The Kerry Dances-Finbar Wright

[ti:The Kerry Dances] [ar:Finbar Wright] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Kerry Dances - Finbar Wright [00:34.11]Oh the days of the Kerry dancing [00:37.43]Oh the ring of the piper's tune [00:39.38]Oh for one of those hours of gladness [00:42.69]Gone alas like our youth too soon [00:45.25] [00:45.80]When the boys began to gather [00:47.87]In the glen of a summer's night [00:49.43]And the Kerry piper's tuning [00:50.93]Made us long with wild delight [00:56.89]Oh to think of it [00:58.07] [00:58.75]Oh to dream of it [01:00.06]Fills my heart with tears [01:02.50]Oh the days of the Kerry dancing [01:04.38]Oh the ring of the piper's tune [01:06.38]Oh for one of those hours of gladness [01:08.57]Gone alas like our youth too soon [01:10.87]Was there ever a sweeter Colleen [01:17.14]In the dance than Eily More [01:19.14]Or a prouder lad than Thady [01:21.21]As he boldly took the floor [01:23.52]Lads and lasses to your places [01:25.46]Up the middle and down again [01:27.58]Ah the merry hearted laughter [01:29.96]Ringing through the happy glen [01:36.02]Oh to think of it [01:37.96]Oh to dream of it [01:39.52]Fills my heart with tears [01:43.21]Oh the days of the Kerry dancing [01:44.89]Oh the ring of the piper's tune [01:46.77]Oh for one of those hours of gladness [01:49.02]Gone alas like our youth too soon [01:57.29]Time goes on and the happy years are dead [02:04.47]And one by one the merry hearts are fled [02:11.98]Silent now is the wild and lonely glen [02:17.54]Where the bright glad laugh will echo ne'er again [02:26.61]Only dreaming of days gone by in my heart I hear [02:36.92]Loving voices of old companions [02:40.85]Stealing out of the past once more [02:45.11]And the sound of the dear old music [02:51.18]Soft and sweet as in days of yore [02:54.11]When the boys began to gather [02:57.30]In the glen of a summer's night [03:00.49]And the Kerry piper's tuning [03:03.87]Made us long with wild delight [03:10.93]Oh to think of it [03:13.30]Oh to dream of it [03:15.30]Fills my heart with tears [03:19.62]Oh the days of the Kerry dancing [03:21.55]Oh the ring of the piper's tune [03:24.06]Oh for one of those hours of gladness [03:28.68]Gone alas like our youth too soon