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Mostrando las entradas etiquetadas como Chieftains

The women of Ireland

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  Canción  compuesta por Seán Ó Riada (1931–1971) en 1960, sobre letra del poeta irlandés Peadar Ó Doirnín (1704–1796). Aparece en la película Barry Lyndon de 1975 dirigida por Stanley Kubrick. 

The morning dew

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  Tema sobrio e insistente de The Chieftains de 1973

Fantasia Gaelach No. 1, de Potter

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   Fantasia Gaelach Nº 1 de 1952. compuesta por Archibald Potter sobre un tema popular irlandes con diversos nombres. Lo traigo en la versión de The Chieftains y Lisa Hannigan, bajo el título   My Lagan Love . Letra 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 through 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

Coast of Malabar

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  Canción tradicional irlandesa escrita en 1897 por Frederick E. Weatherly y Stephen Adams.  Malabar es una región de la costa suroeste de la India, conocida por el comercio de especias. Esta versión pertenece al disco The Long Black Veil, posiblemente uno de los mejores de 1995. Letra Far away across the ocean Underneath an Indian star Dwells a dark eyed lonely maiden On the coast of Malabar In the harbor, where we anchored I can see her shy and sweet With a bunch of wine-red roses And the wild waves at her feet Oh fare thee well, my little dark eyed queen Fare thee well, my Indian star In my heart you'll live forever On the coast of Malabar "Come to me", I hear her calling Across the ocean, wild and far "Come to me again and love me On the coast of Malabar" And my thoughts keep ever turning To that far-off distant shore And the dark eyed girl who loved me But I'll see her never more Oh fare thee well, my little dark eyed queen Fare thee well, my Indian sta...

Carrickfergus

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  Canción popular irlandesa, con el nombre de la ciudad de Carrickfergus en el Condado de Antrim, Irlanda del Norte. Aquí en la versión de Van Morrison y The Chieftains Letra I wish I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygrand I would swim over the deepest ocean The deepest ocean for my love to find But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over Neither have I wings to fly If I could find me a handsome boatsman To ferry me over to my love and die My childhood days bring back sad reflections Of happy times spent so long ago My childhood friends and my own relations Have all passed on now like melting snow But I'll spend my days in endless roaming Soft is the grass, my bed is free Ah, to be back now in Carrickfergus On that long road down to the sea I'll spend my days in endless roaming Soft is the grass, my bed is free But I am sick now, and my days are numbered Come all you young men and lay me down