Song For Ireland - Beautiful lyrics about falcons

[patsy6]

In addition to being a pefa fan, I play and sing traditional Irish music.  A few weeks ago I realized that a song I used to sing years ago, called Song for Ireland (by Phil & June Colclough), has some beautiful lyrics about falcons in its first and last verses.  Here are the lyrics to the entire song.

Walking all the day, near tall towers where falcons build their nests
Silver winged they fly, they know the call of freedom in their breasts
Saw black head against the sky
with twisted rocks that run down to the sea

Chorus:

Living on your western shore, saw summer sunsets, asked for more
I stood by your Atlantic sea and sang a song for Ireland

Talking all the day with true friends who try to make you stay
Telling jokes and news, singing songs to pass the night away
Watched the Galway salmon run
like silver dancing darting in the sun

Drinking all the day in old pubs where fiddlers love to play
Someone touched the bow, he played a reel that seemed so grand and gay
Stood on Dingle beach
and cast in wild foam we found Atlantic bass

Dreaming in the night I saw a land where no one had to fight
Waking in your dawn I saw you crying in the morning light
Lying where the falcons fly,
they twist and turn all in your rare blue sky

[Donna]

http://youtu.be/oRdDnpkR3AQ

That was awesome Patsy and I had to look it up!  Can't find the original by Phil & June, that was private but this is the next best.

[patsy6]

Thanks for posting the YouTube link, Donna.  Yes, the version I sing is Mary Black's (from when she was the lead singer with the group De Danann). 

[Donna]

Thanks for posting the YouTube link, Donna.  Yes, the version I sing is Mary Black's (from when she was the lead singer with the group De Danann).