Lovers Leap-John Spillane

[ti:Lovers Leap] [ar:John Spillane] [al:So Far So Good, Like - The Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lovers Leap - John Spillane [00:20.07]About a mile from mallow town [00:22.70]There is a place called lover's leap [00:24.87] [00:25.41]A beauty spot of great renown [00:27.57] [00:28.14]A jagged rock that rises steep [00:30.50] [00:31.12]A lonely cliff above the deep [00:33.97] [00:34.96]Blackwater [00:38.95] [00:40.44]The gentry planted all these trees [00:42.54] [00:43.15]The oak the beech and the lonely pine [00:45.95]And courting couples often please [00:48.20] [00:48.74]To wander there and take their time [00:51.04] [00:51.76]And breathe the beauty by the shining [00:54.74] [00:55.77]River [00:58.08] [01:01.07]About a hundred years ago [01:03.04] [01:03.60]Or so the local people tell [01:05.63] [01:06.28]Under a weight of great sorrow [01:09.05]A handsome courting couple fell [01:11.23] [01:12.18]To their doom inside the great [01:15.70]Blackwater [01:20.00] [01:21.60]Lover's leap [01:26.70] [01:29.33]Together in blissful peace [01:31.98]Forever in endless peace [01:35.90] [01:49.60]A catholic and protestant [01:52.45]Had fallen for each other's charms [01:54.87] [01:55.57]Their families would not consent [01:57.35] [01:57.94]They fled and sought each other's arms [02:00.33] [02:00.95]They sought each other's arms and fled [02:03.51] [02:04.36]And dived into their marriage bed [02:06.71] [02:07.44]Inside the cold [02:08.65] [02:09.41]Blackwater [02:11.75] [02:14.25]They reached the rocky height that night [02:16.38] [02:17.17]One last kiss one last embrace [02:19.94]They cried and held each other tight [02:22.59]Then stepping into endless space [02:25.34]They wandered out into the air [02:27.54] [02:28.14]And left this earth for ever more [02:30.56] [02:31.16]And reached the sad [02:33.78]Blackwater [02:35.95] [02:38.88]Their bodied wrapped in endless night [02:41.47]Their souls sailed on into the bright [02:44.21]Encircling stars and the caring moon [02:47.32]The sun shone down upon their love [02:49.78]From heaven's branches high above the great [02:55.26]Blackwater [02:57.88] [03:01.15]Lover's leap [03:07.78] [03:08.85]Together in blissful peace [03:11.22] [03:11.74]Forever in endless peace [03:14.94] [03:18.51]The priest he offered up the host [03:20.54] [03:21.19]The river offered up the moon [03:23.20] [03:23.98]And Jesus wept to see his name [03:26.20] [03:26.77]Divided in a crazy game [03:28.97] [03:29.49]And Mary sent an angel down [03:31.49] [03:32.14]Who wandered on through mallow town [03:34.64] [03:35.42]And reached the sad [03:37.52]Blackwater [03:41.55] [03:43.33]Lover's leap [03:49.74] [03:51.20]Together in blissful peace [03:53.78]Forever in endless peace [03:57.39] [04:01.54]Lover's leap [04:06.38] [04:08.75]Together in blissful peace [04:11.40]Forever in endless peace [04:15.66] [04:29.52]About a mile from mallow town [04:31.63] [04:32.23]There is a place called lover's leap [04:34.33] [04:34.99]A beauty spot of great renown [04:37.61]A jagged rock that rises steep [04:40.10] [04:40.84]A lonely cliff above the deep [04:44.01] [04:44.54]Blackwater