love it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed Some say love it is a hunger an endless aching need I say love it is a flower and you its only seed It's the heart afraid of breaking that neve...

Sit you down, loyal comrades Sit you down for a while 'Til I spend my last hours on Erin's green isle Come fill up your glasses and we'll drink hand in hand For tomorrow I'll be leaving the shores of Lough Bran There's my father and mother, you can now h...

The snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing The corn it ripens fastest when the frosts are settlin in And when the young man tells me that my face he'll soon forget Before we part I'll wage a crown, he's fain to follow yet And the snows they...

After the morning there comes an evening And after the evening another day And after a false love there comes a true love I'd have you listen now to what I say I swear my love is the finest young man As fair as any the sun shines on But how to save him, I do...

When the cuckoo is calling Over wood, land, and valley And the tern and the swallow Flies over our bay Then it's longing I'll be For the land of my father Where Bann and Blackwater Sweep down to Loch Neagh A home I have made In the land of the stran...

As I roved out one evening fair By the verdant braes of Skreen I set my back to a hawthorn tree To view the sun in the west country And the dew on the forest green A lad I spied by Abhann's side And a maiden by his knee And he was as dark as the very b...

Some poets sing of a noble king All of a sweetheart fair Some tell a tale of ships that sail With treasures rich and rare But my humble pen still drifts again To scenes of long ago Across the sea to the Benedy And the winding river Roe Right well do...

My song for you this evening Is not to make you sad Nor for adding to the sorrows Of our troubled northern land But lately I've been thinking And it just wont leave my mind I'll tell you about two friends one time Who were both good friends of mine Isaac he w...

When all is said and done You're still a lucky one And I've lost out again this time You said that we were strong Said that we'd go on and on Do you see that you were wrong this time? Now I want to tell you If you wanted to break me If you wanted to see me fa...

Rise up, rise up, come everyone, and worship your new king And join with us in chorus here the choirs of angels sing Sweet Mary bore the son of God, a baby born of light She gave to us a Savior pure upon a winter’s night The shepherds gazed in wonder on t...

Some walls are made of stone Some times we build our own Some walls will stand for years Some wash away with tears Some walls are lined with gold Some hearts stay safe and cold Some walls are made of doubt Holding in and keeping out If there's any hope for l...

Where are you now And who's by your side Can't hide for a lifetime Uncover your eyes Wake up, in the morning Share the sunlight shining down on us You and me Are these sad days always lost on us Where am I now and who's on my side I'd wait for a lifetime For...