- [Announcer] Funding for this program was provided by TradFest.

(lively acoustic music) (lively acoustic music continues) (lively acoustic music continues) (lively acoustic music continues) (lively acoustic music continues) - [Announcer 2] Behold, "Ireland in Music".

(lively accordion playing) We'll be zipping around Ireland in the company of some of our finest musicians, filmed in some of our most beautiful places as we celebrate the musical mastery of our proud island of Ireland.

"Ireland in Music".

(lively accordion continues) (gentle acoustic music) (gentle acoustic music continues) (gentle acoustic music continues) (accordion playing gentle melancholy music) (gentle acoustic music continues) (gentle acoustic music continues) (gentle acoustic music continues) (acoustic music softens and tenses slightly) (acoustic music grows uplifting) (acoustic music continues) (acoustic music gently softens) (acoustic music continues) (acoustic music grows more intense) (acoustic music grows lively) (acoustic music continues) (acoustic music continues) (acoustic music continues) (acoustic music continues) (acoustic music ends in fiddle sting) (waves crashing) ♪ I dreamed that I was the night ♪ ♪ Dark and cold and creeping all over ♪ ♪ Everything in sight ♪ And I woke at the break of dawn ♪ ♪ With tears in my eyes ♪ I guess that's why they call it the morning ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm losing your love ♪ Oh God, please tell me ♪ I'm someone you're still dreaming of ♪ ♪ 'Cause it all feels so real ♪ And though I spend each day ♪ While it all fades away ♪ Put my heart on the page ♪ But you took it away ♪ Won't you take me away ♪ And if I were you ♪ I would say something ♪ Say something ♪ You usually do ♪ But you're quiet ♪ And it is so loud ♪ Won't you do something ♪ Do something ♪ Before I walk out ♪ If I leave, I'm never coming back ♪ ♪ I've given you everything I have ♪ ♪ And if there's nothing to be said ♪ ♪ Then take your body from this bed ♪ ♪ And when the morning's coming through ♪ ♪ But the night still talks to you ♪ ♪ Just think of what my love would do ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ Ooh ♪ Ooh ♪ Ooh (guitar strumming fades) (gentle guitar strumming) (gentle guitar strumming continues) ♪ Oh, so, McKenna ♪ Like prayer remembers to sit ♪ Same time each day ♪ Waiting for the train on the tracks in Oaghley ♪ ♪ She never will return from work ♪ ♪ Again ♪ Seamstress of Nenagh ♪ Find fabric and prints ♪ He would always say she could design to go far some day ♪ ♪ And it sure would've been nice to try ♪ ♪ But they remain side by side ♪ Keep your love close ♪ Keep your love close ♪ Oh ♪ Oh ♪ So good to hear your voice ♪ After so long ♪ Hope you don't mind the cold ♪ Was sitting on a shore ♪ Just like the one that we lived by before ♪ ♪ And we never watched the waves fall ♪ ♪ No, we never ventured out all at ♪ ♪ Don't know what I wanted ♪ I have nothing to say ♪ Did I make a mistake, I did enjoy ♪ at day on the train ♪ And then never could come back again ♪ ♪ But you, and where do I begin to explain ♪ ♪ But I won't say its like grains of sand ♪ ♪ When you hold them too tightly in your hand ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ Keep your love close ♪ Keep your love close ♪ Oh ♪ Oh (soft acoustic music) ♪ The lilac haze of the hill ♪ Is married to mist and winter chill ♪ ♪ Sometimes, the weight of what's unseen ♪ ♪ Reminds me of being sixteen ♪ So tell me of all your plans ♪ Ooh la roux in sun on desert land ♪ ♪ The vintrails ♪ The blackbird mourns ♪ The hopes of children yet 'til be born ♪ ♪ The myths I make in my head ♪ Are light as pollen and dark as dread ♪ ♪ I rejoice in commonplace ♪ The humble act ♪ The low case ♪ The lilac haze of the hill ♪ Is married to mist and winter chill ♪ ♪ Sometimes, the weight of where I've been ♪ ♪ Propels me on to the unseen (soft string tone softly fades) (soft, slow piano playing) (birds softly chirping) (soft, dreamy piano continues) (Rónán singing in Irish) (group singing in Irish) (group continues singing in Irish) (group continues singing in Irish) (singer harmonizing) (group continues singing in Irish) (group continues singing in Irish) (group continues singing in Irish) (group continues singing in Irish) (group continues singing in Irish) (soft, dreamy piano continues) (distant birds chirping) ♪ Just like all the times before ♪ ♪ I find you staring at the door ♪ ♪ If I leave, will you love me more ♪ ♪ Well, I can't answer that, that ♪ ♪ And just like all those other men ♪ ♪ Whose heart is taken by the pen ♪ ♪ If I leave, will you write me then ♪ ♪ Well, I can't promise that, that ♪ ♪ And won't it hurt if I refuse ♪ ♪ To give you love you'd never lose ♪ ♪ Give you love you'd never use ♪ ♪ I can answer that, that ♪ And won't it hurt if I resist ♪ ♪ And take the love you'd never miss ♪ ♪ Hide the hand you'd never kiss ♪ ♪ I can promise that, that ♪ Ah-ah ♪ Ah-ah-ah ♪ Ah-ah ♪ Ah-ah-ah ♪ Paralyzed, though wide awake ♪ I give you love you'd never take ♪ ♪ Memories you will not make ♪ Inside that clever head, head ♪ ♪ Your sickness turned out to be ♪ ♪ All in your head and never me ♪ ♪ Tell me once more how you're free ♪ ♪ Let's put this to bed, bed ♪ Alone by the banks ♪ Of the dark rolling Danube ♪ Fair Adelaide roamed ♪ When the battle was o'er ♪ O where then, she cried ♪ Have you wandered, my true love ♪ ♪ And where do you wither ♪ Or bleed on the shore ♪ She wandered a while ♪ The tears, her eyes flooding ♪ Through the dead and the dying ♪ ♪ She walked near and far ♪ Till she found by a river ♪ All bleeding and dying ♪ By the light of the moon ♪ Her poor wounded huzzar ♪ From his bosom that heaved ♪ The last torrent was streaming ♪ ♪ And pale was his visage ♪ Deep, marked with a scar ♪ And dim were the eyes ♪ Most expressively beaming ♪ That had melted in love ♪ Had kindled in war ♪ How sad was poor Adelaide's heart at the sight ♪ ♪ How bitterly she wept for that victim of war ♪ ♪ Have you come then, he cried, ♪ ♪ This last sorrowful night ♪ For to cheer the lone heart ♪ Of your wounded huzzar (accordion playing soft, somber music) (soft, somber music continues) (soft, somber music continues) (soft, somber music continues) ♪ Thou shall live then, she cried ♪ ♪ Heaven's mercy relieving ♪ Each anguishing wound ♪ Shall forbid me to mourn ♪ Oh no, then he cried ♪ For my life fast is failing ♪ And no light of the moon ♪ Shall to Henry return ♪ Thou charmer of life ♪ Ever tender and true ♪ Take my love to my babes who await me afar ♪ ♪ Then his faltering tongue ♪ Could scarce bid her adieu, ♪ When he died in her arms ♪ Her poor wounded huzzar (soft, somber music gently fades) - [Announcer] Funding for this program was provided by TradFest.

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