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An Old Irish Song

from An Irish Life by Tommy Keyes

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lyrics

They’ve boarded the door, there’s a hole in the floor
The windows are broken, the blackboard fell down
If you walk in the garden or stand in the yard
You’ll listen all day but you won’t hear a sound
Where are the voices of children at play?
They used to be here but they’ve all gone away
But trapped in the trees, sometimes freed by the breeze
The echoes remain of an old Irish song
Báidín Fheilimí d’imigh go Gabhla, Báidín Fheilimí is Feilimí ann.
Báidín Fheilimí d’imigh go Gabhla, Báidín Fheilimí is Feilimí ann

She goes for a walk and she stops for a talk
A little boy tells her she must be a Queen
With her elegant air and her silvery hair
And crystal clear tone of the teacher she’s been
She sits at her keyboard and fingers the notes
And softly she plays like she’s raising the ghosts
Of the years that have passed since she stood in the class
Teaching the children an old Irish song.

Felim’s afloat in his beautiful boat
He’s sailing for Tory but the sea is too strong
His boat will go down and poor Felim will drown
But his name will live on in an old Irish song.

credits

from An Irish Life, released July 29, 2016
Tommy Keyes: keyboards, vocals
Dick Farrelly: guitars, additional keybaards
Gerard Farrelly: bodhrán
Don Knox: violin
Maurice Mullen: flute, tin whistle
Ellen O’Mahony, Carla Ryan: vocals

Written by Tommy Keyes
Produced by Dick Farrelly
Engineered by Michael Heffernan at Sun Studios, Temple Lane, Dublin 2
Assistant Engineer: Michael Brady

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After an absence of nearly 40 years, Tommy Keyes returns with a stockpile of great songs that defy categorisation. Rock? Pop? “It’s 1970s singer-songwriter music”, he says, “because that’s what I am.”

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