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- Collection: New Songs written to old Celtic Melodies
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In Winter Dawn
Author: Dave Barron
Singer: Dave Barron
In winter dawn in years long gone
Our forefathers adored the sun,
Druids offered gifts to golden Fionn
So crops might grow and male babes come.
Then Patrick came and changed our ways;
Replaced the gods of older days.
He fanned a fire up high…
Our forefathers adored the sun,
Druids offered gifts to golden Fionn
So crops might grow and male babes come.
Then Patrick came and changed our ways;
Replaced the gods of older days.
He fanned a fire up high…
A Civil War Lament
Author: Tom Williams, Taghmon
The song was passed from the Wexford singer, Paddy Berry, to Tony Malone
The Keepers of the Flame
(Air: The Bantry Girl’s Lament)
Author: Dave Barron
Long, long ago ancestral lore was passed on orally;
The spark to light the Cultural Fire was lit in family
And local neighbours and the clan, all warmed to that same Flame
And so all came to act the same, all Keepers of the Flame.
Ár gcultúr…
The spark to light the Cultural Fire was lit in family
And local neighbours and the clan, all warmed to that same Flame
And so all came to act the same, all Keepers of the Flame.
Ár gcultúr…