Voice Of Ages

The Chieftains Voice Of Ages Lyrics
1.Carolina Rua / Reel


Stories never end 'til you come to conclusions
Carolina Rua 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.

Now Carolina Rua has my heart and all I want to do's
Go down the windy road where my Carolina goes
Down the crooked road where Carolina goes to school
Mo Carolina Rua, do you love me?
Tell me true, tell me...

Standing on three queens, thought the game was over.
Then, from the blue, Carolina's at my shoulder
Laughter in her eyes and a smile that touches all the guys
I'm down the windy road where my Carolina goes
Down the crooked road where Carolina goes to school
Mo Carolina Rua, do you love me?
Tell me true, tell me...

Oh Carolina rua has my heart and all I want to do's
Go down the windy road where my Carolina goes
Down the crooked road where Carolina goes to school
Mo Carolina Rua, do you love me?
Tell me true, tell me...

Oh Carolina, Carolina
Do you love me?
Oh, tell me true
Carolina


2.Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies


Come all ye fair and tender ladies
Take warning how you court your men
They're like a star on a summer morning
They first appear and then they're gone

They'll tell to you some loving story
They'll make you think they love you well
And away they'll go and court some other
And leave you there in grief to dwell

I wish I was on some tall mountain
Where the ivy rocks are black as ink
I'd write a letter to my false true lover
Whose cheeks are like the morning pink

Oh love is handsome, love is charming
Love is pretty while it's new
But love grows cold as love grows old
And fades away like morning dew

Come all ye fair and tender ladies
Take warning how you court your men
They're like a star on a summer morning
They first appear and then they're gone
They first appear and then they're gone


3.Pretty Little Girl


Pretty little girl with a blue dress on
Pretty little girl with a blue dress on
Pretty little girl with a blue dress on
Stole my mule and away she's gone.

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Swing that girl with the blue dress on

Pretty little girl with a blue dress on
Pretty little girl with a blue dress on
Pretty little girl with a blue dress on
Stole my mule and away she's gone.

Walked out that door in quiet shame
Got no one but myself to blame.


4.Down In The Willow Garden


Down in the willow garden
Where me and my true love did meet,
It was there we were courtin',
My love fell off to sleep.

I had a bottle of burgundy wine,
My true love she did not know.
It was there I murdered that dear little girl
Down on the banks below.

I drew my saber through her,
It was a bloody knife,
I threw her into the river,
It was an awful sight.

My father often told me
That money would set me free
If I would murder that poor little girl
Whose name was Rose Connelly.

Now he stands at his cabin door,
Wiping his tears from his eyes,
Gazing on his own dear son,
Upon the scaffold high.

My race is run beneath the sun,
The devil is waiting for me,
For I did murder that dear little girl
Whose name was Rose Connelly.


5.Lily Love


Down, down by the sea, there is a crown of daisies
High, high on a hill, my little lily love
West wind in your hair, tied up in golden daisies
She's chasing you down, my little lily love

You hide and seek high and low
In every corner of my soul
I almost hear the sound of your heart beating
Oh, like it's my own, my little lily love

You hide and seek every day
You just get farther away

What, what kind of world
Would take a sweet wild flower
And pull it up from the ground
My little lily love

Oh, down by the sea, there is a crown of daisies
I'll never forget my little lily love


6.Lark In The Clear Air / Olam Punch


7.My Lagan Love


Where Lagan stream sings lullaby
There blows a lily fair
The twilight gleam is in her eye
The night is on her hair
And like a love-sick lennan-shee
She has my heart in thrall
Nor life I owe nor liberty
For love is lord of all.

And often when the beetle's horn
Hath lulled the eve to sleep
I steal unto her shieling lorn
And thru the dooring peep.
There on the cricket's singing stone,
She spares the bogwood fire,
And hums in sad sweet undertone
The songs of heart's desire

Nor life I owe nor liberty
For love is lord of all.
For love is lord of all.


8.When The Ship Comes In


Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin'
Like the stillness in the wind
Before the hurricane begins
The hour when the ship comes in

Oh, the seas will split
And the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shakin'
And the tide will sound
And the winds will pound
And the morning will be a-breakin'

Oh the fishes will laugh
As they swim out of the path
And the seagulls they'll be smilin'
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand
The hour that the ship comes in

And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they are spoken
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And be buried at the bottom of the ocean

A song will lift,
As the mainsail shifts
And the boat drifts out onto the shoreline
And the sun will respect
Every face on the deck
The hour that the ship comes in

And the sands will roll
Out a carpet of gold
For your weary toes to be a-touchin'
And the ship's wise men
Will remind you once again
That the whole wide world is watchin'

Oh the foes will rise
With the sleep still in their eyes
And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin'
But they'll pinch themselves and squeal
And they'll know that it's for real
The hour when the ship comes in

And they'll raise their hands
Sayin' 'We'll meet all your demands'
But we'll shout from the bow 'Your days are numbered'
And like the pharaoh's triumph
They'll be drownded in the tide
Like Goliath they'll be conquered


9.School Days Over


Schooldays over, come on then John,
Time to be gettin' your pit boots on
On with your sark and moleskin trousers,
It's time you were on your way
Time you were learning the pitman's job
And earning the pitman's pay

Come on then Jim, it's time to go,
Time you were working down below
Time to be handling a pick and a shovel
You start at the pits today
Time you were learning the collier's job
And earning the collier's pay

Come on then Dai, it's almost light,
Time you were off to the anthracite
The morning mist is on the valley,
It's time you were on your way
Time you were learning the miner's job
And earning the miner's pay

Schooldays over, come on then John,
Time to be gettin' your pit boots on
On with your sark and moleskin trousers,
It's time you were on your way
Time you were learning the pitman's job
And earning the pitman's pay


10.Frost Is All Over

What would you do if the kettle boiled over?
What would I do but to fill it again
What would you do if the cows eat the clover?
What would I do but to set it again
The praties are dug and the frost is all over
Katy lie over close to the wall
How would you like to be married to a solider?
Katy lie over close to the wall

What would you do if you married a solider?
What would I do only follow his gun
What would you do if he died on the ocean?
What would I do only marry again
The praties all boil and the herrings are roasted
Katy lie over close to the wall
You to be drunk and I to be sober
Katy lie over close to the wall

What would you do if the kettle boiled over?
What would I do but to fill it again
What would you do if the cows eat the clover?
What would I do but to set it again
The praties are dug and the frost is all over
Katy lie over close to the wall
How would you like to be married to a solider?
Katy lie over close to the wall


11.Peggy Gordon


O Peggy Gordon, you are my darling
Come sit you down upon my knee
And tell to me the very reason
Why I am slighted so by thee

I'm so deep in love that I can't deny it
My heart lies smothered in my breast
But it's not for you to let the world know it
A troubled mind can find no rest

I leaned myself on a cask of brandy
It was my fancy, I do declare
For when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
Wishing Peggy Gordon was there

O Peggy Gordon, you are my darling
Come sit you down upon my knee
And tell to me the very reason
Why I am slighted so by thee

I wished I was in a lonesome valley
Where womankind cannot be found
And the pretty small birds do change their voices
And every moment a different sound

O Peggy Gordon, You are my darling
Come sit you down upon my knee
And tell to me the very reason
Why I am slighted so by thee


12.Hard Times Come Again No More


Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
While we all sup sorrow with the poor.
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears,
Oh, hard times, come again no more.
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Oh, hard times, come again no more.

While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay.
There are frail forms fainting at the door.
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say.
Oh, hard times, come again no more.
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Oh, hard times, come again no more.

There's pale drooping maiden who toils her life away
With a worn heart, whose better days are o'er.
Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day,
Oh, hard times, come again no more.
'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave
'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
Oh, hard times come again no more

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Oh, hard times, come again no more.
Oh, hard times, come again no more.


13.Chieftains Reunion


14.The Chieftains In Orbit


15.Lundu