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

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(energetic music) 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."

(energetic music) (birds chirping) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (singers singing in Irish) (singers continue singing in Irish) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (singers singing in Irish) (singers continue singing in Irish) (singers continue singing in Irish) (energetic music continues) (singers singing in Irish) (singers continue singing in Irish) (singers continue singing in Irish) (energetic music) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (singers singing in Irish) (airy music) (airy music continues) (singer singing in Irish) (singer singing in Irish) (singers singing in Irish) (singers singing in Irish) (singers singing in Irish) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (singers singing in Irish) (singers continue singing in Irish) (singers continue singing in Irish) (energetic music) (energetic music continues) (energetic music continues) (birds chirping) (drumsticks clicking) ♪ Where great appetites comes to feast ♪ ♪ Where woman and beast make peacefully in sacrifice ♪ ♪ No flesh is wasted ♪ No rest for the young who sinfully free are forced to work ♪ ♪ And no place for old men but home ♪ ♪ A child has come to be born ♪ Where the wanderer comes to seat ♪ ♪ Where we must know ourselves in falseness and in truth ♪ ♪ And minds come finally to seat ♪ ♪ Where the rotted fruits have passed ♪ ♪ Dark hills on promised land ♪ A child is born ♪ Consumes itself away into decay and to decay ♪ ♪ Where strangers at the end of days ♪ ♪ Come to meet an honest fate ♪ Where home ♪ Green glows the sky ♪ In jealous promise and temperate (indistinct) ♪ ♪ Green the grass is, who sacrifice their flowers ♪ ♪ At first gust ♪ Gentle tides, children come and go to count the hours ♪ ♪ Aged things grow young beneath skin and outgrown glens ♪ ♪ Bowed heads see futures and points of the needle ♪ ♪ The demon with two heads does not know it from itself ♪ ♪ Consumes itself away into decay and to decay ♪ ♪ Where great appetites come to feast ♪ ♪ A purge of mutant fishes rots upon the surface ♪ ♪ Where the wanderer comes to rest.

♪ ♪ And lonely strangers come to beach ♪ ♪ At the end of days, everything impossible is building ♪ ♪ Building, building, building ♪ A vision of unto the bed comes a singing army ♪ ♪ From the heads of the ragged cliffs ♪ ♪ Where I can see America ♪ And everything is possible at mohair ♪ ♪ Or it seems like possibility ♪ Because the crest of a wave untouched is then unmade ♪ ♪ From across the beach of mist and stony desert vision ♪ ♪ The beautiful things ascend and descend ♪ ♪ In heart bending rhythms ♪ The phantom isle it shows and my heart is breaking open ♪ ♪ The unit will be unified again ♪ ♪ Everything possible is building ♪ ♪ A child is born with discarded wishes on her skin ♪ ♪ A deity we must know what this means ♪ ♪ And from the sea of boiling wave we clean the demon's face ♪ ♪ If that is what it be, the child, a beast ♪ ♪ It walks and talks and it bleeds for us ♪ ♪ These times are streaked with the blood of children ♪ ♪ The unit will be unified again ♪ ♪ And everything possible is building, building ♪ ♪ Where the wanderer comes to cease ♪ ♪ And lonely strangers come to beach ♪ ♪ At the end of days, and minds come finally to a sea ♪ ♪ Everything impossible is building ♪ ♪ Building, everything impossible is building ♪ (warm music) ♪ I've never seen wrists so thin ♪ ♪ I've never seen your hair without the curls ♪ ♪ That you put in ♪ Your eyes flutter while you talk about ♪ ♪ The places that you've lived ♪ But Dublin's different now and you miss your best friend ♪ ♪ You say she's waiting ♪ I sit at the edge of the bed ♪ Baby, I'll pray for you if you pray for me ♪ ♪ The radio's on, but the signal's weak ♪ ♪ Oh, please, keep talking ♪ And I'll keep listening ♪ I've not been so good at visiting ♪ ♪ Regretful now that time is always slipping ♪ ♪ You'd tell me I'll regret many things ♪ ♪ This will be the l5ast of it so embrace ♪ ♪ Life's ch5cks and balances ♪ You hold my hand ♪ I make wordless promises ♪ Baby, I'll pray for you if you pray for me ♪ ♪ The radio's on, but the signal's weak ♪ ♪ Oh please, keep talking ♪ And I'll keep listening ♪ She says she loves to hear the birds sing ♪ ♪ In the back of her flower garden ♪ ♪ She says she loves to hear the birds sing ♪ ♪ It's what keeps her going ♪ When the day is dying ♪ When the day is dying ♪ When the day is dying ♪ Baby, I'll pray for you if you pray for me ♪ ♪ The radio's on, but the signal's weak ♪ ♪ Oh please, keep breathing ♪ And I'll keep listening (rapid music) ♪ And as a river flows, well you and I are made of water ♪ ♪ Surging into history, universal mystery ♪ ♪ All in all we cannot choose ♪ The life that we were given, so we move ♪ ♪ Across the land to sky to sea ♪ ♪ Looking for more than we were offered ♪ ♪ Are we not allowed ♪ Are you still where your mother pushed you out ♪ ♪ I doubt that this is true ♪ If you can move then I will too ♪ ♪ To, to, to the land, to the sea ♪ ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ To the land, to the mouth of the sea ♪ ♪ To the land, to the sea ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ Overcoming mystery, overcoming mystery, oh ♪ (intense music) ♪ What are you scared of ♪ Aren't you brave enough ♪ To pave a basic decency for humankind ♪ ♪ A baby lost its family, lost its life ♪ ♪ Don't turn your face away ♪ Don't tell me borders are for ♪ ♪ Jobs and civic order ♪ When I know you see it differently ♪ ♪ You want your palate white, white ♪ ♪ Cleaned ♪ Walk a mile, walk 2000 miles ♪ Walk 3000 miles, you ♪ To the land, to the sea ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ To the land, to the mouth of the sea ♪ ♪ To the land, to the sea ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ To a land, to a land ♪ (indistinct) to the land, to the sea ♪ ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ Overcoming mystery, overcoming mystery ♪ ♪ Overcoming mystery, overcoming mystery ♪ ♪ Overcoming mystery, overcoming mystery ♪ ♪ Overcoming mystery, overcoming mystery ♪ ♪ Overcoming mystery, overcoming mystery ♪ ♪ Overcoming mystery, oh (intense music) ♪ The stream, (indistinct) (music continues) ♪ To sea (intense music continues) ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety, to safety ♪ ♪ To safety, to safety, to safety, to safety ♪ (soft music) ♪ Irene, goodnight Irene ♪ Irene, goodnight ♪ Goodnight, Irene, sleep tight Irene ♪ ♪ I'll see you in my dreams ♪ Last Saturday night I got married ♪ ♪ Me and my wife settled down ♪ Now me and my wife have parted ♪ ♪ Let's take a little stroll downtown.

♪ ♪ Irene, goodnight Irene ♪ Irene, goodnight ♪ Goodnight, Irene, sleep tight Irene ♪ ♪ I'll see you in my dreams ♪ Sometimes I live in the country ♪ ♪ And sometimes I live in town ♪ And sometimes I get a great notion ♪ ♪ To jump in the river and drown ♪ ♪ Irene, goodnight Irene ♪ Irene, goodnight ♪ Goodnight, Irene, sleep tight Irene ♪ ♪ I'll see you in my dreams ♪ I love Irene, god knows I do ♪ I'll run until the seas run dry ♪ ♪ But if I ever Irene turns her back on me ♪ ♪ I'll take morphine and die ♪ Irene, goodnight Irene ♪ Irene, goodnight ♪ Good night Irene, sleep tight Irene ♪ ♪ I'll see you in my dreams ♪ I asked your mother for you ♪ But she said you were too young ♪ ♪ Now I wish I had never seen your face ♪ - [Announcer] Funding for this program was provided by TradFest.

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