The Irish Girl-Mary Chapin Carpenter/Lúnasa

[00:00.939] [00:14.461] I walked on a northern shore [00:19.505] Where the sandywort sped on before the ocean's blast [00:27.089] The grass ran like lemmings for the dune's high edge [00:33.746] And I thought it meant like the grass [00:39.639] We bend in the driving gale [00:45.174] And scarcely paused to think what makes the wind so strong [00:52.042] Or if there's a refuge from the driver's flag [00:59.331] But then I heard the saddest song [01:04.728] Of the Irish Girl [01:10.433] The Irish Girl [01:15.893] [01:18.792] Her eyes through a sparkling red [01:23.995] Like raindrops on a laurel when the moon appears [01:31.273] She sang of her sorrow through the stinging spread [01:37.671] And through the sweeter brine, the salt of tears [01:43.986] I weep for the lost of a love [01:49.037] Who's gone brooding now and silent as a standing stone [01:55.984] Two sides of a coin we rolled a battered roll [02:03.027] But in time he chose to leave alone [02:08.939] His Irish Girl [02:14.447] His Irish Girl [02:20.333] [03:16.267] I touched her and spoke my name [03:21.189] For it seems she didn't know me for the song she sang [03:28.537] She said, oh I know your face but here's the shame [03:34.922] For though I knew the boy, who knows the man [03:43.511] And I wept who might turn for the fool [03:49.296] Who never saw the joys that make a blind man smile [03:56.615] Seeking his fortune while the brightest jewel [04:03.397] Was within his reach all the while [04:09.148] The Irish Girl [04:14.555] His Irish Girl [04:19.920]