The Tide Flows Into Miltown-Tim O'Brien

[ti:The Tide Flows Into Miltown] [ar:Tim O'Brien] [al:Two Journeys] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.89]The Tide Flows Into Miltown - Tim O'Brien [00:03.49] [00:22.76]I walk into a corner bar [00:25.91] [00:26.50]It says Lynch above the door [00:29.12] [00:29.91]I had just arrived in Miltown to frolic there once more [00:35.94] [00:37.03]I see a Cavan man expatriot [00:40.13]Who now resides in old Oslo [00:43.00] [00:43.65]And he's holdin' to an old friend's hand [00:47.00]As his mate sings loud and slow [00:54.25] [00:55.04]When they're done we reminisce [00:57.15] [00:57.79]On Shetland back in ninety seven [01:00.57] [01:01.39]Where we met aboard a ferry bound [01:04.69]For five days of folk heaven [01:09.05] [01:09.76]Siobahn and John start jiggin [01:11.99] [01:12.55]Push and pulls from box and bow [01:16.28]And Peter reaches for his drum to punctuate the flow [01:22.77] [01:23.37]And the tide flows into Miltown [01:27.63] [01:28.31]They come from far and near [01:31.81]The tide flows into Miltown [01:37.19]This time every year [01:41.52] [01:50.36]I sit next to two I've known [01:53.43]Since I first came of age [01:56.56]Each Tuesday night in Pigtown [01:59.27] [01:59.87]We'd play from O'Niell's page [02:04.19] [02:04.72]We raise our jars it's July fourth [02:08.19]So I guess they're Yankees still [02:12.39]Though they've moved back to Cork now [02:15.70]Up Military Hill [02:19.77]And the tide flows into Miltown [02:24.82]We come from far and near [02:28.17] [02:28.71]The tide flows into Miltown [02:33.23]This time every year [02:36.62] [03:15.49]I stayed this time on Spanish Point [03:18.33]With a Nashville guy I know [03:20.90] [03:21.48]You can swim' in quiet water there [03:24.70]In the tide pools down below [03:28.75] [03:29.80]But there were too many toasts to raise [03:33.14]To many tunes to play [03:35.58]I only saw that coast while walking home [03:39.84]In the dawning of the day [03:45.62] [03:46.18]I've seen these folks in Donegal [03:49.03]New York and Tennessee [03:52.80]Since a fleagh in seventy six made a believer out of me [04:01.03]James Kelly made a point back then [04:03.63]Said "what's the point of sleepin' [04:06.19] [04:06.99]There'll be time for that [04:08.27]When we get done with the company we're keepin'" [04:13.66]And the tide flows into Miltown [04:17.96]We come from far and near [04:22.39]The tide flows into Miltown [04:26.21]This time every year [04:30.08]And the tide flows into Miltown [04:34.10]Smiles and tunes and tears [04:37.55]The tide flows into Miltown [04:41.97]I bring the wife and kids next year