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Westlife – Home (Official Video) #Christmas

 

Westlife

Published on Oct 2, 2009

Westlife’s official music video for ‘Home’. Click to listen to Westlife on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/WestlifeSpot?IQid=… As featured on Westlife – Greatest Hits. Click to buy the track or album via iTunes: http://smarturl.it/WestlifeGHiTunes?I… Google Play: http://smarturl.it/WestlifeHomeGplay?… Amazon: http://smarturl.it/WestlifeGHAmazon?I… Stream more music from Westlife here: http://smarturl.it/WestlifeMultiStrea… More from Westlife My Love: https://youtu.be/ulOb9gIGGd0 You Raise Me Up: https://youtu.be/9bxc9hbwkkw If I let You Go: https://youtu.be/7NrQei36fJk More great 00’s videos here: http://smarturl.it/Ultimate00?IQid=Wl… Follow Westlife Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Westlife Twitter: https://twitter.com/westlifemusic Subscribe to Westlife on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/WestlifeYTSub?IQid… ——— Lyrics: Another summer day, Has come and gone away, In Paris and Rome, I want to go home, Mmmmmm Maybesurrounded by, A million people I, Still feel all alone, I just want to go home, Oh I miss you, You know, And I’ve been keeping all the letters, That I wrote to you, Each one a line or two, I’m fine baby how are you, Well I would send them but, I know it’s that it’s just not enough, The words were cold and flat, And you deserve more, Than that, another winter day, Has come and gone away, In either Paris and Rome, And I Want To Go Home, I miss you, You know, Let me go home, I’ve had my run, Baby I’m done, I want to go home, Let me go home, It’ll all be alright, I’ll be home tonight, I’m coming back home.
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Dolores Keane – The Island #musicaware

‘The Island’ by Paul Brady (1985)

County Tyrone native Paul Brady used his song ‘The Island’ to draw some comparisons between the Troubles and the civil war in Lebanon that began in 1975. A pacifistic song highlighting the tragedy of the cycles of violence that Ireland had been experiencing for centuries, it contrasts the peaceful image of a couple making love on an island with acts of terrorism and war.

Lyrics

The Island (Paul Brady)

They say the skies of Lebanon are burning.
Those mighty cedars bleeding in the heat.
They’re showing pictures on the television.
Women and children dying in the street
And we’re still at it in our own place.
Still trying to reach the future through the past.
Still trying to carve tomorrow from a tombstone…

But Hey! Don’t listen to me!.
This wasn’t meant to be no sad song.
We’ve heard too much of that before.
Right now I only want to be here with you.
Till the morning dew comes falling.
I want to take you to the island.
And trace your footprints in the sand.
And in the evening when the sun goes down
We’ll make love to the sound of the ocean

They’re raising banners over by the markets
Whitewashing slogans on the shipyard walls
Witchdoctors praying for a mighty showdown
No way our holy flag is gonna fall
Up here we sacrifice our children
To feed the worn-out dreams of yesterday
And teach them dying will lead us into glory…

Now I know us plain folks don’t see all the story.
And I know this peace and love’s just copping out.
And I guess these young boys dying in the ditches.
Is just what being free is all about.
And how this twisted wreckage down on main street.
Will bring us all together in the end.
And we’ll go marching down the road to freedom….
Freedom

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Geoffrey Downes / Trevor Charles Horn

The Island lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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.@musicbyloah – Lord If I ever needed someone, I Need You. (Van Morrison cover) #prayer

Loah – If I Ever Needed Someone (Van Morrison Cover) #RaveOnVanMorrison

6,446 views•Premiered Aug 25, 2020 1487ShareSavehotpressmagazine Loah performs ‘If I Ever Needed Someone’ by Van Morrison during lockdown, as part of Rave On, Van Morrison – the celebration of the work of the legendary Irish songwriter, curated by Hot Press magazine, to mark Van’s 75th birthday, on August 31, 2020. Rave On, Van Morrison includes over 75 videos by artists from the island of Ireland, home of creativity – and of truly extraordinary music… http://www.hotpress.com/van-morrison/ To commemorate the 75th birthday of one of Ireland’s greatest ever songwriters and performers, the August issue of Hot Press is a Van Morrison Special, which tracks his amazing career all the way back to the 1960s. https://shop.hotpress.com/collections… Support Hot Press by subscribing here: https://shop.hotpress.com/collections… Subscribe to the Hot Press Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXgw… Where to buy the finest Hot Press merch: https://shop.hotpress.com/ Follow Hot Press on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotpressmag… Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hotpressmaga… Twitter: https://twitter.com/hotpress

If I Ever Needed Someone

Van Morrison

Lord, if I ever needed someone, I need You
Lord, if I ever needed someone, I need You

See me through the daytime
(See me through the daytime)
And through the long, lonely night
Lead me through the darkness
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) And on into the light

To stand with me when I’m troubled
(Stand with me when I’m troubled)
And help me through my strife
At times, get so uncertain, I turn to You
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Turn to You in my young life

Lord, if I ever needed someone, I need You
Lord, if I ever needed someone, I need You

Someone to hold on to
(Someone to hold to)
And keep me from all fear
Someone to be my guiding light
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) And keep me ever dear

To keep me from all my selfishness
(Keep me from all selfishness)
To keepin’ me from all my sorrow
To lead me onto givingness
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) So I can see a new tomorrow

Lord, if I ever needed someone, I need You
Lord, if I ever needed someone, I need You

Someone to walk with
Oh, someone to hold by the hand
Someone to talk with
Someone to understand
Eh (yeah)
Yeah (yeah)To call on when I need You
(Call on when I need You)
And I need You very much
To open up my arms to You
(Feel Your tender touch) Feel Your tender touch

To feel it and to keep it
(Feel it and keep it)
Tuck it right here in my soul (yeah-yeah)
And care for it and keep it with me
(Never, never to grow old) Never to grow old

Lord, if I ever needed someone, I need You
Lord, if I ever needed someone, I need You
One more time again
Lord, if I ever needed, needed someone, I need You
Lord, oh, if I ever needed someone, I need You

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Van MorrisonIf I Ever Needed Someone

lyrics © Wb Music Corp., Caledonia Soul Music

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Maura O’Connell – Trouble in the Fields by Nanci Griffith from A Woman’s Heart #musicaware

Trouble in the Fields

2,260 viewsJun 22, 2018515ShareSaveMaura O’Connell – Topic 549 subscribers Provided to YouTube by Believe SAS Trouble in the Fields · Maura O’Connell A Woman’s Heart 2 ℗ Dolphin Released on: 1994-10-08 Composer: Griffith Composer: West Music Publisher: D.R Auto-generated by YouTube.

Trouble in the Fields

Nanci Griffith

Baby I know that we’ve got trouble in the fields
When the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yield
The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain
They leave our pockets full of nothing
But our dreams and the golden grain

Have you seen the folks in line downtown at the station
They’re all buying their ticket out and talking the great depression
Our parents had their hard times fifty years ago
When they stood out in these empty fields in dust as deep as snow

And all this trouble in our fields
If this rain can fall, these wounds can heal
They’ll never take our native soil
But if we sell that new John Deere
And then we’ll work these crops with sweat and tears
You’ll be the mule I’ll be the plow
Come harvest time we’ll work it out
There’s still a lot of love, here in these troubled fields

There’s a book up on the shelf about the dust bowl days
And there’s a little bit of you and a little bit of me
In the photos on every page
Now our children live in the city and they rest upon our shoulders
They never want the rain to fall or the weather to get colder

And all this trouble in our fields
If this rain can fall, these wounds can heal
They’ll never take our native soil
But if we sell that new John Deere
And then we’ll work these crops with sweat and tears
You’ll be the mule I’ll be the plow
Come harvest time we’ll work it out
There’s still a lot of love, here in these troubled fields

You’ll be the mule I’ll be the plow
Come harvest time we’ll work it out
There’s still a lot of love, here in these troubled fields

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Nanci Griffith / Rick West

Trouble in the Fields lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management

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Saw Doctor’s N17 – Tolu Makay and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

N17 – Tolu Makay and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra | NYE Countdown | RTÉ One

27,374 views•Jan 1, 2021

N17

The Saw Doctors

Well I didn’t see much future
When I left the Christian brothers school
So I waved it goodbye with a wistful smile
And I left the girls of Tuam
And sometimes when I’m reminiscing
I see the prefabs and my old friends
And I know that they’ll be changed or gone
By the time I get home again

And I wish I was on that N 17
(Stone walls and the grasses green)
Yes I wish I was on that N 17
(Stone walls and the grasses green)
Travelling with just my thoughts and dreams

Well the ould fella left me to Shannon
Was the last time I travelled that road
and as I turned left at Claregalway
I could feel a lump in my throat
As I pictured the thousands of times
That I travelled that well worn track
And I know that things would be different
If I ever decide to go back

And I wish I was on that N 17
(Stone walls and the grasses green)
Yes I wish I was on that N 17
(Stone walls and the grasses green)
Travelling with just my thoughts and dreams

Now as I tumble down highways
Or filthy overcrowded trains
There’s no one to talk to in transit
So I sit there and daydream in vain
And behind all these muddled up problems
Of living on a foreign soil
I can still see the twists and turns on the road
From the square to the town of the tribes

And I wish I was on that N 17
(Stone walls and the grasses green)
Yes I wish I was on that N 17
(Stone walls and the grasses green)
Travelling with just my thoughts and dreams

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Songs of Ireland – Gortnamona – Brendan O’Dowda #musicaware

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•Jun 15, 2008
 

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Brendan O’Dowda singing Gortnamona, written by Percy French.
Long, long ago in the woods of Gortnamona, I thought the birds were singing in the blackthorn tree; But oh, it was my heart that was singing, singing, singing, With the joy that you were bringing, oh my love, to me Long, long ago in the woods of Gortnamona, I thought the wind was sighing round the blackthorn tree; But oh, it was the banshee that was crying, crying, crying, And I knew my love was dying far across the sea. Now if you go through the woods of Gortnamona, You’ll hear the raindrops creeping through the blackthorn tree; But oh, it is the tears thatI am weeping, weeping, weeping, For the loved one that is sleeping far away from me. Long, long ago in the woods of Gortnamona, I thought the birds were singing in the blackthorn tree; But oh, it was my heart that was singing, singing, singing, With the joy that you were bringing, oh my love, to me
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Wild Mountain Thyme – Choral Scholars & Alumni (UCD Festival 2021 Remote Performance) #musicaware

Wild Mountain Thyme – Choral Scholars & Alumni (UCD Festival 2021 Remote Performance)
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•Premiered May 26, 2021



Choral Scholars of University College Dublin

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Wild Mountain Thyme (Arr. Eoin Conway) Performed as part of the UCD Festival 2021. 27-29 May 2021. Join the festival here: https://festival.ucd.ie/ Remote performance from Choral Scholars of University College Dublin, performing ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’, as part of the 2021 UCD Festival. Artistic Director: Desmond Earley Producers: Desmond Earley & Gavin Coll Soloists: Ciarán O’Donovan From our second album. ‘Perpetual Twilight’, available from iTunes, Apple Music, and Spotify now. http://hyperurl.co/PerpetualTwilight Video created by Gavin Coll Audio mixed & mastered by Kevin Whyms This video © Choral Scholars of University College Dublin Audio Recording ℗ Choral Scholars of University College Dublin Drone Footage by SKY-ART FPV Website: https://www.ucdchoralscholars.ie Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ucdchoralschoars Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/UCDChoral Instagram: @ChoralScholars
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