Tim O'Brien - Ireland's Green Shore (with Lyrics)

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This ballad is about the homeland and true love that is 'lost' forever. It is hauntingly beautiful. Tim O'Brien had it on his "The Crossing" album released in 1999 and also on the compilation album, "Absolute World". Del McCoury and Kathy Mattea help with the vocals on this song. Enjoy!
High powered guests include:
Paul Brady
Maura O'Connell
Kathy Mattea
Del McCoury
Altan
Jerry Douglas
Earl Scruggs
Frankie Gavin
Seamus Egan

LYRICS:
One evening for pleasure I rambled
On the banks of some cold purling stream
I set down on a bed of primroses
And I gently fell into a dream.
I dreamt that I saw a fair female
Her equal I never saw before
And I sighed for the loss of our country
As we stray there on Ireland's green shore

Her cheeks were like two bloomin' roses
Her teeth were like ivory so white
Her eyes shone like two sparkling diamonds
Or the stars on some cold frosty night.
She was dressed in the richist attire
And green was the mantle that she wore
All bound down with the hemlocks and the roses
As we stray there on Ireland's green shore

Transgression of joy I awoken
And found this was only a dream
That pretty fair female had fled me
And I longed to be slumbering again.
May the heavens above be her guardian
Though I know I'll never see her anymore
May the goldliest sunbeam shine upon her
As she lies sleeping on Ireland's green shore.

One evening for pleasure I rambled
On the banks of some cold purling stream
I set down on a bed of primroses
And I gently fell into a dream.