The Crossing Lyrics

Let me love as the crow flies Though we live in a maze Let me wake up each morning Like it's my only day Let me bring down this castle That I built long ago Let me tear off this ...Read Full Lyrics

One evening for pleasure I rambled On the banks of some cold purling stream I set down on a bed of primroses And I gently fell into a dream I dreamt that I saw a fair female Her eq...Read Full Lyrics

The heart is the fortune of all women kind They're always controlled, they're always confined Controlled by their parents until they are wives Then slaves to their husbands the res...Read Full Lyrics

Down in the willow garden Where me and my true love did meet It was there, we went a courting My love fell off to sleep I had a bottle of burgundy wine My true love, she did not k...Read Full Lyrics

Where are my mama and daddy? They came a long time before me Now, we've come on the steamship Atlantic From our home far across the stormy sea I have their letter in my pocket The...Read Full Lyrics

John Riley came from Galway town in the years of the Irish hunger And he sailed away to America when the country was much younger Now the place was strange and work was scarce And ...Read Full Lyrics

Now I make a living from a circuit I made Out of trial and error and gigs that I've played It might be the money or the town that it's in But mostly it's people make you come back ...Read Full Lyrics

A while ago I chanced to roam to the place my great grandad called home It wasn't that much I saw that day, but I learned I whole lot along the way I was goin' to Ireland retracing...Read Full Lyrics

My pathway leads into the west They say it never really ends These legs of mine weren't made to rest I let them take me where they send me wandering As long as I remember I've bee...Read Full Lyrics