The Boys of Barr na Sraide. Danu

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County Kerry's Cahersiveen, on the Iveragh Peninsula, rises from the River Ferta up the slopes of Beenatee, a hill about the height of New York's Empire State Building. The hill overlooks the Atlantic from a distance of about 10 miles.

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[Danu's slightly modified lyrics, as slightly edited by YT.]

Oh the town it climbs the mountain and looks down on the sea,
In sleeping time or waking ‘tis there I long to be,
To walk again those kindly streets, the place my life began,
And the boys of Barr na Sráide went hunting for the wren.

With cudgels stout we roamed about to hunt the droleen [dreoilín].
We searched for birds in every furze from Litir [Letter] to Dooneen.
We danced for joy beneath the sky; life held no print or plan
For the boys of Barr na Sráide went hunting for the wren.

And when the hills were bleeding and the rifles they were aflame
To the rebel homes of Kerry the Saxon stranger came
But the ones who fought the Auxies and who beat the Black and Tan
Were the boys in Barr na Sráide who hunted for the wren.

BRIDGE
So here’s a health to them tonight, those lads who laughed with me
By the groves of Caragh [Cara] River or the slopes of Beenatee
John Dawley and Batt Andy and the Sheehans Con and Dan
Were the boys of Barr na Sráide who hunted for the wren.

But now they toil on foreign soil and they have gone their way
Deep in the heart of London or over in Broadway
When [And] I am left to sing their deeds and to praise them while I can,
to the boys [those boys] of Barr na Sráide who hunted for the wren

And when the wheel of life runs down and peace comes over me
Oh lay me down in that old town between the hills and sea
I’ll take my sleep in those green fields the place my life began
And the boys of Barr na Sráide went hunting for the wren.

OUTRO

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"Barr na Sráide" (Top Street or High Street) runs horizontally along Beenatee's slope through Cahersiveen, after which the route's name changes to "Old Road." The song pictures an ideal path for fun-loving boys. The song by the poet Sigerson Clifford relates the local St. Stephen's Day tradition of hunting wrens (dreoilíns) to the Irish War of Independence. The boys in the poem refer to an extended group of rural youths living in Kerry and Limerick counties, who a few years later fought to drive the British from Ireland.

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Correct Lyrics of "The Boys of Barr na Sráide"
by Sigerson Clifford

Oh the town it climbs the mountain and looks out upon the sea
And sleeping time or waking, ‘tis there I long to be
To walk again that kindly street, the place where life began
And the Boys of Barr na Sráide went hunting for the Wran.

With cudgels stout we roamed about to hunt the Droilín
We searched for birds in every furze from Letter to Dooneen
We sang for joy beneath the sky, life held no print or plan
And we Boys of Barr na Sráide, a-hunting for the Wran.

And when the hills were bleeding and the rifles were aflame
To the Rebel homes of Kerry, the Saxon stranger came
But the men who dared the Auxies and who beat the Black and Tan
Were the Boys of Barr na Sráide, a-hunting for the Wran.

And here’s a toast to them tonight, the lads who laughed with me
By the Groves of Carhan River or the slopes of Beenatee
John Dawley and Batt Andy, and the Sheehans Con and Dan
And the Boys of Barr na Sráide who hunted for the Wran.

And now they toil on foreign soil, where they have gone their way
Deep in the heart of London town or over in Broadway
And I am left to sing their deeds and praise them while I can
Those Boys of Barr na Sráide who hunted for the Wran.

And when the wheel of life runs down and peace comes over me
O lay me down in that old town between the hills and sea
I’ll take my sleep in those green fields the place my life began
Where the Boys of Barr na Sráide went hunting for the Wran.

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Local dialect evidently renders Caragh as Caran.

Rockin' pneumonia. Johnny Rivers

LONG INSTRUMENTAL INTRO
I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall
I wanna holler but the joint's too small
Young man rhythm got a hold of me too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu

Want some lovin' babe and that ain't all
I wanna kiss her but she's way too tall
Young man rhythm got a hold of me too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu

Wanna squeeze her but I'm way too low
I would be runnin' but my feets too slow
Young man rhythm got a hold of me too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu


LONGISH BREAK
I wanna squeeze her but I'm way too low
I would be runnin' but my feets too slow
Young man rhythm got a hold of me too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu

Baby comin' now I'm hurryin' home
I know she leavin' cause I'm takin' too long
Young man rhythm got a hold of me too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu

OUTRO
Nice instrumental run with fadeout

Sunshine Superman

INTRO

Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways
It'll take time, I know it but in a while
You're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style

'Cause I've made my mind up you're going to be mine

I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Everybody's hustlin' just to have a little scene
When I say we'll be cool I think that you know what I mean
We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when

I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine

[Optional:] Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind

'Cause I've made my mind up you're going to be mine

I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, that I can find

BREAK

Superman or Green Lantern ain't got a-nothin' on me
I can make like a turtle and dive for your pearls in the sea, yeah
A you-you-you can just sit there a-thinking on your velvet throne
'Bout all the rainbows a-you can a-have for your own

When you've made your mind up forever to be mine

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
I'll pick up your hand
I'll pick up your hand

Carters. Where Moses Stood

Crying Holy unto the Lord
Crying Holy unto the Lord
Oh in that day when the bells don't toll
Crying Holy unto the Lord

Crying Holy unto the Lord
           [Holy unto the Lord]
           [Holy unto the Lord]
Crying Holy unto the Lord
           [Holy unto the Lord]
           [Holy unto the Lord]

Oh, if I could, I surely would
Stand on the rock
(Praise God)
where Moses stood

BREAK

Sinners, run unto the Lord
Sinners, run unto the Lord
Now please don't let this harvest pass
And lose your soul at last

Crying Holy unto the Lord
           [Holy unto the Lord]
           [Holy unto the Lord]
Crying Holy unto the Lord
           [Holy unto the Lord]
           [Holy unto the Lord]

Oh, if I could, I surely would
Stand on the rock
(Praise God)
where Moses stood

SHORT BREAK

Crying Holy unto the Lord
Crying Holy unto the Lord
The four and twenty elders bowing all around the altar
Crying Holy unto the Lord

Crying Holy unto the Lord
           [Holy unto the Lord]
           [Holy unto the Lord]
Crying Holy unto the Lord
           [Holy unto the Lord]
           [Holy unto the Lord]

Oh, if I could, I surely would
Stand on the rock
(Praise God)
where Moses stood

OUTRO

Oh, if I could, I surely would
Stand on the rock
(Praise God)
where Moses stood

My Girl

I've got sunshine, on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May (ooh)
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?

My girl, my girl, my girl
Talkin' 'bout my girl, my girl
I've got so much honey, the bees envy me
I've got a sweeter song, than the birds in the trees

Well, I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl, my girl, my girl
Talkin' 'bout my girl, my girl
Ooh, ooh

Hey-hey-hey, hey-hey-hey
Ooh, ooh, yeah
I don't need no money (ooh), fortune, or fame
I've got all the riches, baby (ooh) one man can claim

Well, I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl, my girl, my girl
Talkin' 'bout my girl, my girl
(Talkin' 'bout my girl)

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
(whoa, whoa) with my girl
I've even got the month of May, with my girl
(talkin' 'bout my girl)
Talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout my girl (ooh)
Ooh, my girl (talkin' 'bout my girl)
That's all I can talk about is my girl (ooh)
Why don't you believe she's all my girl?
(Talkin' 'bout my girl)

The Guy

Lyrics for Julianne's Beatrice album

The lyrics for Julianne's album Beatrice are taken from transcripts of videos on her channel. These were generated by VideoHighlight.com. Inaccuracies are inevitable. The machine determined the line breaks.

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I'm Learning How to Swallow Pills
I'm learning how to swallow pills the chicken time I'll be half of who I am
today so my mom can sleep at night I on a Tuesday morning it trips straight
into my head I brought it into everything swamped the
stairs so I could swim into bed so I'm learning how to swallow pills there's a leak no one can find
they'll patch me up with pipe work I hope to join my friends outside
my books and my clothes all grow moldy even the ceiling fan started to droop
mom knocked sweet dreams but the rain in me became a pole inside of my mouth what do you do with the body that's been flooding the floors of the house the door stays locked forever [Music] [Applause]

To the Lighthouse
waiting a while it's dark at the bus stop winking arms to strangers and streets
[Music] man all of your silence make sense to me oh
[Music] I'll give you my code my cash in my Chapstick
write you a note with nothing to say secrets we share saying good night at the end of the day
I understand you'll make new plans but for now we
have each other When Love Comes to take your breath I'll store my name
to give to you grow pink with you together apart please
making you tea with two creams and sugar hanging your drawings upon the fridge
singer Beauty in mine right besided isn't it funny I'm glad you exist
I understand you'll make new plans but for now we
have each other love comes to take your breath a storm to give to you grow pink with you
together or apart

thank you Cody

Silly Girls
waiting a while it's dark at the bus stop winking arms to strangers and streets
[Music] man all of your silence make sense to me oh
[Music] I'll give you my code my cash in my Chapstick
write you a note with nothing to say secrets we share saying good night at the end of the day
I understand you'll make new plans but for now we
have each other When Love Comes to take your breath I'll store my name
to give to you grow pink with you together apart please
making you tea with two creams and sugar hanging your drawings upon the fridge
singer Beauty in mine right besided isn't it funny I'm glad you exist
I understand you'll make new plans but for now we
have each other love comes to take your breath a storm to give to you grow pink with you
together or apart

thank you Cody

Online Man Discovers His Salvific Vision of Beatrice
[Music] freaking lonely bedroom when she's not there and speak his mind make the keyboards player
mother mother only a woman could understand worship a picture of his Beatrice Chris
will put a good word in the comments closing on him in the trenches no one else has the guts to be so honest
she's alone but he's a soldier he's a prophet with a plan with his Beatrice to gaze upon he can
fight off any thread
[Music] moves are coming to cunning in the dark woods
[Music] Beatrice Burns her innocence this guide
is towards his martyr [Music] and writing on the entrance once
but not even hell's blue fire burns beneath the Weeping girl [Applause]
please hmm [Applause]

Perfect Thursdays
[Music] Victoria station of families rushed to catch their train her husband waits for her as she's digging through her things
and if I misplace my ticket her head bad luck with the machine would you be late to your appointment if it meant sitting next to me
on a perfect Thursday you'd wait for me on a perfect Thursday [Music]
just a perfect Thursday [Music] our future kids would all wear glasses
too big to fit their faces we'd pour songs into their Nostalgia and fill their heads with ancient myths if they had a dream outside your vision would
you paint their every scheme or would you stare until they hear just how ridiculous they've been
love you now about forever you love me now what about forever
I sit on the couch and move to the ground they're in their beds when they call your name European is busy on some paperwork that's never learned to wait
they'd be Bound to You Through Blood and home and promises you make I'm bound to you through all these perfect Thursdays
the love that I accept today will be written on their genes I hear their little laughter as the train leaves
oh I love you now what about forever
the trains are leaving now I hear their little laughter
[Music] [Applause]

Mom and Dad
I'm a little bit scared, but I'm still afraid. I'm a little scared, but I'm still afraid. I'm a little scared, but I'm still afraid.
Mom and dad fell into a rhythm last spring. It took a fall of getting used to a winter without me.
And it takes a couple hours now to drive from home to home. Takes just a second longer now to find where everything belongs.
Dad's clinging onto his camera, mother to stories and lions. I'm holding on to how small I am, we're all holding on to time.
There's a guest in my childhood bedroom, the clothes and the clothes that still fit. And dad doesn't run, all his miles anymore, mom walks with the scuffed her step.
I'm clinging onto my camera onto words that she left between lines. And my sibling's old onto how small I am, when the tape's back one last time.
All play be an omen basements, all so the cross wouldn't end. Until everything's moving a little too fast, for steps I just can't get enough.
I'm clinging onto my camera, mother to stories and lions.
Everyone fell into the rhythm last spring.

What a Lovely End, What a Lovely Life
It's the empty piece after a headache, a stillness deep enough to crawl inside.
You pull on the cold as you're walking home and to the last thing on your mind.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, what a lovely end, what a lovely life.

Thank you.

May Baby
my eyes come to the Midwest road signs on a highway in the woods you're driving slow here but the car
seems to fly I think it understood that you're up maybe maybe on my mind
and base too many months you say baby it's fine don't you think it's funny cruel got so high off the way the time
flew now I can't go back to the future with you lights [Music]
pull the traffic close it's getting later start to tell me of poets all the Mysteries you've known
and when I look out the window I can see us through the trees when I look out the window I swear you look at me
[Music] three fine don't you think it's fun and cool you first kissed me goodbyes if you
knew I can't go back to the future with you slow down please I can see the small
town lights flowing through the trees cause this what you meant when you swear you measured time that you'd rather hit
and run and sing it find
[Music]
I was just here maybe just a baby on your mind it makes too many months to make any other fun don't you think it's
funny and cruel [Music] prove them right down to the letter
and I just thought I was worth more to you spread through lemon stitches pass through
whenever I look out the window I still see us through the trees behind every Midwest Road sign taking you away from me

thank you

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