Mary Black

Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind, Possessing and caressing me. Jai guru de va om Nothing's gonna change my world,...

Adam's at the window staring at the apple trees on fire Waiting for the windfall that brings the smile of kings and their desire Door blows in behind him, a floral pattern, summer dress so gay Burning in the sunlight, too late to wait, for darkness won't delay...

A little maiden climbed an old man's knee Begged for a story - "Do, uncle, please!" "Why are you single, why live alone? Have you no babies, have you no home?" "I had a sweetheart, years, years ago Where she is now, pet, you will soon know List to the story, I...

I used to think joy, was the break between sorrow, Like peace was the break between wars, I'm still partly new now, but mostly older, And I can not say I'm so sure. Chorus I never trusted happiness, as far as I could throw it, Always preparing for the worst,...

As I'm leaving a change come on my eyes These streets persuading me with mumbled strange goodbyes Through the water through the ring - To the soul of everything Throw my heart out on the stones and I'm almost gone There's no meaning in clothes and coffee cups...

Harking is bonnie And there lives my love My heart lies on him And will not remove It will not remove Oh for all that I have done Oh I never will forget my love Anachie For Anachie Gordon He's bonnie and he's rough He'd entice any woman that ever he saw He'd...

Hey little brother the winds of the world Have ruffled your soft and weakened wings And though I can't hold you as I look into your eyes I can see the film that disappointment brings I know it's rained upon your childhood dreams The games you've been playing W...

As I leave behind Neidin It's like purple splashed on green My soul is strangely fed Through the winding hills ahead And she plays a melody On wind and streams for me Won't you remember? Won't you remember? Won't you remember me? And we wind and climb and fa...

Babs in the wood walking thru' snow Big bad wolf at the window Not much choice in the matter now Some must lead some must follow Touch can mean distance to some people Touch can mean prison or be like a cage I always thought that life could be more simple Spe...

Long long before I put a face on love The one thing I knew was that Like anything love can surprise you One kiss and you brought me a lifetime Do you know what that means to me You give me the answer to whether I bleed Deep in the darkest night oh, I wake you...

The day won't open it's eyes The heavens above must be sick I'm stood at the windows since five All decked out for the trip Hey hey I'm dying to meet with you Hey hey I'm living to speak with you Hey hey I'm waiting to meet you baby Hey hey hey Chorus Big t...

Remember when we walked on hills of heather Singing weaving mystical rings Now in a while my precious child You wil unfurl your wings And I'll have lost what I believed Had promised everything But before you go my friend, my kind companion Listen to this song...

Every now and then you like to take it easy Sit right back and view the situation The future is brighter Soon we'll be riding on the crest of a wave Chorus Goodbye to all your troubles Change of heart the world will start today It's a new beginning See it sh...

I skimmed across black water Without once submerging Onto the banks of an urban morning That hungers the first light Much, much more than mountains ever do And she, like a ghost beside me Goes down with the ease of a dolphin And emerges unlearned, unshamed, u...

A tall tree turn and face the west Oh we're running with the wind A high clifftop we're waiting with the rest For this journey to begin Chorus But these broken wings won't fly These broken wings won't fly These broken wings won't fly at all And oh how we la...

Baby every cloud has a silver lining Baby every dog really has his day And it matters to me to see you smiling Why don't you blow all your cares away Yesterday is gone and will be forgotten And today is where every new day starts Got to be free as the leaves i...

I don't know if you can see the changes that have come over me in these last few days I've been afraid that I might drift away so I've been telling old stories, singing songs that make me think about where I came from and that's the reason why I seem so...

Stories never end 'til you come to conclusions: Carolina ruadh has a hand in my confusion. Waits for me to choose which quarter to bend in. To susie-make-me-blue, or the redhead I'm attending. Oh carolina ruadh has my heart and all I want to do's Go down the...

Well did you ever make colcannon, Made with lovely pickled cream With the greens & scallions mingled Like a pitcher in a dream Did you ever make a hole on top To hold the meltin' flake Or the creamy flavoured butter That our mother's used to make Chorus...

Better keep your distance from this whale Better keep your boat from going astray Find yourself a partner and treat them well Try to give them shelter night and day 'Cos here in this blue light Far away from the fireside Things can get twisted and haunted and...

There's a wilderness It's a no man's land Between alice springs and the ocean Seventeen hundred miles of burning sand And a silken thread keeps a hold on you When the emptieness like a potion tends to fray your reason strand by strand And there's no more need...

The letter stopped in a minor key A Christmas card that you drew for me Done by the hand that I knew so well Disguised the message that you could not tell I see you bent above your potter's wheel The piece you've throwing is the piece you feel The softest col...

I have written this song For you to take with you When you go away Something to sing and slowly swing to On your colder days I have made a start With a verse and a chorus The rest I leave to you And when next I see your smiling face We might sing it right thro...

This old house is falling down around my ears I'm drowning in a river of my tears When all my will is gone, you hold me sway I need you at the dimming of the day You pull me like the moon pulls on the tide You know just where I keep my better side What days...

Late glow on an early winter evening in dockland With my ship of dreams moving easily across the sound Reminiscence is weighting me down with a vengeance Tide water so deep I think I'm going to drown But in the wink of an eye I am rising above the affliction...

Hush now, don't explain You're my joy and pain Skip that lipstick Don't explain Hush now, don't explain My lost will be your gain You’re back , andI'm glad Don't explain You know that I love you And what love endures Please no one above you I'm so complete...

I'm giving up on tv it's not making sense Gotta trust ourselves it's the last line of defence Spinning into space running out of time Gathering together all the useful things we find Chorus So don't say okay and be half-hearted I'm afraid that this feeling g...

Chorus With your dark hair in the donegal breeze, Bringing me softly and sweetly to the ground, But, there's madness in the sycamore trees, And there's no salvation to be found. Right now the only thing that my mind ever holds, Are long dark silences or screa...

From the corner of my eye I see a tear rolling down At the time I couldn't tell whose tear it was If it was mine I should be glad That I still function in this cage But if it's yours it only makes me more lost To see a tear rolling down To see a tear rolling d...

I'm really close tonight I feel like I'm moving inside him Lying in the dark I think that I'm beginning to know him Let it go I'll be there when you call Chorus And whenever I fall at your feet Won't you let your tears rain down one me Whenever I touch your...

Farewell, farewell to you who would hear You lonely travelers all The cold north winds will blow again The winding road does call. And will you never return to see Your bruised and beaten sons Oh I would, I would if welcome I were For they loathe me every one...

It was one of those days When to shine was of no value One of those days When the language had no grace We were miles apart And I stood there with my head spinning Just another poor soul Trying hard not to lose faith We had it engraved We had the key to a uni...

You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold So she took her love for to gaze awhile upon the fields of barley In his arms she fell as her hair came down among the f...

If we leave here today We could be a thousand miles away Take to that road, see how far it goes And on that great ocean road Oh the country's in our bones All the trouble that you know Empties out as you go Oh walk with me, talk with me Tell me your stories I...

Phone calls and taxi-rides And somebody's leaving Misunderstandings get out of control And the right words get left And the wrong words get spoken He's gone but not your pride Chorus Not much can help The full heart that's breaking Can't find the words And y...

Gabriel Gabriel Open you heart and mine as well Oh Gabriel Gabriel Save this heart from hell Heaven knows I love you And heaven knows how true I'd be for you People have their failings And I know that I've got mine I know I've been ungrateful I know I've bee...

Them that's got shall get Them that's not shall lose So the Bible said but it still is news Mama may have, Papa may have God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own Rich relations give Crust of bread and such You can help yourself But don't tak...

There is a lighthouse in the harbor Giving guidance with its light But I had no one to return to As I wander through life From the first time that I saw you Standing silent by the shore I knew my search was over And I would look for love no more Deep in the...

I'm walkin' along golden mile with a soldier's twirl I must be the luckiest soul in the whole wide world O foolish thing here I go again There's no faith more innocent than blind faith And that's all I've got So I'm scaling the walls of my dreams Ready or not...

I looked into a mirror made of lines With tiny symbols here and there to make the image mine A woman stood and painted and showed me what to find The different parts, the fire, the air, and where my life would climb And where it joins another, and what would a...

Good morning heartache, you old gloomy sight Good morning heartache, thought we said goodbye last night I turned and tossed until it seemed you had gone But here you are with the dawn Wish I'd forget you, but you're here to stay It seems I met you when my lov...

I Seems like the morning lights hereafter Can weigh much more than you can hold Somehow tomorrow's lines and laughter Can turn around and look so cold Ii And you can hang your head in sorrow The restless nights when troubles come And stand alone and f...

Traveling at night, the headlights were bright And we'd been up many an hour And all through my brain Came the refrain Of home and it's warming fire [Chorus] And Home Sings me of sweet things My life there has it's own wings To fly over the mountai...

O come all ye maids who live at a distance Many's a mile from off your sway Come and assist me this very moment For to pass away some time Singing sweetly and completely Songs of pleasure and of love For me heart is with him altogether Though I live not where...

He said darling I'm in love with you mind The way you care for me it's so kind Love to see you again wish I had more time He was laughing as he brushed my cheek Why don't you call me baby maybe next week Promise now cross your heart and hope to die Chorus Bu...

The moment I wake up, before I put on my make up I say a little prayer for you While combing my hair now And wonderin' what dress to wear now I say a little prayer for you Forever, forever you'll stay in my heart And I will love you forever and ever We never...

When times are hard and friends are few And you need someone to help you through Just call my name and I'll come running to your side Don't be afraid don't be afraid I will be there When you are lost in the night No where to run I will be there Don't be afrai...

If I gave my heart to you Would you promise to be true It would break my heart in two If you left me waiting anticipating Till some other magic day I may steal your heart away Then you would take my hand And then understand me When you'd really see me In a w...

Something about this is precious, something about this is sad Something about this is better, than I've ever had Hard and lean, you know what I mean? How do the roots become tangled? why does the spirit grow tired? Where is the key to your kingdom? yes that'...

Cast my boat out to the ocean And set it sails to the wind Gentle breeze blowing into my heart I'm alive in this gentle world A life carefree A life carefree And in this love that you give me You have to share the joy and mystery The wonder of your smile And...

You've got no reason to say you're all alone There will be a change of season That'll win a heart of stone Chorus Love is just around the corner And standin' out of view Love is just around the corner For you I can see a smile tomorrow A reason to go on The...

Tumbling curls of green by stained glass streaming light And a yellow colored lampshade used to keep us up all night And the smile upon your face, a tear upon your cheek And the night sky on the window your heart calling out to me Come running home again Katie...

Oh Mary Jane, she step on the train Head for the city light Yearning inside to swim with the tide And taste it all night Bag on her shoulder, breathing the cold There by the metal tracks She saw it all shine and swore in her mind She'd never go back She don't...

It's a cold old world that we're walking through They ought to tell you at the start But it's warm as toast walkin' two by two Lay down the burden of your heart Lay down the burden of your heart I know you'll never miss it Just show me, angel, where it hurts...

It's time to go, jenny No need to close the door What if the dust gets in the house It doesn't matter any more You and the dust have been at war for far too many years Now the war is over jenny dear. Chorus Leaving the land Leaving the land Leaving all I've...

I never cared about the car I'd drive Or the room I'd sleep or the bus I'd ride Just as long as I could get somewhere And not get hurt I could breathe out there I knew I could be free out there ... could be me I never cared about the word prestige About no in...

I went to church on Sunday My love, she passed me by I knew her mind was changing By the roving of her eye By the roving of her eye By the roving of her eye I knew her mind was changing By the roving of her eye My love's fair and proper Her waist is neat and...

Chorus A message of love, right to your heart Comes from above, to make a new start To spark a new flame, That will ring the world round Playing destiny's game And creating her sound in a message Of love Tell all your friends, our time is here We're on our w...

Lying here watching the time pass I could think of a million things I'd rather do Travel at my own pace Put myself asleep if I wanted to Chorus Might as well be behind bars Than be lashed to a wave that I can't haul Might as well be a slave Lying low in the...

Curfa 'si mo laoch, mo ghile mear 'si mo chaesar, ghile mear. Suan na sian nm bhfuaireas fiin O chuaigh in gciin mo ghile mear. Bmmse buan ar buairt gach ls Ag caoi go ctuaidh 's ag tuar na ndeor Mar scaoileadh uaim an buachaill beo 's na rmomhtar tuairisc ua...

These are the moments that we love so well Precious moments caught within a spell All too soon our lives thay fade away These are the moments that we wish would stay If I had my life to live again I would choose to be with you my friend Time moves slowly and...

Moon river, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style some day Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way Two drifters, off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'ro...

Oh my Donald he works on 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 o' me far behind Nor the torments that rage in my mind He's mine for only par...

My youngest son came home today his friends marched with him all the way the pipe and drum beat out the time while in his box of polished pine like dead meat on a butcher's tray my youngest son came home today my youngest son was a fine young man with...

I City walls where the neon spits as it falls Two dark shadows fade in the night This is no place for love And in the park where the streetlight kisses the dark Silent waves and times they're own They'll have their own way now Ii In the nighttime neon sunset...

If life is a river and your heart is a boat And just like a water baby, baby born to float And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high And your heart is Amelia dying to fly Heaven knows no frontiers And I've seen heaven in your eyes And if life is a bar...

Seemed like I'd gone off the side of a mountain Couldn't be sure I was even alive Fallen from the icy heights Landed with a broken cry In this valley of shadows and sorrow and sighs Can you save me baby [Chorus] Nobody lives without love Nobody gets to give u...

I found your letter in my mailbox today You were just checking if I was okay And if I miss you, well you know what they say Just once in a very blue moon Just once in a very blue moon Just once in a very blue moon And I feel one coming on soon No need to ask...

I do not see the way out I do not really know how Like a shot in the dark Went your hallowed ground Had you taken too much Kept me well out of touch And refused to let me go? I cannot see to your pain I do not hear you complain You are now but a dot In the p...

There you may stand in your splendor and jewels Swaying me in both directions One is the right one, the other for fools How do I make my selection? The city lies silent in the warm morning light The sand is as golden as saffron Oasis of love, sweet water of li...

[Chorus] My heart is low my heart is so low As only a woman's heart can be As only a woman's as only a woman's As only a woman's heart can know The tears that drip From my bewildered eyes Taste of bitter sweet romance You're still in my hopes You're still on...

They sent you down a paper friend I hear And you went back on all the vows you once held so dear There you stretched so calm and quiet And things looked good now don't deny it You walked on air for fifteen minutes And after that there was nothing in it You don...

Last night I dreamed you were back again Larger than life again, holding me tight again Placing those same kisses on my brow Sweeter than ever now, Lord I remember how Couldn't get enough of kissing, do you know how much I'm missing No you don't, but I d...

I remember when we were sweethearts I was safe with you, you were my protector Those days are over, now I need someone Someone to keep me safe from you Love was all we had, we were young and sure Who'd expect their love would turn to war I don't know who to p...

Faith won't heal up everthing The wound grows and you believe in love Walk around feeling cut in two, Wide open, with your hear on view All you bereaved, all you besotted boys in need, When love won't heel you, wh, why believe she will? O lyubvi malyu otchaya...

I'm the latest apparition Cutting slices in the night I come through without permission Moving in and out of human sight I'm the tapping on your shoulder I am the raving in the storm I'll take shelter in you rafters I'm the shiver when you're warm I'm the go...

Ring them bells, ye heathen From the city that dreams Ring them bells from the sanctuaries Cross the valleys and streams For they're deep and they're wide And the world's on its side And time is running backwards And so is the bride Ring the bells St. Peter...

When I lay down to take my rest Most of the time my minds on happiness, yes Some of the time but not for long I get a feeling of something that's yet to come I get a picture telling me what's undone When I find out that you don't love me honey When I find out...

Schooldays over, come on then john Time to be getting your pit boots on On with your sack and your moleskin trousers Time you were on your way Time you were learning the pitman's job And earning a pitman's pay. Come on then jim, it's time to go Time you were...

My love said to me My Mother won't mind And me Father won't slight you For you lack of kind Then 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 moved through the Fair And fondly I wa...

I can see it in your eyes What I know in my heart is true That our love it has faded like the summer run through So we walk doen the shore line one last time together Feel the wind blow our wandering hearts like a feather But who knows who's waiting in the win...

The moon was full And their hearts were empty When I stopped to watch the river go down Saw the gleaming eyes On your blind two corners Heard the shuffle of the buckled As they come to lay their money down Ooo not even with his money down And he fades in the...

VERSE 1: Walking all the day Near tall towers where falcons build their nests Silver-winged they fly They know the call of freedom in their breasts Saw Black Head against the sky Where twisted rocks they run down to the sea CHORUS: Living on your west...

Looking back Down that long road you have traveled And I see All the pain that you have suffered Young girl walks on ancient sand Desert flower in her hand Barefoot on the red heartland Innocence makes few demands Heart and soul, my soul sister You got that...

I cannot stop this child from touching me I see not fault in watching her bloom She knows where fire begins and where sparks might fly Yet I feel she may be consumed. She done turns on the b stage She shook hands when the shoe fit I wanna know how the land li...

He don't know how to lie Or undermine you He don't know how to steal How to deal or deceive So leave him alone, set him free Cause he's speaking with the angel That only he can see You say he's so helpless Well what about you You don't pull the strings Don't...

Something must be done About my state of heart Woke with it this morning And now it's nearly dark I don't know what to do The blame must lie with you Chorus: Falling, falling, I'm falling for you. I'm falling, falling, falling And you're living in a glass ja...

Night owns my white bones but What's left is still saying Strange prayers in high places Wild airs with wilder graces Birds fly with no motion What draws me draws the ocean Chorus Down on my knees again, Still believing In the time of reason no more Down on...

I Once in a while I can smile that old smile And I know I'm in trouble again Even though you get older that old tap on the shoulder Will turn you again and again Chorus I couldn't change it, I've never arranged it That's what the strange bit's always...

When the morning comes I gaze on you with desire When the morning comes My look will be perfectly plain When the morning comes My beloved one When the morning comes You'll know that we both feel the same In the afternoon Misgivings will pale into nothing In t...

The sky collapsed around us, you didn't seem to care I hailed you through the raindrops, you weren't even there. I juggle with the breakfast, you fret behind the sheets I want you to be steadfast, you want to be released. Chorus: Oh my pretty darling, where...

The sheep's in the meadow The cow's in the corn Now is the time for a child to be born You'll laugh at the moon and you'll cry for the sun And if it's a boy he'll carry a gun Sang the crow on the cradle And if it should be that this baby's a girl Never you mi...

Some days the fog in monterey comes Blowing from the grove above, and then tears away The drifting patches lift and fold Then sunlight cuts them white and cold In monterey -- fog comes, oh, then It tears away A heart sick lover comes to stay; She leaves the o...

Farewell my lovely johnny, A thousand times adieu You are going away from the holy ground And the ones that love you true You will sail the salt seas over And then return for sure To see again the ones you love And the holy ground once more You're on the salt...

It reads like a fairytale And that's what it was Young man in his prime Young girl from the cross The most perfect of strangers And then the night closed in And the holy ground took care of everything Now she was a fine one And he was a handsome man One look...

When I was young I spoke like a child, and I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to all your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart, and the lure of the open spaces...

Oh the sky was clear, the morn was fair No breath came over the sea When Mary left her highland home And wandered forth with me All the flowers decked the mountainside And fragrance filled the vale By far the sweetest flower there Was the rose of Allendale Sw...

And it's over now The guns have flowed The nightmare flashed On a cradle road As the guilty rain came down No child to hold Through anxious fears No gentle hand To catch the tears That soak this ancient ground The smile that breaks so gently Belies a troubled...

The water is wide, I can't cross o'er Ad neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat that can carry two And we shall row, my love and I For love is gentle, and love is kind The sweetest flower when first it's new But love grows old and waxes cold And fades awa...

There is a time in life it seems For believing in dreams, for me it's gone And though I realize today Dreams are empty anyway, I still feel wronged. Chorus I felt cheated when you went away But not as defeated as I felt the day You came back and we found so...

Like a jazz refrain the midnight train is callin' Hey, you'd best go soon the late night moon is fallin' Let the nightbirds whisper to themselves This train pulls out at twelve High tides breakin' on the shores, church bell tolls Chorus: There's a train that...

Its taste was sweet like summer wine The heart that beats in double time So he waltzed right in and bowled you over And you're still reeling from the feeling when he's gone The door is closed the lock is turned And all the memories and letters have been burned...

O love is never easy It's almost always out of your way It's not the path of least resistance It's not some words you get to say It's a stream running up a mountain It's a wave rolling out from the shore Wish I could say I never felt that way before I have a...

When I see you coming In your trespass shoes Hear the song you're humming How can i refuse With your half drunk bottle And your slurring tongue Singing sentimental Don't it always make me feel so young Been alone We've been together Stood at toe to toe Gettin...

We don't always live in harmony And often there are times when we are enemies I fight with you, and you fight with me Trying to get the balance right. Sometimes we cause each other pain Sometimes our wills are not the same And often we tire of the strain Tryi...

[Chorus] In darkness we do what we can In daylight we're oblivion Our hearts so raw and clear Are turning away, turning away from here On water we have walked like the fearless child What was fastened we've unlocked revealing wondrous wild And in search for...

Well, I woke up today and found frost perched on the town It hovered in a frozen sky and gobbled summer down And when the sun turned straight and cold And shivering trees are standing in a naked row I get the urge for going, but I never seem to go I had someo...

Big bad man's law doesn't carry much sway When you come around here You can still scratch my back And I can still change sides Don't carry no torch 'til you have it in type That I'm doing okay It's only one man's outlook It could be one more lie Look at it cl...

What does it matter if the sun don't rise It's midnight forever in my Jimmy's eyes What should it matter if it comes on to spring When I'm finding winter in everything Lived in this cold wind city all of my life Walking around still looks the same Same people...

Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving But how can they know it's time for them to go? Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming I do not count the time For who knows where the time goes? Who knows where the time goes? Sad, deserted shore,...

I know it's the same old song I'm singing But this time these words are just for you That's the only thing that's new I know that I've sung about a million Borrowed lines and phrases from a few This one's till as good as new Without the fanfare I love you By...

This child he means the world to me There is no more enchanted A child can take this place of ruin And magically enhance it I see him in a golden room With the book of life before him Strange instruments upon his charts And the crystal glow inside him He's yo...