Dar Williams Ireland Lyrics

Ireland Lyrics

When the morning mist is rising

And the Hudson nearly blue

With the
branches all a' blowing

And the sun comes sifting through

I stare
with homesick wonder

For my thoughts all turn to you

And my memory
fills with deeper greens and blues

And Ireland is always in the news



I called your struggle useless

And my home a battlefield

And I cursed the hope of moving

I left you all behind me

Crying
that your fate was sealed

But the anger not the love here I did lose

And Ireland is always in the news



But now I'm having
nightmares

For the picture will not fade

Of one hundred black
umbrellas

Shining in a great parade

I guess I had it coming

It's a cold hard price I paid

For yes I did choose

To find my
brother's funeral in the news



So don't you get your hopes up

But I think I'm coming home

For maybe there'll be freedom

With
one more shoulder to that stone

I may end up a martyr

But I will
not end alone

Oh your are a family that I can't refuse

Oh Ireland
you're dying in the news