My Love
little baby
don't cry like that
God's gonna buy you a cadillac.
He's chosen you do do his will
you can spread the word in your coupe de ville.
So jump in the river and learn to swim
God's gonna wash away all yovr sins.
And if you still can't see the light
God's gonna buy you a satellite.
Look to the heavens and see it shine
heals the sick and leads the blind
Tune it in and hear it say
it's counting down to judgement day.
So jump in the river and learn to swim
God's gonna wash away all your sins. . .
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