Lament for the Curlew
Author: Dave Barron
Air: The Star of the County Down (slow version)
The song laments the extermination of nature, symbolised by the Curlew, by the actions of mankind.

Lament for the Curlew
Author: Dave Barron
Air: The Star of the County Down (slow version)
The song laments the extermination of nature, symbolised by the Curlew, by the actions of mankind.

LAMENT FOR THE CURLEW

I hear no more the lonesome cry
Of the curlew’s haunting call
In the quiet of dark starlight sky sky
Somewhere above my hall.

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She’s fallen victim, with her kind,
To mankind’s greed for MORE.
When all is gone, it’s then we’ll find
ENOUGH is more than MORE.

Where once she called out to her mate,
In bogs by Barrow’s shore,
The empty sky is now her fate;
The bogs are there no more.

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The bogs she shared with cock and teal
Are drained to make more crops;
Now there's only one great field:
No cover, gorse, or copse.

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The mountain marsh where once she roamed
With woodcock, snipe and hare
Now grows only Pine tree groves.
Dry ground beneath is bare.

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We've taken much of Flora now
From Nature's treasure trove:
The Fauna soon will follow now,
Then we'll be next to go.

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We've fallen victim with our kind
To our kind's greed for more;
When all is gone it's then we'll find
ENOUGH is MORE than MORE.